Mine (2017)

Wonderful character development!

Overrated and overhyped

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Obviously it's not a war movie, maybe it's called MIKE more correct to match the theme. Armie played a solo who was haunted by his past life failure, escaped away to be a soldier, happened to be stuck in the desert. In that dead end, reflects his life and finally he found the answer. 1 hr 46 mins, I just so obsessed with the performance though it's all made by one character. Every expression every movement is correct, so made the movie so persuasive. However, even so hard situation in the movie, it's not boring. The characters like Tommy and the Berber, made the movie easier and funny, also the ending song, after a long term intense, is kind of a relax and enjoyable. What plus surprise is, the credit says "Produttore Esecutivo(Executive Producer) - ARMIE HAMMER". Great job!

Mike (Armie Hammer) and his colleague and spotter Tommy (Tom Cullen) are both tasked with assassinating a high profile terrorist. However, the assassination attempt fails and when they are spotted by the terrorists both men are forced to run for their lives across the desert. After evading capture, the two men decide to walk to the nearest village (after their GPS fails), but tragedy ensues when Tommy steps on a land mine (resulting in him losing both his legs). Things worsen when Mike also steps on a land mine, but he has the foresight to keep his foot on it (in order to not trigger an explosion). As a result of this, Mike is forced to endure several hours and days in the desert and must use all of his skills to try to survive this terrifying ordeal...For the most part, Mine is a fairly engrossing film (although I found Tom Cullen's character to be a little irritating truth be told). However, when Mike is isolated in the desert on his own then the film does become much more involving - the unfortunate predicament that he finds himself in did help to keep me involved in the story.Despite the seriousness of Mike's predicament, the film does have a sometimes surprisingly light-hearted tone; a local villager discovering Mike alone in the desert who doesn't seem to grasp the peril of the situation that Mike is facing was a really nice touch to the film and provided the film with some humour; it actually balanced the film out well as he would often turn up after Mike has faced a perilous night alone in the desert. This villager isn't merely there as comic relief however and he does inject some pathos to the film and understands Mike's predicament more than Mike initially believes.In the latter stages of the film we start to witness Mike slowly losing his mind after he has spent a number of hours and days alone in the desert. I can understand what the filmmakers were trying to do here, but a lot of these moments felt a little choppy and messy - they are effective in the moment I suppose, but they don't add much to the film and don't really allow us to learn much about the principal character. Some of the lighting and editing is quite poor as well which sometimes took me slightly out of the action - although I'll admit that I was never bored when watching this film.Armie Hammer (yes I know he sounds like a brand of toothpaste) is not an actor that I'm all that familiar with; I've seen him in the film version of The Man From Uncle, but that's the only other film I've seen him in as far as I can recall. To be fair I liked him in The Man From Uncle and I thought he was solid in this film as well. Carrying a film for large portions of time on your own is probably the most challenging job that can be bestowed upon an actor, but Hammer does a great job here and takes us through this perilous and emotionally draining journey very well.The major issue I had with this film is mainly down to the narrative; we see at the start that Mike steps on a land mine, but it's revealed at the end that he actually stepped on a tin can (it's explained earlier in the film that the villager dug up some of the land mines and replaced them with tin cans so that the metal detectors wouldn't know any different). This was a bit of a rug pull to me as you could hear something click when Mike stepped on what we all believed to be a land mine. Also wouldn't it have been better if the whole section about replacing land mines with tin cans was omitted till the end and thrown in as a twist? I suspect that when this was revealed about halfway through the film that some people may have seen what happened at the end coming..All in all though this is a fairly enjoyable and engrossing film (despite some sloppiness within the narrative). It won't be for everyone, but for anyone that enjoys watching a 'one man surviving against near impossible odds' type of film then I would say that Mine is worth a look.

After a failed assassination attempt, a soldier finds himself stranded in the desert. Exposed to the elements, he must survive the dangers of the desert and battle the psychological and physical tolls of the treacherous conditions. I don't even know from where to begin with this film, "Mine" has an awful twist that betrays both it's story and it's title and will disappoint a lot of people with how dumb it gets after a while. We see the main character's life threw flashbacks and somehow we're supposed to care but honestly? i did not it's just poorly made and nothing that you haven't seen before. The acting by Armie Hammer is mediocre and nothing great the same goes for Annabelle Wallis. The toy soldiers from the Toy Story Films have a cameo for some reason also and after watching this film i'm starting to like 'The Wall' even more now. (F)

Mine is a unique film about the psychological effects of war. I'm not talking about the mind's stress during combat, nor the after effects of PTSD. This is something different all together, and very well executed. It's not really a war movie... it's more of a psychological thriller.Directors Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro did a fabulous (you see what I did there lol?) job putting this film together with excellent cinematography, VFX and editing. Although I hate slow paced films, and this one was, it was riveting enough to hold my attention. Armie Hammer was outstanding in his role.Very enjoyable and one of the better war-type films I've seen. It's an 8/10 from me.