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doesn't take itself seriously
After seeing advertisements that made this film look extremely cool with serious hardcore action, I was hoping for a movie that would turn out to be pretty cool altogether. Unfortunately, there is way too much corny humor that fails to be funny, and hurts the seriousness of the film. While Robert Patrick usually portrays a decent villain (specifically in Terminator 2), his character fails to come off as a tough one, thanks to the corny lines and attempt at humor the script forces him to serve. The same goes for the rest of his gang in the film. <
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>The story doesn't get any simpler than the one in the Marine. If you are looking for a movie with some plot and story, this is definetly not it. Its so simple that the only reason the main charcaters - John Triton (John Cena) and his wife Kate become entangled with the bad guys is simply for being at the wrong place at the wrong time. John's wife is kidnapped about 1/3 of the way through the film, and the last 2/3 of the film is set looking for her and killing off the bad guys one by one. <
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>The Marine is basically action to the extreme, nothing more and nothing less. There are unbelievable amounts of explosions in this one, a really good car chase, and some great Cena fist-pounding one on one's. Cena even gets to fight Patrick in the end, which was a bit of a surprise, seeing that Patrick has obviously aged since his T2 days. The fight actually is pretty even, thanks to numerous items to be used as weapons at Patrick's disposal. <
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>As an action movie, its great for the action scenes, but everything else is below par. The villains are not impressive, and Cena is not used to what I think could be his fullest. There is no story and the corny humor basically ruins everything. The only funny line I found was when one of the guys says that Cena is like "The Terminator" in the presence of Robert Patrick. Turns out ot be less of a movie than I, and probably many were expecting.

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Rent it first - you've been warned.
This movie is almost a joke. The beginning starts off quite nicely with our "Marine" taking down 9 terrorist with a machine gun and hand-to-hand combat, without even being touched. The problem is later in the movie our same "Marine" is knocked down with a fire extinguisher, a branch, and a bar. Apparently terrorists trained in the military with machine guns are much less capable than a man with a fire extinguisher. <
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>Second, the "Marine" was knocked unconscious by both the fire extinguisher and tree branch yet being punched hard multiple times tied to a chair, he is left un-phased. <
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>Third, our "Marine" seems to get punched a lot for being such a skilled fighter. Even going up against hill billies he gets thrown through a table. Which also shows hill billies are skilled in hand to hand combat, a reality this movie taught me. <
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>Fourth, no one seems to care that our well respected "Marine" leaves a wounded cop unattended and steals a cop car. Throughout the movie he causes hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage without being reprimanded. <
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>Fifth, a good portion of the movie consist of our "Marine" following people through the woods. That's it.... Wow.... Exciting..... <
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>Sixth, our marine jumps out of a flaming car over the edge of a cliff. 10 minutes later he is walking on land. Apparently it is left to our imagination how marines can fly. <
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>Seventh, When our "Marine" gives CPR its just pathetic. It looks funny to begin with because John Cena's arms are as big as his wifes body, but its even worse because he doesn't do CPR right to begin with. <
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>I'll be fair, there were good fight scenes. There was a girl-girl fight scene (which lasted about 1 minute) though it was much more entertaining than the WWE girl-girl "matches". This movie was not action packed, it had action, but was not action packed. <
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Run Cena Run!
Thank god I borrowed this movie from my roommate. I doubt I would have ever even rented it if I was back in the states (I'm in Iraq right now). This is going to be a short review for a pretty bad movie. <
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>Before you read my review, please take not that I'm an action movie fan. Whether it's a good one with a pretty decent plot or a fun one where you can drink and laugh to it with its whack out plot and crazy actions scenes. This movie just fell short of anything fun or good. <
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>The beginning intro with Cena rescuing some marine buddies was action packed but choreographed horribly. It looked incredibly fake. My hopes for a decent movie faded quickly. <
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>One of the cooler parts of the movie was a bank heist that was led by Rome (Robert Patrick better known as T1000 from T2). If it wasn't for the horrible direction and script, Patrick would've pulled this character off in a very cool way. This scene gave me hope for an ok movie to maybe get a little drunk to and laugh at the over the top action scenes. <
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>Then comes the kidnapping. It felt like 40 minutes of the movie we watched Cena run and jump through the woods trying to rescue his girl from the bad guys. Pretty annoying. <
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>Then we see the bad guys take refuge in an abandoned bar in the middle of a swamp that the police were JUST in. Honestly I believe there would've been cops that would've stayed there JUST in case this exact scenario would have happened...but whatever... I dont expect common sense to happen in action movies... especially bad ones like this. So we have Cena taking out bad guy after bad guy here till the oh so predictable twist of the movie happens. <
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>If you like explosions, trust me about this, you'll see massive ones every 25 minutes of the movie it seems like. <
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>Also Kate (Kelly Carlson from Nip/Tuck) played a pretty good part for such a bad role. What really makes me irritated about her part though was that she gave the bad guys SUCH hell that there is no way they wouldn't have just killed her to get rid of the crap she was putting them through. Like I said earlier, I dont mind cheese in bad action movies, but this was just driving me nuts. <
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>I gave it 2 stars mainly for Robert Patrick. Like I said earlier, he played his part as well as he could for the craptastic script. I would love to see him with a similar role in a movie that's in better hands. <
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