the screenplay by Lea Carpenter is well-crafted and intricate...Peter Berg knows how to shoot action and there's plenty to see. In all, a cracking good action film/spy caper with some fine performances makes Mile 22 a rollicking summer escape
Mile 22 like a 'Bourne' film that aims lower and hits; It's a spiky propulsive thriller, at once exciting and numbing, packed with weaponry as well as hand-to-hand combat that's marked by a quick-time viciousness
Mile 22 is strong on action but weak on plot; It's confusing.. Fortunately, it's also loaded with some of the crunchiest action scenes..thanks to Indonesian martial-arts maestro Iko Uwais. He's also the main reason to see the movie
Mile 22 can give you chase scenes and bullet-ridden shoot-outs and evil Russians and lengthy diatribes. What it can’t give you is a watchable action movie
Mile 22 as a whole, which confuses hostility for characterization, and cheap nihilism for dramatic depth, also wastes the considerable charisma and abilities of Indonesian action star Iko Uwais
by Bruce DeMara [Toronto Star ]
by Michael Gingold [Time Out New York ]
