“Stop monologuing, you bi-polar f***!” could be the best career advice that anyone’s given Mark Wahlberg, even though it’s hard not to laugh when it’s John Malkovich speaking from under what’s easily the most outlandish toupee of his career. (Watch the way the filmmakers purposely compose around the Chia Whisk Broom.) Wahlberg stars as the sarcastic, over-enunciating jagoff leader of a hush-hush special ops unit assigned the task of driving an Indonesian cop (Iko Uwais) with a secret code the titular distance to the airport. Other than being terminally pissed-off, Wahlberg is assigned one idiosyncratic trait: a rubber band around his wrist, to be snapped whenever the need to control his anxiety arises. Were it around his neck, the actor would have suffocated before the third reel. Director Peter Berg’s Cuisinart approach to visual storytelling renders the majority of the action incomprehensible. And what is the point of giving Ronda Rousey second-billing when the pro-wrestler barely speaks a word of dialogue and does even less fighting? Pass! (2018) — Scott Marks
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