Mile 22 Review: 3 Ups & 6 Downs

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3. The Brutal Violence

Even though the action sequences suffer from the aforementioned editing issues, they do at least feel appropriately visceral, with a bone-crunching quality that fully justifies the film's R rating.

Berg liberally fills the screen with blood, and the borderline-sadistic death scenes certainly exemplify the ruthlessness of Silva, his team and their enemies. A standout sequence in which Li Noor (Iko Uwais) slams a man's neck onto the jagged remains of a broken car window is one of the gnarliest movie deaths you'll probably see all year.

While much of the blood-letting is disappointingly undone by slack technical work, it's at least easy to admire Berg's commitment to unapologetically harsh, shocking violence.