Review of Mile 22 (2018) by Thequietgamer — 31 Dec 2018

A toxic protagonist kills the entire thing. I could have dealt with confused narrative that can't decide if it wants to be a nuanced look at the lives of paramilitary operatives or a first-person shooter game. Even the subpar editing everyone keeps talking about didn't bother me. I liked the action for its barrage of blood and gunfire. Mile 22 was even nice enough to include Iko Uwais kicking butt all The Raid style. I just couldn't enjoy any of it because front and center the entire running time is Wahlberg's character James Silva verbally assaulting friends and foes alike.

You know you have a problem when everyone you come into contact with wonders what your major malfunction is. They toss around theories of narcissism or some kind of dissociative disorder, but I find myself siding with the character that said "he's just an *sshole.".

That's it. That's really all I can say. I've sat down to write this review I don't known how many times now and have hit a roadblock every single one of them. The protagonist's presence is so overbearing that it's hard to notice anything else in the movie. Other than the bloodshed that is. Which means that Mile 22 wastes both Iko Uwais and Lauren Cohan. Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg's winning streak has come to an end, and it's all thanks to one terrible lead character.