The Union (2024)

The Union (2024)

 

2/10

Starring          

Mark Wahlberg

Halle Berry

 

Directed by Julian Farino

 

The time has come for Hollywood writers to stop doing some made believe stuff like this. The whole idea that the world (or like this movie the union and its affiliates) is at stake, and they need to go recruit a nobody and train him in everything he needs to know to be an agent in like a week, when it takes some of the best agents’ years to master. Then this nobody will then be good enough paired up with someone else to save the world, it is ridiculous.

The Union is a movie created for fans of Mark Wahlberg or Halle Berry, because the plot and everything in it, does not even make you want to remember that you have seen this movie.

They want me to believe that a man who has no military training at all, who is a complete bum can be trained in like 2 weeks to be an agent, is just lazy writing. The movie plot has two high-school sweethearts reunite. One is the bum Mike (Wahlberg) and the other is an agent for The Union Roxanne (Berry). Roxanne shows up in Mike’s life after like 25 years and kidnaps him with the aim of recruiting him to join The Union. The Union is a secret government agency which functions as the mercenaries for the various government agencies.

You will think, there must be something Mike has to offer to be the one or be the right person for this job, but sadly, no. It is Mike because of the almost 8 billion people on this planet, Mike was the next person on the list which contains everyone Roxanne, the other members of The Union and their other affiliates knew.

The reason there is space for Mike is that, during one of their missions, a lot of their members get killed, so they need to recruit new ones. Now when I say a lot, do not go thinking like hundreds. Of the number of members still shown in the movie, The Union were not lacking members, they just need ground staff, and the ones who were killed were not even up to eight. The reason for recruiting Mike is not clear.

Well, he was recruited, trained and placed in the field to buy a list. The list contains the name of government agents and their agencies functioning around the globe. If this movie plot is feeling very similar to a lot of the movie plots about agents, then you have seen this movie and even a better version if possible.