Too many cuts can easily ruin an action film, but very rarely do they have the opposite effect. The best example of this is the wild action blockbuster Mile 22 by director Peter Berg, in which Mark Wahlberg and The Raid star Iko Uwais play the leading roles.
The 2018 film will be shown on TV on Thursday and will probably be seen by many as incredibly hectic cutting massacre The wild staging gives Mile 22 a special rhythm that fits surprisingly well with the themes of the plot.
The countless cuts in the action thriller Mile 22 are an extreme stylistic device
The plot of Peter Berg’s film is outlined as quickly as the rather stereotypical characters. The focus is on CIA agent James Silva (Mark Wahlberg), who, together with his team, tracks down the Indonesian police officer Li Noor (Iko Uwais). protect and escort must, because this has important information about the whereabouts of radioactive caesium.
Here you can watch a German trailer for Mile 22:
MIle 22 – Trailer 2 (German) HD
In the editing fireworks of Mile 22, elite agents deployed on the ground in the so-called new wars, people behind anonymous computer screens and surveillance footage from drones blur into a hectic chaos. Peter Berg holds on to each frame of his film only long enough for the human eye to just about grasp it, before a cut occurs every one or two seconds.
The breathless style of the film fits not only the complexity of modern warfare but also the Inner life of Mark Wahlberg’s main characterHis Silva is portrayed as a remotely autistic character who has suffered since childhood from an excess of intelligence and energy that he can never control.
In addition to the chaos in Wahlberg’s character’s head, which is directly transferred to the style of the film, Mile 22 is a single, uninterrupted forward movement. For this, the director increasingly blurs the line between terrorists and emergency services who also use terrorist measures for a supposedly good cause.
When is Mile 22 with Mark Wahlberg on TV?
The action blockbuster runs on September 5, 2024 at 10:25 p.m. on VOX. The broadcast runs with advertising until 00:10. If you don’t have time then, you can currently watch Mile 22 on MagentaTV in the streaming flat rate.