22 Miles

As I read reviews for summer action movies, reviews that position these movies as something that they are not; these are popcorn, leave your brain at the door action movies, I'm left to assume that these less than honest reviews are trolling reviews.

Mile 22, The Meg, John Wick... do what they are produced to do; entertain regardless of physics, gravity or good sense.

Ebert knew this; review a movie for its purpose and audience.

Mile 22 does what it was made to do; to distract you from your everyday life. Serious it is not, full of gun fu, car chases, violence and revenge, it's nothing new, if you're looking for this type of movie you won't be disappointed.

I understand the criticisms about this movie. But the criticisms fail to consider the movie as a whole and only consider minor things. It is very difficult with respect to me to like a movie, yet I liked this one! I will mention the pros and cons and let the reader decides. I will start with the cons to explain why this movie doesn't get a high rating despite it deserves a lot more.

Cons (as mentioned by criticisms):

1) Camera shaking. It is not perfect but not too bad. It doesn't prevent you from enjoying the movie.

2) Fast dialog. This is an action movie - not a drama. More dialog will make it boring.

3) Story. This a personal opinion. I personally like the story.

Now, why I would give such a movie 8 stars although I am very difficult to be satisfied by any movie.

Pros:

1) In most cases, in action movies, the good guy (hero) starts weak and suddenly becomes unbeatable at the end. Or sometimes the hero is already unbeatable from the beginning to the end. In this movie, we have a fair war. The good guys (heroes) lose and lose and lose from the beginning to the end. The bad guys are tough and really tough, and many times in the movie you wonder "how are they going to make it!?".

2) This movie is very fast. Everything is fast. You will never get bored. No unnecessary lengthy dialog. It is full from the beginning to the end unlike other movies where the director just pass minutes by unnecessary lengthy dialog and scenes.

3) The twist. Although you may predict the end, but it is really satisfying connecting all the parts of the movie into a single picture.

I write this review because I think this movie got a lot less than what it deserves.

This is an action movie that is fast, straight without any derailing. Good and bad guys are almost equal - Fair war- this creates a lot of thrill. Actions scenes are good and thrilling. The story is also good with a very satisfying end.

Don't listen to criticisms. I strongly recommend this movie. You will not be disappointed.

Mile 22 has a simple goal in its script, maybe too simple, get this man from point A to point B. The script itself has a great twist at the end, but for the rest of the movie it's lazy. We get to know everything about Mark Wahlberg's characters through 2 minutes of exposition, which is Michael Bay-type lazy. And for the rest of the movie he doesn't really change, nor do any of the other characters. The action is entertaining, but it is shaky and quickly cut together, and not like Paul Greengrass, more like Columbiana. I thought Hollywood was done with this trope of cutting quickly to hide the action, John Wick and Atomic Blonde showed us that. But this movie does it again. Overall, the movie is just meh, not great, not the worst, just meh. And I expected better from Peter Berg.

Overall the movie is a good action movie and I hope the desired franchise happens

Well, sure it aint oscar material here, and it won't be getting any prizes for originality, but for what the movie is supposed to be, it is surely not deserving anything less than a 6, i have seen endless 1 -3 star reviews, what's up with that?, i mean seriously? have this people even watched the same movie, or are we just lobbying right now? because you have tones of absolute garbage movies here on IMDB being rated 9 and 10's deceveing people and on the opposite end, you have ok movies being rated 1 and 2's.

The Mile 22 is as expected an action packed movie, it is fast paced, has a decent plot, it is somewhat realistic, (if u compare with the likes of other recent action movies like let us say, Skyscraper) and yet, people are just throwing 1 and 2's like if this was some sort of sharknado B movie of the action movies, Jesus people, rate movies seriously, what is wrong with u people these days???