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36 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Original-CinLiam LaceyOriginal-CinLiam LaceyThe most compelling performance here belongs to the Indonesian actor and martial artist Iko Uwais, who became famous in The Raid movies. Here, he plays the “asset” who must be taken out of the country. Uwais’ hand-and-foot battles are genuinely explosive and when he’s not fighting, he doesn’t say much, which is a welcome relief from all the rest of the babble.
- 63RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyRogerEbert.comGlenn KennyThere's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.
- 60VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanBerg, when he wants to be, is a surgical craftsman of chaos. Yet Mile 22 has little weight or resonance.
- 58Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyEntertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyIt’s both a bit confusing and a bit confused. Fortunately, it’s also loaded with some of the crunchiest action scenes since the John Wick movies thanks to Indonesian martial-arts maestro Iko Uwais.
- 50Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonThe adrenaline never stops pumping in Mile 22, a superficially kinetic thriller that simultaneously attempts to be politically savvy and an ultra-macho shoot-‘em-up. That juggling act proves too sophisticated for director Peter Berg who, in his fourth collaboration with Mark Wahlberg, again demonstrates his sufficient skill at crafting dynamic suspense sequences.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyLike an athlete who leaves it all on the field, the film leaves it all in the moment and on the screen, and there's really nothing to take away afterwards. There is nothing to think about, no nuances to contemplate, no connection with these characters who exist only in moments of hyper-tension and crisis, no greater truths to consider other than to prevail.
- 25TheWrapRobert AbeleTheWrapRobert AbelePeter 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.
- 25The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzSomehow, Mile 22 devolved from what Berg promised STX would be – “the new wave of combat cinema” – to exactly the kind of generic late-summer garbage any studio could, and has, released for Augusts immemorial.
- 16IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichWithout a bloody foundation of truth to ground their swagger in reality or give it some kind of moral purpose, these two certified alpha males are completely lost; it’s like they were given all the various bits you need to assemble a watchable action movie, but went into production without any idea of how those pieces might fit together.
- 16The PlaylistRyan OliverThe PlaylistRyan OliverA laughably bad film.