let me start of with this i enjoyed this movie only for one reason………read rest to know.

Action movies are never my first choice in any movie collection but they are always my first choice when i want to just chill down and get some adrenaline fix, by seeing some dope Acton sequences and stunts, and one-liners to a down enemy…..Action movies just hit the marks in this regards.

this movie, follows a special operations group known as the Overwatch, who take care of crisis before they ever emerge or get eyes of the world (basically every generic intelligence group). the movie starts with us getting introduced to the mode of operations by the showing us them taking down a secret group of KGB. now the real movies starts from this point where in some Asian country our protagonist James Silva (Mark Wahlberg) get tasked with finding some caesium that got stolen. this is when Li Noor (Iko Uwais) a local Police officer who was a informer for Silva’s group brings a encrypted drive which contains valuable information, which he is only ready to give access to if given asylum in America. thus Silva’s team now has to transport Li to the nearest airstrip within allocated time, which is around 22 miles from then headquarters (Geez i wonder why they names the movie miles 22). All this while armed and dangerous foes who dont want the disk leaking are gonna chase them the whole way.

now there are some other aspects to the movie i didn’t go into detain to prevent any sort of spoilers as i believe to keep things hush hush so that you guys can enjoy the movie to same extent as me. the movie is a fast paced high octane action thriller with enjoyable performance by Mark Wahlberg and Iko Uwais. Iko Uwais stole the show with his portrayal and the action sequences that were brutal and really choreographed and executed. you could say that was the movies true selling point (though this isn’t the point i mentioned earlier).

now i do have my complains with this movie, the is generic, like really generic it isn’t that hard to see through the plot if you are experienced with enough movie of this genre, it also has many underdeveloped characters, honestly if this movie had only this much to offer then it wont have been that mention worthy to me.

then you might be thinking why did i enjoy this film well that is for a simple factor that is how the movie ended. This is what i call the Baahubali effect, for those are unaware, Baahubali is a Indian 2 part movie, which was a huge hit in India the movies 1st part ended in manner that caused the movies value to increase thus increasing the hype for the second movie. you could say they 2nd movies success was partly because of the ending. Now i am not saying both are the same ending but this movie ends in a manner which i never expected when though i knew the main twist was coming. this movie ends in a cliffhanger and not in the general fashion such movies end in, mainly to build up hype for the sequel.

am i hyped, oh hell NO. not at all because one thing the about this one i like is the ending but rest is just mediocre in my eyes and that doesn’t hype me up for s sequel that much. but sure i would watch and rant about it when it comes out.

i would add a fun watch tag to it and rate it 7/10 (just or my enjoyment otherwise a 5)

28 movies down…………472 to go.

see you soon.

goodbye.