Review of Mile 22 (2018) by Drsiko — 07 Sep 2018

Just came back after watching Mile 22 and boy if it wasn't ridiculously bad.

This movie sticks to the 1998 mentality of action movies which doesn't work today anymore. With ridiculous and weak plot and hyper aggressive protagonists. For starters, they show us how Mark Wahlberg has 'special abilities' and thus joined The Overwatch, yet, none was shown in the movie. Did I miss something here?

Lauren Cohan who's divorced with a daughter can't hold her emotions and behaves like a teen which is so silly since she's supposedly a trained agent. The f-bombs are everywhere among the team at every sentence and Wahlberg should talk aggressively to make you feel more intense even for the unnecessary lines.

About the city the whole film was based on, it was supposed to be in some South Eastern Asian country. Instead, they decided to take it in Columbia. Like seriously? Just to save some budget?

Won't go through all the silly plot like 7 motorbikes could easily take down a fleet of "The greatest country in the world" by surprise, or the ridiculous scene where they needed a plane to take down a car blocking the way to the runway, or the implied political correctness statements by female agents, one by Cohan saying "You think if I'm a woman I can't hurt you?" to Uwais and the female programmer who says "Most code is written by men, so I can see this code is written by a woman." This is the most stupid sentence I've heard. As a software engineer myself, you can't "distinguish" a code if it's written by a man or woman, and no, you can't identify the ethnicity either. It's not a poet or a literature piece. It's like saying this math formula was written by man or woman. But I can say this movie was written by a 12-year-old!

Sure, the 'twist' in the end was so funny and bad. It should be a shame for the intelligence of the US of A if such incident happened in real life.