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Mile 22
A (INDIA)
2018
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Positive Reviews
43
Negative reviews
104
Average Rating
2.0
/5
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2.0
Berg has never been terrific with action (despite making a lot of action movies), but Mile 22 marks a low point for him.
Den Of Geek
2.0
Its like Clint Eastwoods The Gauntlet for the age of global terror.
EW
3.1
Theres a more than satisfactory amount of boom boom in the movies trim running time.
Rogerebert
3.0
If you accept some nagging loose ends and intentionally jagged filmmaking, this is an enjoyable action thriller with some surprises.
Common Sense Media
3.0
It all ends with an incredibly thirsty invitation for a sequel, and a summer movie this cheap is sure to earn one.
Indie Wire
3.5
When it comes to a movie making execution feel good, its all in the timing.
Variety
2.5
Its weird, and also pretty dumb.Just dont think about it too much.
We Got This Covered
1.0
But theres absolutely no one and nothing to root for in their latest team up, Mile 22.
Time Out
1.0
Its another of Wahlbergs collaborations with director Peter Berg, but without the style of their other films.
The Guardian
1.3
Mile 22 is fundamentally blinkered, not only by its strict adherence to genre tropes, but by its lazy attempts at contemporary relevance, as in the th ..
3.0
Fans of hardcore action will be pleased with Mile 22, and modest grosses seem likely.
Screen Daily
1.5
If youre a fan of action movies and dont want to dwell much on the manner that the action unfolds, this one may be up your alley.
ETimes (TOI)
1.0
And yet Lea Carpenters screenplay cant stop tripping over its own swinging dick.
Collider
1.5
And yet Lea Carpenters screenplay cant stop tripping over its own swinging dick.
Collider
2.5
Theres not an ounce of flab here, nothing inessential to the urgent goal of getting the key characters where theyre going before the clock expires.
The Hollywood Reporter
2.5
Are those enough ticking clocks for you.Because that is the bread and butter of Mile 22.
1.0
Mile 22 makes for an appalling referendum on the state of commercial cinema in 2018.
The New York Times
1.3
Mile 22s real tragedy is wasting Uwais, whos given multiple chances to brawl but not enough screen to shine.
Paste Magazine
2.3
And it might have been a cool movie if the filmmakers didnt take this ridiculous material too seriously.
IGN
2.0
Its hard to describe the movie as anything other than Tom Clancy gone ballistic, and not in a good way.
Telegraph
1.5
As if the one paper thickness is not punishing enough, the characters are imbued just one mood in their entire build.
The Young Folks
2.0
A tense and nasty thriller, Mile 22 is a frustrating experience that makes you wonder if Peter Berg should stick to depicting real life tragedies inst ..
1.0
Basically, take a special ops thriller, dial down the exposition to scenes where the swearing is the vocabulary, and amp up the action to take the pla ..
Cinema Blend
2.5
At least Berg doesnt deny us some gruesome kills, but the quick cutting and close shooting dont do Uwais any favors.
JoBlo
2.0
Mile 22 isnt lacking when it comes to hard hitting action, but is undone by its confused narrative and over rushed attempt at franchise building.
Screen Rant
1.3
Closing out a film by laying the groundwork for a sequel is one thing, but ending a film without revealing what happened to its characters actually te ..
The Globe And Mail
3.0
If youre a fan of action movies and dont want to dwell much on the manner that the action unfolds, this one may be up your alley. While there are plan ..
2.0
Still, the movie ends with a suggestion that a sequel might be in the offing.
One Guys Opinion
1.3
Whose side is this dog on The Chinese financiers The Russians The Russian apologist in Chief
Rogers Movie Nation
3.8
It doesnt get bogged down with exposition, instead providing a full adrenaline and testosterone cocktail that packs a kick.
ReelViews
3.0
10 1 3 / 10 Well, it was great while it lasted.Just two years ago, director Peter Berg suddenly seemed interested in becoming a filmmaker of integrity ..
Blu Ray
1.5
I often had trouble understanding what was going on, and since all the characters come off as arrogant jerks, I also found it hard to care.
Chicago Reader
1.9
The moral of Mile 22 is that modern warfare is a messy, indistinct, and depressing game.
Mark Reviews Movies
3.1
Still, the actors ensure that the movie never becomes all out boring and The Rock has this ability to elevate even mediocre material to something watc ..
Reel Film Reviews
1.5
The underlying story made no sense, none. This was a frustrating movie to watch.
