Muddled Action Thriller 'Mile 22' Should Have Pulled Off At Mile 3 Or So
Mark Wahlberg plays a CIA operative trying to extricate a mysterious informant (Iko Uwais) from a fictional country in this disjointed film that underuses Uwais and overuses Wahlberg.
by Chris Klimek
Aug 16, 2018
3 minutes
After four consecutive movies together, director Peter Berg and star Mark Wahlberg want to make honest men of one another and turn their fruitful partnership into a proper franchise. The violent, opaque, tonally scrambled, but— surprisingly! — not-idea-starved action thriller Mile 22 is fully declassified in its bid for sequeldom.
Like so many genre exercises with high-style aspirations — 2016's feature and the first season of the HBO series are recent examples — this muddled shoot-'em-up uses
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