About the film "22 Mile" we have was earlier information. As you already know, in this thriller Peter Berg will be filmed in one team Iko Uwais, and ex-UFC champion, Ronda Rousey. Recently it became known that the actor also joined the cast of this film. Mark Wahlberg.
Seem to be, Wahlberg liked the collaboration with Peter Berg, with whom they previously worked together on the film"The survivor" (2013). By the way, in "22 Mile" (Mile 22) Berg In addition to the director's chair, he also took on the position of producer.
Summary:
A CIA agent (Wahlberg) is sent to Indonesia with the task of escorting an important informant to a plane waiting at the airport. To reach their destination, they need to travel 22 miles from the city center. But the main character faces corrupt police officers, criminals, and heavily armed local forces. Everyone wants to get them before they get to the plane.
The official release date has not yet been announced, but the film is listed as 2016 on IMDB.
How will they be involved in the film? Uwais и Rosie It is still unknown, we can assume that they will play negative characters.
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Tags: Mile 22, Iko Uwais, Mark Wahlberg, Peter Berg, Ronda Rousey
Speaking of Iko: it seems to me that, at the moment, Iko is moving in the right direction and since Merantau he has grown a lot, including in terms of charisma. Whereas Tony... has lost so much since the days of Ong-Baki and Tom Yum Gung that he still cannot grow into that version of himself (and this is not just a matter of physicality). So, now Iko as an actor, film fighter and star looks more preferable against the background of Jah.
Kelpaso,
It's like... the reason is that Tony lost a little, and not that Ico scored that much.
IMHO, Iko is interesting only because he is new, fresh, young, handsome and doesn’t take a lot of money. And the films with him are not 12+, but hardcore.
Yes, it moves, yes it develops, but very slowly. I don’t know, I don’t feel like a bright hero in him yet. Although, the guy is good and positive.
Ravenside,
Tony is brighter individually, I agree, but oddly enough, Iko catches the eye with the picture as a whole. Those. there is no feeling that he pulled out the film or that thanks to him the picture is good, the film is good in the general sense where the main character did everything that was required of him. This is probably a big plus for the director and the whole team that they managed to make an interesting film with excellent fight scenes. As for Tony, I personally skipped most of his films and stopped at the fighting games. The humor in his films is more likely for a local audience; the drama ala “killed an elephant” is too banal, even for this genre. Tony is absolutely not convincing in his roles. But when it comes to fights, he reveals himself to the fullest. Although after Ong Bak the second, I didn’t see anything sensible from him. It remains to wait for SPL 2 and finally draw conclusions.
Lindolion,
Well, I just tried to abstract myself from films and talk specifically about the figure, about the personality.
I remember...I remember...that’s how it was with Iko.
For the most part, what makes entertainment? Bright and interesting elements from BI + artistic and charismatic appearance of the character. It doesn’t matter what you wear, a stylish jacket or a ragged T-shirt with trousers. I want to be like Tony, but I don’t like Iko. But this, again, is my purely personal opinion, without saying anything bad about Iko as a person.
BUT that's okay. God bless him with this average Iko. What I don’t understand is that I watch various events with trickers on YouTube. Amazing guys!!! But why aren't they in the movies? Someone is charismatic anyway. No cables or special effects! Real opportunities!!! ... But figs! How so???
Because film fights and tricking/HMA competitions are very different from each other. Take the same Aaron Gassor (the red-haired guy who has been hanging out with Scott lately). If you take his acrobatic skills... he is much cooler than Adkins, but his showreels and tutorials look many times better than his movie fights (even though the guy is an experienced video blogger). Moreover, the disadvantages of his fights are not even in the choreography and/or camera work, but the problem is in the interaction between the fighters... they stupidly cannot “fight” in the frame (not to mention the acting, editing and everything else).
Jaidev,
Acting skills need to be learned.
I'll put it simply, Iko has no charisma, unlike Tony. As someone said a long time ago, if Jha is replaced in any film with another, then the result will not be the same..... but if you replace Iko in the same Raid, then nothing will happen.
