Mile 22

"Option 1: Diplomacy. Option 2: Military. Meet Option 3"

Filmology Rating: 2 out of 4

Mile 22 is the newest assault on your senses and stars Mark Wahlberg as something you've never seen before, a cop who screams a lot. This movie has a plot of some kind where Marky must get a diversity hire to safety because of codes? Russians? Donald Trump bobble head?

I would not necessarily call this a movie but rather a bunch of scenes quickly edited together to make the audience feel confused and uncomfortable due to how violently the director shook the camera while gun shots and swear words are thrown around a tiny room.  So every character in this entire movie is my worst nightmare, it's nothing but horrible characters who try and talk over each other by yelling more cuss words. Having characters just scream over each other is very juvenile and dumb. It's like watching Bad Boys, but with a cameraman that has one leg and no hands. 

The camera work is absolutely horrendous in this movie. Every action scene comprises of close ups, whip pans, hard cuts, and loud grunting. I had no idea what was going on. Even a conversation is nothing but close ups and terrible hand held camera work. It felt so claustrophobic.

This film is also confusing because it jumps from present to future time quite often and does not tell the audience in any way what is going on. I did not know the plot of this film until the "climax" of the movie. 

Mark Wahlberg has this stupid click where he has to keep snapping a rubber band on his wrist because he is driven by pain?? But it is only done when there is nothing else to do in the movie. At one point he just forgets entirely to do it. There is also a social commentary about Russians and hacking voting systems and it was a complete throw away line never addressed again.

This film is just baffling with some of the worst camera work I've seen in a while. Stay very far away from this film.

Rating: Let It Burn 

-Nolan