Director Julian Farino\u2019s \u201cThe Union\u201d follows Mike (Mark Wahlberg), a construction worker content with his job, dive bar outings with his friends, and sleeping with his former seventh-grade teacher (an awkward joke that remains a punchline over the course of the film\u2019s entirety). When his adolescent flame, Roxanne (Halle Berry) returns to the east coast after decades of no contact, what he thinks is a meet cute down memory lane turns into an international intelligence operation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hackers have accessed the personal information of all of the Western world\u2019s government employees, from soldiers to cops and the FBI. Agent Roxanne and her cut-to-the-chase boss Tom (J.K. Simmons) are spearheading the mission to retrieve the hack to prevent it from getting in the wrong hands. Their titular organization, The Union, is a small, highly secretive agency within the government, akin to the operations of the CIA. They\u2019re \u201can invisible army that keeps the world running,\u201d an agency that looks for street-smart, blue collar individuals who fly under the radar. Kidnapping Mike from New Jersey to London, Roxanne enlists his help for this high-stakes assignment for one sole reason: \u201cHe\u2019s a nobody.\u201d It\u2019s a flimsy premise that precedes an equally thin film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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