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Critics Consensus: Mile 22 lets the bullets fly -- and not much else -- in a thrill-deficient action thriller whose title proves sadly fitting for a film that feels close to a marathon endurance test.
Critic Consensus: Mile 22 lets the bullets fly -- and not much else -- in a thrill-deficient action thriller whose title proves sadly fitting for a film that feels close to a marathon endurance test.
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A confused film that, for all of its macho bluster and propulsive forward motion, doesn't really know where it's going.
The two times Uwais is allowed to bust out his fighting moves, the scenes are Cuisinarted into incomprehensible shreds, and the point becomes not the precision and virtuosity of his skills, but the broken bones and spurting gore that end each mano-a-mano.
You have no idea what's going on. This movie is so overly edited, it's all shaky cam.
For a movie so excited to tell a story about the CIA's most highly-prized and least understood unit, it sure doesn't do much to ensure you leave any more informed than you were when you sat down.
It delivers plenty of action but not a lot of thrills, and its copious bloodshed comes from characters who aren't fully fleshed out.
Berg and Wahlberg deliver a relentlessly paced, addictively slick paramilitary thriller actively catering to fans of gonzo brutality and turbocharged machismo.
Mile 22 boasts nothing of any note. Bland and generic - drive twenty-two miles the other way.
Mile 22 tries hard to bring a new hero to the action film genre but it ends up getting in its own way too much to be really enjoyable.
They say that war is hell. Nevertheless, hell takes on a different kind of connotation when watching the boisterous and banal wartime actioner Mile 22.
At the top of the directorial ladder with his patented "combat cinema" stylization, with MILE 22 Peter Berg delivers a film that is entertaining when it comes to action, but unfortunately, falls short with character development and substantive story.
Don't go into this film looking for quality action of Uwai's earlier films or even Berg's earlier films. But out of the two STX studio films out in August, Mile 22 is far funnier than The Happytime Murders, so it definitely has that going for it.
It's both propagandist and an ugly display of violence for violence's sake. Worse yet, it's simply a bad action movie.
There is something dynamic and urgent about the plot at first, but soon this generic propagandist movie descends into mindless chaos (with an awfully shaky camera and choppy editing that don't even allow us to locate ourselves geographically) and toward a preposterous ending.
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