Today's review is devoted to the film with Mark Wahlberg in the title role - 22 miles. This is a fighter of Peter Berg - the director, who took a steep, pathetic, in places stupid, but fervently loved by me Hancock and stupid Naval battle.
The plot of the film tells about the CIA agent Jamie Silva, whose role was played by Mark Wahlberg. He, together with his detachment, carries out the task of capturing cesium. I'm not strong in chemistry, but with the help of cesium it can be supposed to make a bomb. The CIA agents ultimately fail the task, as it turns out that there is no cesium in the place where the operation took place. But there is a source who knows exactly where the cesium is. He will tell his location, provided he is sent to the US. Mark Wahlberg and his detachment will have to drive a dangerous 22 miles and deliver the cargo on board.
The most typical and generally unremarkable average militant. Characters do not arouse sympathy, they do not want to empathize. Two strange dudes: one eternally beats himself with an eraser, if I'm not mistaken because of a propensity for violence, and the second is a psychic. Okay first, the main character, such as a super-duper agent, the brain works faster than the rest. But how did the second get into the CIA? Unclear...
The plot is trite and simple, except for one moment, but more on that later. In short, for its genre will go, provided that the action will be adequate. But ... the action did not bring us. Firstly, the good half of the film goes to the outset. The plot in pure insurgents of the type The Expendables and the same films are needed only to justify the murders. Secret task, revenge, anything. Shootings and fights are a system-forming thing in militants.
There are shootings in the film, normal, watchable, I do not want to quibble. But boevka is disgusting. Low-level operator work, as if the operator does not understand what is happening at all. The setting of fights - tear out the eyes, the frames are replaced at the speed of light. For a millisecond, 150 billion trillion frames are shown and falls from all sorts of angles. I do not understand how in 2018 you can shoot boevka in such a terrible way.
Cherry on the cake is not just super stupid, but a premium stupid final story twist, which according to the writers had to turn the game over. They were already preparing speeches, imagining how they stood on stage, they were awarded an Oscar for the best adapted script, but in fact a twist for the sake of a twist. This is stupidity, it is not needed. In the film, it does not get better from this, on the contrary everything becomes worse. To all else, the twist is absurd in its essence, the outset and the ending do not dock with each other.
Summarize. Film 22 miles - a passing summer militant with empty heroes, a standard storyline and a blunt ending. Half of the film is unnecessary chatter. I could say that at one time, if the camera work and the staging of fights would be a little less than tear out your eyes. But it's impossible to watch fights. I'm still not finding fault with the fact that there is a feeling that all the grenades in this film are educational. A CIA agent can easily escape from an explosion by covering himself with a mattress. Western critics were not enthusiastic about the film: 19% of positive reviews. The audience also met the movie coldly. It's not surprising, so you have to be able to prosecute a boevka, it would be better to spend more time on it and the camera work than for a brilliant twist in your dullness that leads to the second part of the film. Yes, if the picture pays off, there will be a second part. My evaluation of the film is 5 out of 10, it's not worth watching a movie like that in the movie, and I would not advise you to watch at home.
Thank you for attention!
