Marauders (2016)

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

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.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

I really loved the movie, pretty decent plot and you are really curious about the suspects

Maybe if I had shut the film off of my Blu Ray player after the first 10 minutes of the snap and crackle Marauders provided I may have been able to convince myself and Mrs. Shullivan that this is such an action filled film with a great in depth plot that we should just savor the first 10 minutes. We could have then maybe, just maybe "assumed" that the rest of the film was just as suspenseful and intriguing that we would get too over excited if we continued to watch anymore.But ohhhhhh noooooo, just like most avid film goers we wanted to see more and more action filled scenes with a great suspenseful plot. That was our big mistake. Have you ever invested in any expensive fireworks such as The Jesters Revenge or the cheaper holiday firework staple such as the Burning Schoolhouse, proceeded to light the wick with anticipation of a burst of flame and color only to see the wick flare up with nothing but five (5) seconds of smoke and a dull Pffffft sound? Well that is how Mrs Shullivan and I felt the film Marauders let us down.There was such a convoluted plot that it reminded me more of the classic comedy skit by Bud Abbott and Lou Costello titled "Whose On First?" Each time a bank robbery occurred, or there was a flashback scene to the war where the U.S. special ops force were under heavy artillery gunfire we were fed another bit of a different plot line.Oh but film director Steven C. Miller saved the worse scenes for the films ending. Mrs Shullivan and I just looked at each other and said simultaneously "Well that was a confusing waste of time that I will never watch again."My advice to both film stars Bruce Willis and Christopher Meloni would be for "Brucie Boy" to stick to making another sixth sequel to the Die Hard franchise, and for Christopher Meloni to go back with his tail between his legs and rejoin the cast of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit because that TV series has went so far downhill after his departure. There was no chemistry at all between Willis and Meloni and the ending went out with a wimper and no bang. Even the macho charisma of Dave Bautista could not save this film from stinking badly. I give the film a poor rating of 3 out of 10. It is not worth watching at all.

Ohmygod, what a mess. How can grown men make such a mess.Let's start with the cast. WWE Hall-of-Fame Wrestler Batista in a crime movie, playing a detective? He'd be much better typecast as a bad guy. Then there's the FBI Special Agent, most recently seen with Jayne Mansfield's daughter in TV's Law and Order, now mad at the world, looking like he needs a shave and a few good stiff drinks. Bruce Willis destroying his glass office table with a baseball bat, no doubt in anger for getting cast in this disaster. The rest of the cast look like Disney animatronic dummies, except the Disney dummies show more life and a better script.Next, the plot. What plot? I replayed a few parts of the movie and read the Wikepedia plot explanation several times, and still can't figure it out. Obviously, neither can the other reviewers...just read their reviews. The key guys wind up conveniently in the same cafe in Mexico on the same day, to try and bring this mess to an end. But how can you have an end, when there is no beginning and no middle. Here's a clue: THERE IS NO PLOT.Finally, the action. If you like seeing a bank heist conducted like a poorly executed military raid, with the added nonsense of cheap Halloween masks and issuing voice commands through a Google watch, OK, admit you're hopelessly addicted to playing video games on smart phones (clearly the intended audience).Wikepedia mentions the revenues hit $1.6 million. Wow. Not mentioned is how much it cost to make this flop, but you can bet, with Willis' minimum fee of $1-million per movie, it lost a great deal of money. There's hope yet for movie audiences if they can recognize and ignore trash when they see it.

This movie is so bad. The actors are good (Bruce Willies, The FBI agent and the actor from Entourage) but the movie is so predictable you have the feeling through the whole movie that you have seen this already. The script is really bad. Give this a miss and watch something else instead.