Mark Wahlberg is unleashed by director Peter Berg in Mile 22. Playing the unabashedly unsavory hero Jimmy Silva, Wahlberg gives a high-wired performance that never runs out of gas. If you like your Wahlberg fast and loud, Mile 22 has the performance for you. Wahlberg’s work is reminiscent of some of his great supporting turns where he gets to play a character […]
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- 8/17/2018
- by Jack Giroux
- Slash Film
Generally, the archetype for the macho, military-bred, man’s man action hero takes a quieter approach to life, letting his actions, not to mention his guns, do the talking for him. Well, not this time. In Peter Berg’s Mile 22, the latest addition to the Wahl-Berg collaboration, the hero Jimmy Silva (Mark Wahlberg) cannot stop talking. At one point, Silva becomes so entranced with creating a clever Heat-like meeting of the foes that his commander (John Malkovich) snaps “stop monologuing you bipolar f***!” I almost cheered.
Jimmy Silva has to be one of the most repulsive characters ever set up to lead an action franchise – though I don’t see Mile 23 happening anytime soon. His coworkers who try to diagnose him can only agree that there’s something there to diagnose. Whether he’s manic, bi-polar, or just obsessively angry, Jimmy puts the “smart” in smart ass. A spoon-fed exposition...
Jimmy Silva has to be one of the most repulsive characters ever set up to lead an action franchise – though I don’t see Mile 23 happening anytime soon. His coworkers who try to diagnose him can only agree that there’s something there to diagnose. Whether he’s manic, bi-polar, or just obsessively angry, Jimmy puts the “smart” in smart ass. A spoon-fed exposition...
- 8/17/2018
- by Luke Parker
- We Got This Covered
Primed to harsh any buzz you might still be enjoying from the exhilarating international spy high jinks of “Mission Impossible: Fallout,” Peter Berg’s “Mile 22” is an angry, hyperviolent downer of an action flick that is the August blowout-sale of its ilk: loud and desperate.
Mixing obnoxious geopolitical cynicism, fashionable fight incoherence and — still? really? — the fading appeal of Mark Wahlberg in grim-hero mode, the movie feels like Berg in a state of retaliatory cinematic aggression after the lackluster showing of his recent real-life-bravery tales, “Deepwater Horizon” and “Patriots Day.”
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 movie equivalent of being shouted at by your drunk ex-Army dad about how stupid and pointless your taste in popcorn fare is, and why can’t there be more bloody combat scenes with foreigners?
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Mixing obnoxious geopolitical cynicism, fashionable fight incoherence and — still? really? — the fading appeal of Mark Wahlberg in grim-hero mode, the movie feels like Berg in a state of retaliatory cinematic aggression after the lackluster showing of his recent real-life-bravery tales, “Deepwater Horizon” and “Patriots Day.”
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 movie equivalent of being shouted at by your drunk ex-Army dad about how stupid and pointless your taste in popcorn fare is, and why can’t there be more bloody combat scenes with foreigners?
Watch...
- 8/16/2018
- by Robert Abele
- The Wrap
The heroes of explosive action-espionage thrillers tend to be men of few words, but Mark Wahlberg breaks the pattern in “Mile 22,” a broken-limb, flying-glass dirty-ops spectacular. He plays Jimmy Silva, a walking lethal weapon who leads a U.S. intelligence squad so elite and undercover and ultra-badass that it has severed all legal connection to the government.
Jimmy, a hard-bitten agent and assassin, never misses the chance to toss off some rapid-fire jabber about history, violence, nuclear weapons, his trio of ex-wives — you name it. If you listen to his words, he’s actually rather philosophical (for a quasi-sociopathic government killer), and the fact that he comes off as someone badgering people on an amphetamine jag isn’t necessarily a strike against him. It’s just a sign that he cares. We see a home-movie montage of his childhood — hyperactivity! violence! orphaned at the age of 11! — and the question...
Jimmy, a hard-bitten agent and assassin, never misses the chance to toss off some rapid-fire jabber about history, violence, nuclear weapons, his trio of ex-wives — you name it. If you listen to his words, he’s actually rather philosophical (for a quasi-sociopathic government killer), and the fact that he comes off as someone badgering people on an amphetamine jag isn’t necessarily a strike against him. It’s just a sign that he cares. We see a home-movie montage of his childhood — hyperactivity! violence! orphaned at the age of 11! — and the question...
- 8/16/2018
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
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