You Tube
2.0
Thats my biggest issue with this movie: the camera shaking. If I cant see the fight scene, it loses its purpose.
You Tube
3.0
This couldve been a really fun action movie, but it tries to be so much more, and its message is unclear.
You Tube
2.0
Disappointing, and easily Peter Bergs worst movie since Battleship.
You Tube
0.5
In the end, they overreach and compromised what should have been an easy success.
You Tube
1.0
Wahlberg is James Silva, a macho, trigger happy CIA team leader with, sigh, anger issues who is charged with transporting an Indonesian special forces ..
The Times
2.0
The ending of the film is somewhat ambiguous and it leaves openings for a sequel.
Lariat
2.0
The result is a low class Mission: Impossible wannabe, brutally effective in its way (with brutal being the operative word), and culminatingspoiler al ..
News Review
1.5
In the shadow of the exciting and engaging Mission: Impossible Fallout, this looks and feels even more like a complete mess and misfire.
Screen It
2.0
Mile 22 can give you chase scenes and bullet ridden shoot outs and evil Russians and lengthy diatribes. What it cant give you is a watchable action mo ..
Rolling Stone
2.0
Peppering one liners throughout the dialog lightens the mood, but none of the other characters even remotely comes into focus.This is especially a sha ..
Shadows On The Wall
1.0
The fictional Mile 22 another secret ops saga about last resort warriors, albeit with none of the escapist appeal of the Mission: Impossible movies is ..
The Wrap
2.5
It delivers plenty of action but not a lot of thrills, and its copious bloodshed comes from characters who arent fully fleshed out.
News Day
2.5
Most viewers will be there for the body count, not subtleties like plotting.
Film Journal
1.5
The narrative flails its way through a series of contrivances and feeble attempts at humour.
Hindustan Times
3.1
If youre looking for a violent action fix, Mile 22 will certainly get the job done, but it will leave you feeling empty as the final credits roll.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
1.0
Bergs and Wahlbergs worship of the military and hatred of nerds continues.
Mountain X
2.0
The violent, opaque, tonally scrambled, but surprisingly! not idea starved action thriller Mile 22 is fully declassified in its bid for sequeldom.
Npr
0.0
The story moves in much the same way, shifting between endless bloody attacks and counterstrikes while going nowhere worth all the effort.
Star Tribune
0.0
Its mostly impossible to tell whats going on in the copious action sequences.
3.8
Mile 22 fits right into that oeuvre, and Wahlberg serves, once again, as the stalwart hero.
Toronto Star
0.5
A gifted martial artist and tremendous physical performer, Uwais has got the goods to deliver ass kicking choreography when needed.
Film Inquiry
1.5
Frenetic action and unbridled chaos is the name of the game in this espionage action thriller in which Mark Wahlberg reunites with director Peter Berg ..
1.0
Wahlberg plays brooding James Jimmy Silva, a grim, angry, senior CIA officer who is part of an ultra elite, high tech paramilitary unit that includes ..
Susang Ranger
1.9
Amidst all of these ticks and fury, the charismatic Uwais is a sea of calm.
Observer
1.0
Outside of being just another insultingly offensive method of turning mental disorders into comedy, those words were probably the only two seconds whe ..
Flickering Myth
3.0
Wahlberg is a true blue action star and gets plenty of moments to shine.
Book My Show
2.0
Here, they have made a not very good imitation of the Bourne films, using the plot of the old Clint Eastwood film The Gauntlet.
Boston Herald
1.5
The Raid itself was taut and engaging, right up to the end, despite that greedy promise of a sequel.
The New Indian Express
3.0
Its all tech porn and cordite infused mania, occasionally jumbled by over editing, but never dull.
The Film Stage
2.5
But Berg refuses to give the lines room to breathe, to fully land, instead pummeling the audience with them.
Chicago Tribune
3.8
Instead, Berg and Wahlberg deliver a relentlessly paced, addictively slick paramilitary thriller actively catering to fans of gonzo brutality and turb ..
Boston Globe
3.0
He gets a middling grade on execution and fails simplicity of purpose so spectacularly that its nearly transcendent.
Uproxx
2.5
Instead, what were stuck with is the least technically impressive piece of pure action Berg has made since embarking on his post Battleship commitment ..
Birth Movies Death
0.5
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Tony Medley
0.0
Like, insufferably bad.Like, the 95 minutes of this film felt like 2 hours bad.
