Good start, but then it gets ruined

disgusting, overrated, pointless

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Well written story, but for some that I have talked with the say way the storyline was developed made it confusing. One does need to pay attention to many details, this can be difficult in this fast paced film. Some of the action scenes were unrealistic(people with tactical training will understand why) as such optimistic outcomes are far from reality. All in all good acting, and worth the watch.

Mile 22Mile 22 is a plot driven mind-numbing action feature with an agenda of an "in and out" missions that all goes horribly and expectedly wrong. Wahlberg's last few unstable features corners him to shake Berg's magic hat and draw out the card from it but unfortunately this time, it isn't the card that anyone was seeking for, not even the makers. It inherently gets difficult to rub on a genre that is already almost explored in each way, and addition to that when you feed the audience a wafer thin concept and expects them to be blown away by the blazing barrels; it's a bit much. Not only does the feature surfs around the surface, the characters that it forcibly installs is just pathetically one-dimensional. One of the primary reason why it fails on levels, is its antagonist, which is not kept under any shade but is just non-existent, leaving the audience with the stakes that are all hoax and all distraction. The anticipated twists and turns which are mundane in such genres, is so independent from any of the incidents occurred in the feature, that it nullifies itself; the viewers couldn't care less. It doesn't have any circle that comes around or makes sense, nor any arc or gist to stand on the self-created slippery ground. As much as exciting it is to experience sharp sound effects, its heightened version latter, shucks it all way. A decent background score or cinematography is pure myth in here, although the camera work is intriguing and convincing whose credit goes to Berg's experience. The choreographed action sequences are enthralling with all the actors working hard and investing all their chips in, especially Uwais who easily is the highlight of it. Berg's world in here seems like the first draft of the script, where his weaving of the structure in front of the audience takes out every inch of the thrill that was about to hit them. Wahlberg is annoyingly loud and disappointingly unstable in his portrayal where no supporting cast like Cohan, Rousey and Malkovich, is supporting him. Berg; the director, still needs some work to do especially to work with his editing department, since all crisp is purely hazardous. Few action sequences and sharp sound effects are the only high points of this sinking feature. Mile 22 has a long way to go, probably more than it titles for, but in the end it too wouldn't matter since they are following the wrong directions.

Have you ever met someone who was trying too hard to be cool? That's this movie. Whalberg is annoying and thoroughly unlikable as the "hero" The dialogue style of everyone talking really fast and over each other grates on your nerves. Seriously, this movie wants to be badass and serious and funny and just come across as that person you want to avoid at the party. Iko Uwais (The Raid) is the only enjoyable part of this movie. 4.5/10

. . . MILE 22 asks. It would be the End of Life of We Knew It, MILE 22 suggests. Of the 58 Americans shown during MILE 22, only "Marky Mark" survives. Red Commie Russia and its barbaric smirking allies slaughter everyone else in the course of MILE 22. The devious KGB plot outlined throughout MILE 22 is simply a prologue to a brutal sneak attack planned for our USA Homeland (as well as London, Paris, Rome, and Athens) designed to spread Cesium 29, turning millions of innocent folks into Jello and making the Free World uninhabitable for the next 160,000 years, MILE 22's background images document. For the purpose of time (and the filmmakers' self-preservation against the Real Life threats of the venal, revenge-obsessed KGB Crime Lord "Mad Vlad" and his mobster mouthpiece in our White House), MILE 22 does NOT show us exactly HOW the amoral Russian psychopaths obtain America's secrets. Certainly we all KNOW in our hearts that a Kremlin-rigged "election" elevated a New York City gangster (recruited as a teen at Reform School by the far-sighted KGB) into the core of the U.S. Government, allowing this Russian "mole" to meet alone recently with Mad Vlad in Helsinki and compromise America forever.