JOHNSON,
Many people have said this here. Jaidev and someone else, and by the way, me too.
I'm not sure anything will work out that way for Iko. And Iko is not that character. Hollywood already makes everyone the same and minimizes personality. But even without this, what can Iko show that other movie fighters cannot? Well, maybe he is younger than many and girls like him. But no offense, it’s (maybe, not yet) at that level. Tony is still a much higher level character from non-English-speaking countries, to the level of which no one in the fighting game of the 2000s has ever come close to. In fact, this is true, despite the fact that I am far from a fan of Jaa.
Iko needs to plow and plow some more.
Ravenside,
I fundamentally disagree. Iko looks, in my opinion, more presentable and stronger as an actor than Tony. Another thing is that now there are no roles for both of them in Hollywood. There was a wave in the early 2000s when China attacked America. On the wave of which we received Rush Hour, Shanghai Noon, Romeo Must Die, Crouching Tiger and several more works from John Woo. That's when we lost the one and only Hong Kong action.
As for fights, it’s a matter of taste, Jaa shows acrobatic strikes mixed with Thai styles (elbows, knees, etc.) such a unique theater of martial art from Jaa. Iko works in a different direction. Emphasis on realism, dynamics, where the staging of battles is built in a more logical manner. He tries to bring a bit of fear and anxiety during the battle.
We all remember the scenes in Ong Bak, TYUG, but Jaa in my opinion does not have a scene that would be on the level of that scene between Ramai and Assassin in the second Raid. I watched it many times and wondered if overall I was watching the best fight in the history of cinema. Taking into account all aspects: choreography, dynamics, performance, experience, duration (the fight lasts a long time, but fragments do not fall out of the scene), camera work. If you put all this together and look, then nothing like this comes to mind, unless it’s the scene with Jackie versus Urquidez from the Diner or Jet versus the General in Legend of the Fist. Oh yeah, the Dragon vs. Chuck scene from Way of the Dragon also came to mind.
Of course, Tony blew up in the 2000s. It would seem an extinct genre, but when people saw it, they responded and began to advise each other to look at this Thai guy. Ong Bak made (!) pay attention to himself. Then Honor of the Dragon came out (a masterpiece fight scene, real theater or BI dance, whichever you prefer) and consolidated Tony’s success, showed that it was possible to work in this genre, a rapid influx of films from Asia began, then Adkins got involved and Donnie shot with his Ip Man. And of course Reid. All this is thanks, it seems to me, to Tony and his team.
Lindolion,
Everything, by and large, is a matter of taste. I repeat, I don’t like all of the fights performed by Jaa, for various reasons. But with Iko it's even worse. Yesterday I rewatched "Raid 2" specifically. And if we ignore the fact that there are fish without fish and cancer, then all this is yesterday. That is... yes, there are a lot of fights, and a lot of dynamics, and long takes, and even some kind of suspense and you kind of begin to empathize... but all this has already happened, I have already seen all this, and all this is usual. I don’t have the feeling that nothing like this comes to mind. Opponents as if on a conveyor belt, who run out one by one due to the camera angle, fuss in technology, Iko has blows from which you don’t feel the weight, the main character is not killed... We’ve seen this many times, these are old eggs, but a little new profile.
This final fight “Rahman vs. Iko”, the first time I watched it in the cinema, I couldn’t wait for someone to die, it was so dramatically drawn out.
This is all a matter of taste, because everything seems to be done correctly, and there is such a directly concentrated saturation of action, but at some point it stops hooking me. It is clear, of course, that Iko is a good and pleasant guy and tries very hard. But it seems to me that there are a lot of them in Indonesia.
Ravenside,
By the way, the ending of the first Raid gave me the same feelings. Long drawn out, boring.
Lindolion,
My thoughts about Iko and Evans are as follows: in the future, after long filming, after several films and experiments, it will be possible to say something, but for now it’s too early. There are makings, there is potential, but it still needs to be framed, formalized and realized to the end for a long time.
Well, a good chance has arisen for Iko to shine in Hollywood. Although this town bends everyone to its format