Pajiba
3.0
Mile 22 is drunk on its own macho shadow conspiracy nonsense, tossing out so much double speak and inside jargon that it forgets theres an audience ou ..
Detroit News
2.5
A pointless action movie can get away with a lot but the one thing it must never do is remind us how pointless it is.
2.5
The fourth collaboration between Mark Wahlberg and director Peter Berg is devoted to visceral, brutally violent action, which this 90 some odd minute ..
Cnn
2.5
I would say Mile 22 makes an ideal MoviePass movie if MoviePass wasnt drowning in its own blood at the moment.
Forbes
3.0
The premise is cut from thin, but durable race against time material.
Herald Sun
2.0
If you squint hard enough, you can find some perverse entertainment in Mile 22s patently absurd world.
Consequence Of Sound
2.0
Mile 22 is so misguided in every other single facet of filmmaking that it feels like Yoram Globus and the ghost of Menahem Golan somehow possessed thi ..
The Play List
1.0
A wish fulfillment farce from a man whos actually said out loud that he could have stopped 9/11, and a director who either believes him or pretends to ..
Now Toronto
2.5
Between the rather limp characterisation outside of specific markers, the remarkable lack of tension throughout and the weak note it all ends on, and ..
Film Ink
2.5
...a serviceable late summer action film, likely to be forgotten by Labor Day.
Maki At The Movies
2.0
When hes not barking orders and unleashing colorful insults on his team, hes absorbing expletive riddled tongue lashings from his own superiors (clear ..
2.0
Iko Uwais excels as a Special Forces The ending sets Mile 22 up nicely for a sequel, but I dont know if audiences will want to spend any more time wit ..
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
3.5
Often frustratingly soft spoken elsewhere, Wahlberg offers up his liveliest performance in ages as James Silva, the manic, jabberjaw leader of an ultr ..
Nz Herald
0.0
A lot of the time, they can even be fun.But its truly (and blessedly) rare to come across a movie as shoddily made, as contemptuous of its own story, ..
The Stranger
1.5
If youre going to cut up your films fight scenes to the point where you cant see who is doing what, why bother hiring Iko Uwais
Screen Crush
1.0
The lads worked wonderfully together on the impactful Deepwater Horizon and the gripping Patriots Day.
Independent Ie
3.5
But as a showcase for some serviceable camerawork, bravura editing and occasionally brilliantly inventive fight choreography, it ticks the boxes.
Stuff
2.5
An uneven thriller that sacrifices everything for a vibrant rhythm.
2.0
You can scream CGI all you want, bat at least that technological invention attempts (and often succeeds) in bringing something to the screen.
Matts Movie Reviews
3.0
Those who like blood and gore action will surely like it. The rest can safely give it a miss...
FilmFare
1.0
In the right hands, this premise could make for a down and dirty action film, gritty and intense in the best ways.
Film
3.5
From the characters skills to the flab free directorial style, nothing is left to chance.
Scmp
2.5
Now comes the purely fictional CIA thriller Mile 22, and though it crackles with energy and has some impressive albeit gratuitously bloody kill sequen ..
Chicago Sun Times
2.5
With a twist ending that teases a greater conflict in an already announced sequel, maybe theyll get the formula right the next time.
Punch Drunk Critics
3.5
Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.
Straight
1.0
The films only saving grace is its scant runtimeand my retroactive appreciation for the comparatively lucid Transformers films.
The Ringer
2.0
Lea Carpenter is the screenwriter, but the style is all Berg, with fast cuts and lean storytelling.
Dead Line
3.5
An intense, action packed thriller from director Peter Berg, Mile 22s biggest fault is not shying away from genre tropes.
Solzy At The Movies
3.0
Yet in almost all respects, but especially structurally, Mile 22 is a mess.
Film Avclub
2.0
If youre the sort of person who sat through the Mission Impossible franchise but spent the entire time wishing you didnt know a single characters name ..
Cbr
2.0
Mile 22 does have a few well staged action sequences but the rest is rather clunky resulting in a film that feels pretty bloated even at only 95 minut ..
Bowling Green Daily News
1.0
The film is incoherent at the broad level of its plot, and its also incoherent all the way down to the smallest level of each individual cut.
Alternate Ending
1.0
Mile 22 is not as clever as it thinks it is.Its actually not clever at all.
Lainey Gossip
3.8
It delivers them with a serrated edged savagery that kicks viewer pulse rates into hyperdrive.And when its over you may not feel so good.
