Mile 22

**Mile 22** is a 2018 film starring Mark Wahlberg, Iko Uwais, John Malkovich, Lauren Cohan, Ronda Rousey and Nikolai Nikolaeff, directed by Peter Berg, written by Lea Carpenter and produced by Berg, Wahlberg and Stephen Levinson.

The film was a financial failure as it generated a loss of $66 million.

## Plot

CIA SAC/SOG officer James Silva leads a deniable strike team code-named Overwatch to infiltrate a Russian FSB safe house in the United States. Under the supervision of James Bishop, Overwatch's mission is to locate and destroy shipments of cesium before the highly toxic substance can be weaponized to kill thousands. The team kills the occupants, while Overwatch member Alice Kerr is wounded. One of the Russians falls out of an explosion after failing to save the cesium. Silva executes the boy despite his pleading, and everyone escapes.

Sixteen months later, Indocarr (fictional country loosely based on Indonesia) police officer Li Noor surrenders at the U.S. embassy to negotiate for passage out of the country in exchange for information on the remaining Cesium. Kerr vouches for Noor's reliability as an asset, but he refuses to reveal the password to an encrypted, self-destroying disc until he is safely on a plane. While Noor is being tested, Kerr tries to come to terms with her family issues. Axel, leading a team from the Indocarr State Intelligence Agency, arrives at the embassy and demands that Noor be handed over as Noor fends off an assassination attempt by Indocarr agents. Overwatch operative Sam Snow and Kerr arrive, shocked at his combat prowess, learning that Noor used to be Indocarr Special Forces.

Silva agrees to take Noor to an airplane 22 miles away. Noor reveals he is turning on the corrupt Indocarr government because it killed his family. Bishop's surveillance feed blacks out, then comes on again. During the blackout, Axel's men place bombs on the car, which explodes. While Silva's team helps fend off Axel's men, Sam is mortally injured. Silva gives Sam two grenades and leaves her, letting her suicide-attack the remaining henchmen.

Silva, Noor, Kerr, and another agent, Douglas, enter a restaurant. Silva sees Axel and walks toward him despite Bishop's orders. Axel tells James to give up Noor, but James refuses. While returning, he brushes past two girls and realizes that there is a grenade in the restaurant; he tackles civilians before it explodes. When the dust clears, Douglas is severely wounded, and Silva is attacked by the girls. Noor saves Silva by killing them. While going to a safe house, Douglas dies while holding off Axel's men.

After taking cover in an apartment complex, Kerr is separated and meets a girl. Kerr and the girl escape harm by using booby-trapped grenades. Silva and Noor split up, fighting Axel and his henchmen respectively. Silva and Noor meet up again, and meet the girl Kerr saved. She leads them to Kerr, who is losing against a henchman, and Noor kills the henchman.

On the way to the air strip, the remaining team members briefly confront Axel. Exasperated, Silva has Overwatch destroy his car with a drone strike. The team barely makes it to the airplane. Li Noor and Kerr board the airplane to meet her family once again. While on the airplane, Bishop notices Noor's heart rate is accelerating, and it is revealed that Noor is not a double agent, but a triple agent working for the Russian government, and the boy Silva killed was the son of a high-ranking official within the Russian government. The official hired Noor to give Alice the wrong information, so they would trust him, and just as Alice realizes this, Overwatch is ambushed, and the entire team is shot. Bishop barely escapes and rests outside while Alice's fate is left unknown. Silva realizes this too late and details his experiences during a post-mission debriefing. Back at home, Silva puts up Noor's picture, vowing revenge.