Mile 22

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  "Mile 22" brings the fourth team up between Mark Wahlberg and director Peter Berg. Will they be able to keep the streak alive of great films?
  James Silva (Mark Wahlberg) is the head of small military unit that is charged with taking an asset from the American embassy in Southeast Asia to the air field. As obvious as it may seem, this is a distance of twenty- two miles. To say that is resistance to their efforts, would be a big understatement.
   The biggest thing that almost ruins the movie for me was how it was shot. Through the whole movie it was shot with a lot handheld. This is fine at some points, but when you have as many action scenes as this does,  not the best idea. This film, also, has a deep fear of wide shots. This destroys potentially great fight scenes from the legendary Iko Uwais. For those that do not know, this man was the lead on both of the "Raid" films a few years back. This man really knows what he is doing. When you watch the fight scenes, it is hard to tell what has been going on during it.
 To add on to how this was shot, editing was a giant mess, as well. All of the editing was done so fast, it added to the trouble of comprehending the action scenes.
  When it came to this story, it is very thin. I feel like there was a set up, than just .... blah.  This is fine, when the payoff is worth it, but as I discussed in the previous paragraphs, its not the case.
 Basically, if you fix the camera and editing. There was so much potential in this project. 
GRADE: D+

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