Seattle Times
1.5
Trained to kill as a young orphan, hes now the go to guy when playing by the rules doesnt work.
Film Journal International ..
1.0
A frenetic, only quasi coherent excuse for 94 minutes of choppily edited mayhem, Bergs latest proves both spectacularly vacuous and curiously smug.
Seven Day Svt
2.5
Despite the overtly aggressive message of the movie, Wahlberg and Uwais are in fine form.The latter takes full advantage of action sequences as a show ..
National Post
2.0
Though high minded and slick, Mark Wahlbergs latest actioner is a predictable and at times head scratching gumbo.
Original Cin
3.0
You get the intimidating impression Roland, who served in Iraq, knows what hes writing about.
The Australian
1.5
Despite Uwais raiding the screen and stealing many scenes with his badass moves, Mile 22 is openly mean spirited, terribly edited, and badly written.
Rendy Reviews
1.5
It a tightly paced 90 minutes plus credits, the thing moves like a tornado, mowing down vehicles and people like they dont even exist.
Third Coast Review
4.0
Look, there are some good twists on the hour long escape route, so if you enjoy an above average action ride youll probably walk out of this 90 minute ..
Blacknerd Problems
2.0
Its very difficult to hear or understand what the hell hes talking about.
Winnipeg Free Press
1.5
But Berg and Carpenter dont give us anything to make us care about life or death.
2.5
Some radioactive cesium has gone missing.Its terrible stuff; a packet of it shaken out on a sidewalk can apparently equal the devastation of Nagasaki ..
Theepoch Times
2.0
Although it has some remarkable action sequences, in the new film by Mark Wahlberg reigns the implausibility in a confused plot.
1.3
Its as if Mile 22 were a movie with a layer over it.Watching it is like seeing it through glass.
Datebook Sfchronicle
1.5
On a broad scale, this movie is about counterterrorism efforts and trying to predict the unpredictable.
Ap News
1.0
Even grading it on a curve as a right wing paranoid fever dream, this is a loathsome movie.
Thril List
1.5
The transparent characterizations show about as much edginess and sharpness as a kitten butterknife.
Screen Anarchy
2.5
If you seek pure adrenaline without substance youve come to the right movie.
Entertainment Voice
3.0
Just dont go digging for a plot thats coherent, because you wont find one.
The Only Critic
1.0
A good spy film will build tension, raise the stakes and render characters we care about under Bergs direction we get none of those elements.
Firstpost
3.0
Wants to make a statement about the murky depths our protectors brave to keep us safe but ends up expending more ammunition than insight.
Richard Crouse
3.1
Disappointment in the hand to hand combat scenes is leavened by the fact that most everything else about Mile 22 is quite enjoyable.
Free Beacon
2.0
It should be relatively easy to make an entertaining action movie based on the premise of getting an important asset from Point A to Point B, but Berg ..
Crooked Marquee
4.5
know each other well, and Wahlberg shows that he feels at ease directed by him.
1.5
This popcorn movie couldve been an intense and entertaining slam dunk but instead, it left me with an unpleasant feeling with its yay, America!
Screen Zealots
2.5
Summer of 84 delivers a sense of nostalgia as it spins a tale that mixes equal parts comedy and real world horror.
Kpbs
1.5
Can you say that you have truly lived until youve seen John Malkovich furiously address Mark Wahlberg as Child 1 (I mean, probably, but this way you g ..
Esquire
1.5
The movie is almost exactly 90 minutes. Mark Wahlberg talks for about 87 of them.
Splice Today
1.5
A late summer disappointment. Easily the weakest of the Peter Berg/Mark Wahlberg collaborations.
0.5
Ill conceived and miscast, Mile 22 mistakes flashy computer graphics for narrative intensity, quick cutting for compelling action, and quirks for char ..
L.A. Biz
2.5
Mile 22 had all the ingredients to be an absurdly entertaining B movie and yet it falls short of those modest expectations because it takes itself way ..
FanboyNation.com
4.5
Perhaps my brain doesnt process visuals at a fast pace but I feel I miss quite a bit as the film jumps quickly from one camera angle to another.
FlickDirect
1.3
If that sounds pedantic and repetitive, its a close approximation of most of the dialogue in Lea Carpenters overly talky script.
Movie Cricket
1.0
Its a movie that just doesnt care, and the film unintentionally echoes this.
Film Monthly
1.0
The director Peter Berg has synthesized the worst customs of the post 9/11 thriller in a film that brings them together, from the formal and the aesth ..
