In the beginning we are introduced to a team of CIA operatives, Wahlberg, Rousey, the attractive Lauren Cohan, etc, all working for Overwatch, a secretive agency which is supervised by Malkovich. A lil similar to Russell Crowe from Body of Lies.
The team infiltrates a safehouse n kills Russian agents including a young boy.
Forward 16 months n the team is in Indonesia trying to locate WMD.
A local rogue agent walks into the embassy n hands over the disk containing the information about the WMD.
He insists on giving the password only if he is given asylum in the U.S.
The team is assigned a task to take that rogue Indonesian agent (Uwais) to an airplane at an airstrip 22 miles away from the embassy. Lil similar to 16 Blocks.
Uwais' name has become synonym with fast paced, brutal, hand to hand combat.
In fact, Uwais' action sequences are the highlight of this film.
The film moves at a steady pace, has enough thrill n action to keep viewers glued. Wahlberg is getting monotonous with his sniper gun act but nonetheless he did ok. His plaid shirts were cool.
Malcovich was looking tired n it looked like he did this role to pay his bills. No wonder his weird hairstyle in this film.
The twist was predictable for me. Lil similar to The Jackal, Usual Suspects, Basic, etc.