Set in Southeast Asia, the story concerns a rogue cop, played by The Raid's Iko Uwais. Silva and a mission coordinator called Mother (John Malkovich) deploy them against hordes of brown people, teaching them not to screw with the red, white and blue.
What made this movie fun for its star and director clearly was getting to play with pricey, space-age military gizmos.
A generic bulletproof type with a license to kill and anger management issues, he's basically Jason Bourne without the sparkling personality. Wahlberg stars as James Silva, the leader of an elite CIA unit known as Overwatch. The movie correlative to the commander-in-chief's dream military parade, it might just as aptly have been called Fire and Fury. Rather, Mile 22 offers an adrenalized celebration of American might, a veritable super-cut of tech-war tropes. That would've been inconceivable, given the filmmaker's penchant for the patriotic and his almost fetishistic obsession with all things military. With Mile 22, Berg accidentally taps into the wellspring of weirdness underlying life in the age of Trump: a topsy-turvy day-mare in which the White House might as well be the "Big Brother" house, and an unstable game show host has the codes to the nuclear arsenal.
Every now and then, a work of cinema holds a mirror up to the cultural moment, even if that wasn't remotely its creator's intent. But more on that in a minute.įirst, a few thoughts on their latest, a completely fictional black-ops thriller they thought would be fun to make after the pressures of telling a trilogy of stories based on real-life tragedies. The two are happily planning a future together. The pair met in 2012 during preproduction for Lone Survivor (2013), discovered they had a lot in common and have hooked up for three more movies since then: Deepwater Horizon (2016), Patriots Day (2016) and now this one. The relationship between the actor and the action auteur has lasted longer than many a showbiz marriage. The Home Depot's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: HD) and is included in the Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor's 500 index.Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg just may be Hollywood's reigning It Couple. The company employs approximately 500,000 associates. In fiscal 2020, The Home Depot had sales of $132.1 billion and earnings of $12.9 billion. Virgin Islands, Guam, 10 Canadian provinces and Mexico. At the end of the second quarter, the company operated a total of 2,298 Home Depot retail stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. The Home Depot is the world's largest home improvement specialty retailer. On behalf of the entire company, I want to thank him for his enormous contributions over the past 15 years, including developing great leaders like John." "And we are truly excited for Mark as he takes on his next career challenge. "We're incredibly fortunate to have such a strong bench of talented leaders like John, who has delivered outstanding results with every challenge he's taken on over the past 14 years at The Home Depot," said Craig Menear, chairman and CEO. Prior to that, he worked in management consulting at Ernst & Young. Prior to joining The Home Depot, Deaton served eight years at Office Depot in several officer-level positions in supply chain, operations, business development and marketing. He took on the role of senior vice president of Retail Operations earlier this year, further expanding his experience across the company.
Among his many other contributions in this role, he oversaw the mechanization of the company's RDCs. John was named senior vice president of supply chain in 2017, leading major aspects of the company's supply chain operations including transportation, distribution and inventory management. In this role, he led the transformation of The Home Depot's private brands portfolio, including the launch of HDX and the relaunch of Husky, both of which have grown to be iconic multi-billion-dollar brands. In 2011, he was promoted to senior vice president of brand and product development.
He began his career with The Home Depot in 2007 as vice president of supply chain development where he led the rollout of 19 Rapid Deployment Centers (RDCs) to modernize the company's store replenishment operations. Deaton, a 14-year veteran of the company, brings a wealth of experience after serving in several company leadership roles in supply chain, product development, and most recently in retail operations.ĭeaton has been an instrumental leader in the supply chain transformation throughout his tenure with the company.