Some nuclear cesium has been stolen in the fictional country of generic, off-brand Indonesia (played by the city of Bogotá), and only Li Noor ( Iko Uwais) knows where it went. At its essence, “Mile 22” is part “Sicario”, part “The Raid”, and all deeply terrible. The film does such a poor job of explaining its plot that - at the 30-minute mark - John Malkovich has to stop the movie in its tracks and literally reiterate everything that’s happened so far. “Mile 22” is an artless and incoherent wannabe blockbuster that follows a CIA paramilitary caravan as they try to escort a high-level informant out of a collapsing Southeast Asian country. Without 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. While “Lone Survivor” was basically a recruitment film, “Patriot’s Day” was an all-too-engaging dramatization of the Boston Bombing, and “Deepwater Horizon” was a scorching pyrotechnics display that paled next to Margaret Brown’s documentary about the same disaster, the very fictional “Mile 22” is almost bad enough to make you wish Berg hadn’t run out of terrible events that could be turned into popcorn entertainment. Far and away the worst summer movie of 2018 (at least of the ones that weren’t directed by Dinesh D’Souza, and don’t feature the Slender Man), “Mile 22” represents a bold new low for modern Hollywood’s most patriotic duo, as Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg’s dick-swinging brand of American exceptionalism is starting to feel more than a little forced in these unexceptional times.
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