Mile 22 - 拳力逃脫

Mile 22 (拳力逃脫) is an 2018 film. The movie stars Mark Wahlberg, John Malkovich, Lauren Cohan, Iko Uwais, and Ronda Rousey.



A specials team group is sent in to retrieve caesium before the substance can be weaponized. However, they do not and there are some out in the open market now. 6 months later, in a Indocarr, a South East Asian country, a police man with knowledge of the caesium turns himself into the US consulate. Indocarr's leadership want him back and actually attack the convoy. They have 22 miles to get to the airstrip to get the police man out. Along the way, the team slowly starts to get picked off, but the police man starts to help them. Can they make it through the 22 miles to the escape plane?

This movie was all sorts of hard to follow. They set the movie in South East Asia, but during the run through the city, it felt like they were in South America or a Latin American country. Not Asia. Form that point on, I just couldn't. Just Can't, pick a meme for that phrase. That's how I felt. I ended up watching it all because of Lauren Cohan and Iko Uwais. Just had too.

Got this movie via T-Mobile Tuesday Redbox Promo.

Warm Bodies - 殭屍哪有這麼帥

Warm Bodies (殭屍哪有這麼帥) is an 2013 film. The movies stars Nicholas Hoult and Teresa Palmer. The supporting cast include Rob Corddry, Dave Franco, Analeigh Tipton, and John Malkovich. The movie is based on a novel of the same name written by Isaac Marion. The movie did well enough that Summit Entertainment is starting pre-production on a prequel.

Nicholas Hoult plays "R" a zombie. Teresa Palmer plays Julie Grigio, part of the remaining human race. While on a medicine run, R and his group find this human group and proceed to eat them. R actually eats Julie's boyfriend at the time. While eating the brains of his victim, R gains flashes of the memory left in the brain. As such, Julie's images flash before R, prompting him to save Julie from the other Zombies. When Julie gets back to the human camp safe, she tells of how this zombie is starting to become "human" again.

This movie was really really entertaining. Based on the current Zombie mythos, this version of zombies flips some conventions on its head. First is that while eating the brain, the zombie gains memories of its victims. Second is that zombies can be cured through love. Not some cure as we see in other inclinations (pertaining to vampires as well). Third is that zombie's can dream.

Add to it the extremely beautiful Montreal backdrop, Analiegh Tipton, and Theresa Palmer. Wow. Blown away. However, I find it hard to convince myself that I would re-watch this a second time. Definitely worth a watch though.