"Mile 22" - preview screening

In the battlefield, when the diplomatic channels break down, and when the Military option has failed, prepare to be introduced to the latest offensive....Overwatch.
They are a covert Team who deal with any number of global threats, whether taking down Russian Terror cells operating in the US, or trying to track 9 lbs of radioactive Isotope, in the wrong hands it could level 6 major Cities.
Whilst working out of South Asia, at the US Embassy, a local Police official presents himself at the main gates, and says that he can provide information as to the missing substance. For safe passage to the US, he will reveal what he knows, but can he be trusted?  Is his intelligence legitimate?

Heading the team in the field is a very higly strung James Silva (Mark Wahlberg), and running things behind the scenes is Bishop (John Malkovich). The local Authorities arrive en masse to reacquire their local boy, before he can reveal any sensitive information. When a kill order fails, the Overwatch team realise that they need to get him out the Country as soon as.
Bishop arranges for a Military plane to land at a rendezous point, and fly him to safety. All Silva and the team have to do is deliver him to the pick up point, some 22 miles away. Easy???  Well it would be if it were not for a team of Shooters from the South Asian authorities out to do everything they can to stop them.

So the rest of the film is the US Overwatch team playing Cat & Mouse with the South Asians. It plays out well on screen, there is a great car and bike chase which is well shot. There is also a fast paced fight in a Cafe, however the problem with this action scene is that the photography is too in your face, and the appalling editing means there is barely half a second of footage on screen before the Editor cuts to another shot, and so on. I doubt even if you were sat on the back row of the Cinema, that it would make any difference.
But this is not a run of the mill action film, as all it most definitely not as it seems. And the film builds to a great conclusion.

Wahlberg is as reliable as ever, and Malkovich is a tad more sedate than usual. This is another great team effort, especially that Wahlberg and Director Peter Berg previously worked together on both "Lone Survivor" and "Patriot's Day". 

Had the photography and Editing been more professionally done, then the score would have been higher, so for that......7 out of 10