1.3
Nevertheless, Mile 22 also expects every utterance of the word fuck to be hilarious too.Its low humor done in a low and obnoxious way.
812 Film Reviews
1.0
Idiot) and its all so very conventional youll be gasping for something fresh to happen.
What I Watched Tonight
4.0
Taken at face value, its a breathlessly exciting action thriller that offers a genuine adrenaline rush.
Indie London
3.0
The thing is an unmitigated disaster of misguided patriotism and nihilistic boom boom thats seemingly working against itself at every opportunity.
Silver Screen Riot
2.5
But what are the Russians monitoring in their large surveillance craftThis movie touches on a number of styles and genres to tell its story.
Digital Journal
0.5
It misses its target completely, creating characters whose supposedly charming perks only make them more off putting.
Brightest Young Things
1.5
Perhaps Berg is hoping all that sound and fury will camouflage the holes in the plot. Instead, Mile 22 implodes under the weight of its own heavy weap ..
Daily Telegraph
3.5
Mile 22 provokes on an ideological level, continuously shaking the viewer.
3.0
That is the essence of the film: a prolonged denial of well deserved cake after teasing with a few delicious crumbs.
The Monitor
3.0
Its not the most rewarding finale for a movie thats aching for a good clean showdown.
Ex Press
3.0
Those who know current martial arts films already know and love him, but while Uwais does get the opportunity to show off the movie still doesnt serve ..
idobi.com
2.0
Perhaps with a more developed script the virtues of form would have more solid foundations to build on.
1.0
There is very little to recommend Mile 22 beyond the fact that it is over quickly.
The Hollywood News
4.0
The best action movies usually have the simplest stories... Its interesting that Peter Berg took note in his fourth collaboration with Mark Wahlberg.
0.5
There we have the early scene depicting Alice (played by Lauren Cohan) smashing a phone because her divorce isnt going well.
NBC News THINK
1.5
Its a high octane and adrenaline fuelled action movie, but its execution is a strange, uneven and confusing film that doesnt showcase the best of eith ..
VultureHound
1.5
Mile 22 is not interested in doing anything, but taking you from point A to point B unsuccessfully.
1.3
The story all of this messiness is around isnt even that original.
2.5
In Brief: Mile 22 shoulda probably gone the extra mile.Bad on an epic scale.
Kxl
1.0
Berg uses his skilful eye to engulf this film with his trademark excellence in action and violence but mostly just to distract from the nonsensical an ..
Flavourmag
2.5
Until recently, John M. Urbancich, former and first Executive Editor of CriticsChoiceMovies , reviewed films and wrote related features and celebrity ..
Jmuvies Blog Spot
1.5
He knows where stolen cesium enough to make five dirty bombs lies hidden.
Comicsverse
2.5
Likely to satisfy action junkies on an escapism level, Mile 22 doesnt develop enough of a personality to sustain the interest needed to invest beyond ..
Brisbanista
1.0
A heavy footed, relentlessly and morosely violent action film smothered by perhaps the genres worst affront: its hard to tell just what the hell is go ..
The National
2.0
Though the gunplay and obscene body count often gets tiresome, it does have some worthy action moments.
1.0
Berg is as committed as ever to Wahlberg as Americas red white and blue blockbuster hero, and virtually ignores co stars John Malkovich, Lauren Cohen ..
Flicks
2.0
Berg and STX Entertainment obviously are hoping there will be a sequel the ending pretty much demands it but its tough to think there will be much of ..
Houston Chronicle
1.3
That doesnt make sense, and neither does Silvas uncanny ability to solve jigsaw puzzles.
Phoenix Film Festival
2.0
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.
Next Best Picture
3.0
Iko Uwais proves why hes one of the most exciting action stars working today.
Movie Network
2.0
Unfortunately, Peter Bergs Mile 22 doesnt rank anywhere near the quality of those films, as it is a chaotically edited, overblown and self serious mes ..
The AU Review
3.0
Hes wont reveal exactly where until hes sitting on a plane headed to America.
In The Seats
2.5
Mile 22 is a hard R, the action scenes are brutal and bloody, and the women end up with puffy eyes, bloody teeth, and worse.
Philly
3.0
2016s Arrival gave us a heady sci fi scenario: when 12 alien spacecraft descend upon different points of the Earth, the U.S. military recruits expert ..
Looper
1.5
Almost all of this message is drowned out by the sound of big guns heaving.
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