Halle Berry’s hair is absolutely brilliant in The Union . All these women-led action movies have delicious hair — remember Charlize Theron in The Old Guard ? The Union features Berry as Roxanne, a dangerous, supremely capable super-spy working for a shadowy organisation called, yes you got it, The Union. This is the organisation that quietly does the dirty jobs the other alphabet soup agencies cannot.
When a job goes south in Trieste and a dangerous list is in the wind, Roxanne decides to call...
no not Ethan Hunt, (he is busy jumping off planes onto trains or some such) but her high-school sweetheart, Mike (Mark Wahlberg). The two parted ways when Roxanne went to college while Mike stayed in Jersey, as a construction worker, sleeping occasionally with his seventh-grade teacher, Nicole (Dana Delany). His mum keeping tabs on him is a running joke on how well-informed she is.
There are two weeks to Mike’s best friend’s wedding and he has a boatload of best-man duties to perform. And then Roxanne walks into the bar. One moment, Mike is playing ‘Jersey Girl’ to her and the next he wakes up at the super swanky Savoy in London.
Gee whiz! Roxanne explains the operation in Trieste, the death of all her team including Faraday (Mike Colter) and the necessity of getting the list back before the world as we know it ends. Mike has two weeks (the same two that would have been spent writing the best man speech and organising the stag party) to get battle-ready — being a steelw.