Halle Berry is slick as a secret agent guiding Mark Wahlberg into the spy life in 'The Union,' a dumb-but-agreeable caper.
is a blue-collar schmoe from Jersey who turns full-bore Jason Bourne after just two weeks of training. Yes, the central gimmick of this movie hinges on how the agents and assassins who do thework are the working-class stiffs who aren't plucked from the Ivy League. Still, all those parkour moves, mixed martial arts stunts, and marksmanship skills laying dormant in a dude who drinks domestic beer while listening to"), isn't all that bad.
. The Union is made up of men and women who work real jobs — electricians, steel fitters, sandhogs, stevedores — and their street smarts are what's actually keeping the world safe from bad guys. This comes into clever play during some of the movie's action sequences, in which Union members open hidden-in-plain-sight fuse boxes and infrastructure hatches to find stashed weapons or escape routes.
scores well in that department. Berry is terrific as the straight man to Wahlberg's doofus, and it's good to be reminded just how badass she can be. This is very much an action-, but when she is mowing down nameless assassins and working complex fighting moves, the thrills are pretty genuine. Wahlberg's character see-saws between running and jumping Tom Cruise type and being a"did I just do that?" novice. At times, I was reminded of, to put this in Netflix terms.
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