The Marine (2006)

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This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Workmanlike action movie from WWE Films serves as an unoriginal and routine action vehicle for wrestler John Cena. Diamond thief Robert Patrick and his crew kidnap Cena's wife, which leads to the recently discharged marine chasing after Patrick and company through the backwoods of South Carolina. The action is competently produced and Cena is a decent enough of actor in a retro 80s musclebound action hero sort of way (i.e Stallone, Arnold, JCVD, etc.), which is a low bar, but as with those action heroes, he does have undeniable charisma, which he surely honed in the squared circle of the WWE. Overall, "The Marine" is nothing to go out of your way to see, but if you're in the mood for something that seems like a more bombastic version of "Walking Tall" it's not all that bad.

Mainline goes that retarded idiots are robbing diamonds, and they get a wife of the stuff guy as a hostage. They don't do anything with that hostage, but they keep her, because they want to gets beaten up (i don't find any other reason) by the husband of the hostage (the Marine). If they had released the hostage, the marine would have lost his interest to robbers. Stupid story.If you want to watch retards in action, check this out. Marines role is okay and his wifes, but those criminals are just retarded idiots.

A group of diamond thieves on the run kidnap the wife of a recently discharged marine who goes on a chase through the South Carolinian wilderness to retrieve her. The Marine is the first of the 5 Marine films that are all been produced by WWE it self and so far it's gotta be the worst of them all. First as good as Cena might be as a wrestler he is bad on picking scripts and this film is the perfect example, i mean common how in the hell does this film have Manu Bennett, Robert Patrick and John Cena and it's still a mess? First of all it's boring and slow and 2nd of all it has some dumb humor choices that i can't understand, Cena spends an entire film with a knife and not a single gun and although there are a couple of good moments of action and Patrick is great as the villain, there's nothing more to it than that. It tries to be Commando meets Rambo but it lacks both the tone, the jokes and the action of both of those films and in the end it's a disappointment for sure. (4/10)

At first I thought it might be a live-action movie, then I realized it was all a very realistically done cartoon.It's just plan terrible. It includes nothing you haven't seen a dozen or more times before. John Cena is a tall muscle man, all splanchnocranium and bulging biceps. He's taut but not graceful. It reminds me of an observation an anthropologist, Alice Brues, made of the gorilla: "He can kill anything he can catch but he can't catch anything." He and the other characters do a fairly decent job of acting, considering that they are nothing more than computer-generated images and their speech is digitally fabricated.The direction is worse. It belong back in the 1960s when seeing action filmed in slow motion was a novelty instead of a hoary cliché. Among the things you've seen before is the pursuit at high speed, several exploding fireballs, a room peppered with bullets, one bad guy shooting another because there may be the hint of betrayal, the good guy tied up and beaten, and -- well, everything. There is wit in some of the lines. It's as if the writers were dying to break out of this action flick straightjacket and write the comedy that the movie really is.The award for best performance and best lines goes to -- envelope, please -- Robert Patrick as the smooth, butyraceous leader of the greasy pack. He's always carefully dressed and polite. Oh, he knows his way around.The plot: the gang kidnaps Cena's wife. He pursues them and gets her back. That's more than the plot deserves.