Peter Berg	...	(Director)
Lea Carpenter, Graham Roland	...	(Writer)
Mark Wahlberg	...	James Silva
Lauren Cohan	...	Alice Kerr
Iko Uwais	...	Li Noor
John Malkovich	...	Bishop
Ronda Rousey	...	Sam Snow
Carlo Alban	...	William Douglas III
Natasha Goubskaya	...	Vera
Chae-rin Lee	...	Queen
Sam Medina	...	Axel
Keith Arthur Bolden	...	King
Jenique Hendrix	...	Knight
Billy Smith	...	Rook
Myke Holmes	...	Pawn
Emily Skeggs	...	M.I.T.
Terry Kinney	...	Johnny Porter
Jeff Russo	...	Composer
Jacques Jouffret	...	Cinematographer
Melissa Lawson Cheung	...	Editor
Colby Parker Jr.	...	Editor

Comments: The use of women in this is halting. Five stars for that. Deduct a couple for the douche level of Wahlberg (although he had more witty lines than Tom Cruise in MI:F), add one back for Iko Uwais dragging that guy's neck over the broken glass of a car window. Damn.

Gun fights are always super stupid (as are grunting men), but when the second team showed up at the Overwatch location the blond Asian and the black woman with a crew-cut solidified this at four stars.

The overall editing of the film prevented it from going any higher.


Summary: In a visceral modern thriller from the director of Lone Survivor, Mark Wahlberg stars as James Silva, an operative of the CIA's most highly-prized and least-understood unit. Aided by a top-secret tactical command team, Silva must retrieve and transport an asset who holds life-threatening information to Mile 22 for extraction before the enemy closes in.