Rent Mile 22 (2018)

Action all the way - Mile 22 review by CP Customer

Bored of pretentious or serious action films which seem to have very little action in them? If so this could be for you.

Loads of action, car chases, gun fights and fisticuffs!! Add to that a good bit of needless swearing and some gore, awesome!!

Mike Wahlberg is great and Iko Uwais (that fella from the movie The Raid) is awesome and has some great fight scenes.

Interesting from start to finish with very little needless over emotional/sentimental rubbish they usually shoe horn in.

Great stuff!!!

Milestone (?) 22 - Mile 22 review by CP Customer

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I think the casting for the lead role in this film - was a joke. Along with mumbled, pointless rhetoric from the script and Mark Wahiberg, it was very boring and over complicated chat for such a simple plot. The action was really exceptional and very realistic.... except for the way o/t and far too much martial arts, which gave the film a 'Jacki Chan' feel. What a shame, the action far outshone any acting/script. Worth a watch.

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Dismal - Mile 22 review by CP Customer

Dismal script, dismal direction, dismal Mark Wahlberg performance who seemed to be bored with the whole thing. I hope he's not following the same path as Bruce Willis and Nicholas Cage, acting by numbers to supplement his pension.

Great movie - Mile 22 review by CS

This is non stop action and makes you hold your breath on occasions. Bit gruesome and bloody but that's the name of the game.

Good storyline and gripping edge of the seat stuff.

I enjoyed it.

Reasonably engaging film - Mile 22 review by JRo

Whilst not outstanding this is a good action film, with some pretty strong sequences, quite edge of the seat at times and a great twist to the story. We'll worth a look.

A dire, abrasive & terribly edited film with horrible characters and rubbish script - Mile 22 review by TB

When Mark Wahlberg & Peter Berg first started their collaboration, the results were spectacular. Lone Survivor was a masterclass in tension-building, incredible action and the amazing true story of an American soldier who was trapped & wounded being cared for by what most people regarded as the enemy. Then Deepwater Horizon was made, with a massive budget due to the success of Lone Survivor. This was in every way a masterpiece, building on everything that had started with the previous film. The stunts, script and look of the film perfect, with Wahlberg anchoring everything with his amazing performance.

After that, things started to get a bit wobbly. Patriots Day, whilst again mining a real-life tragedy for the story, was notable for its lack of true quality after the previous works of perfection. But it was still great in parts and every collaboration has a mis-fire, especially when the bar is so high. But compared to this, Patriots Day is Citizen Kane in every way. 

Mile 22 is a genuinely terrible film, total garbage, but loud and obnoxious with a really nasty streak running through it. Wahlberg plays James Silva, who the film tells us, from a very small child had an enormous IQ and all-round lightening-fast reactions. He was then enlisted into the military and rose to the top. He is also an absolute arsehole in every way: confrontational, rude, threatening, belittling and demeaning. Just imagine all the worst traits of Dignam from The Departed turned up to 11. But the film also feels that the best way to portray Silva is frantic, almost epileptic-style frenzied cutting and close-ups. All this does, within the first 10 minutes, is make you hate the film and realise that you have a very long watching experience ahead of you. 

And the worst part about all of this is that everything that you felt Berg & Wahlberg worked so hard to achieve in the previous 3 films has been totally ruined and destroyed in one fell swoop. There is not one element of this film that is likeable, competent or enjoyable. If it hadn’t have said Berg’s name in the credits/I’d gone in and watched this movie cold, I would have refused to believe it was made by him. 

And there are so many missed opportunities. After his incredible work on The Raid, Iko Uwais is probably the hottest actor/action star who does his own stunts working in films today (who are his age.) His ability to craft and act in these scenes is in the same league as Jackie Chan and Jet Li. And to be fair, in this film he is the only one who manages to emerge with any type of dignity. But even so, he is absolutely wasted and worse than that, all the stunts he is involved in are shot & edited so badly, you can’t see what’s going on. Every fight/hand-to-hand combat scene is just cut cut cut cut cut cut cut. You cannot tell what’s happening, and instead you are left wondering who the hell is in charge of quality control and how did this get cleared to be released. 

By the time you get to the end, you are left with a headache and in my case, a sadness that a collaboration which had produced so many great films before had managed to, in one film, totally desecrate all that brilliance and good will.