Mile 22 Fails To Go The Extra Mile Movie Review

The following is a movie review “Mile 22” by Marc Primo.

Release date: August 17, 2018 (United States)

Director: Peter Berg

Language: English

Production companies: STXfilms, Huayi Brothers

Producers: Peter Berg, Mark Wahlberg, Stephen Levinson

If you’re in the mood for a purely escapist action movie loaded with as much brutality as it is testosterone, then stop reading now and go ahead and watch Mile 22 because you probably won’t be disappointed.

But if you expect more ROI from the hour and a half of your life that you are going to invest in this latest offering from veteran director Peter Berg, then you might want to think twice.

In Mile 22, Berg and Mark Wahlberg join forces for the fourth time since Deepwater Horizon, Patriots Day, and Lone Survivor, which was released in 2013 to positive reviews. That picture earned Berg a Saturn Award nomination for Best Director and was well received by critics who praised his direction, as well as the storytelling and action sequences.

That said, it boggles the mind how the very same tandem behind the polished Lone Survivor has managed to deliver a picture that had me wondering if its singular objective was to simply celebrate machismo via unapologetic violence. If that was the intention, then Mile 22 succeeds with flying colors.

But knowing the high standards that Berg and Wahlberg have displayed in the past, I couldn’t help but feel that they opted not to go the extra mile with this one.

While the subject matter attempts to shed light on the CIA’s least understood unit through the duties of operative James Silva (Wahlberg), the film’s frantic editing and excessive jerky camera movement became a source of distraction from the story it was trying to tell.

And never mind the lack of character development since all of them were devoid of the slightest charisma anyway. In the end, I found myself leaving the theater as clueless about the CIA unit Mile 22 set out to dissect as I was when I walked in.

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