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The Marine

 Starring: John Cena

 Directed by: John Bonito

 Rated PG-13

 Genre: Action

 Synopsis: Marine John Tritan was dismissed from the corps for disobeying an order. His wife decides they need a vacation, but on there way she gets kidnapped by a jewel thief. Now John Tritan must find her before it's too late.

 My Thoughts: This is the second release from WWE films. I was hoping that it would tell a decent story with some good action, I was wrong.

   Scorecard

     Acting- John Cena should stick to wrestling. His acting was wooden at best as John Triton, personally, I think that he could be a good supporter, but was terrible as the leading man. Robert Patrick as the jewel thief Rome was pretty gaudy at best, he seemed to be trying too hard to be a funny type asshole, and it just didn't work. (0)

     Direction- It is very hard to screw this direction up. This movie is a single line going straight ahead. But with the really bad "Real-Time-Action" camera work, you really couldn't follow much of the action. Explosions when they really weren't needed, and expected heel turns that would make Vince Russo happy. I still have to scratch my head at how this was screwed up this badly. (0)

     Story- We have all seen it before. Tough guy gets something of his taken, and he tries to get it back,  stuff get blown up in the process. Nothing special. This story would have been better if there was more originality to it. (0)

     Expectations- I expected this film to be bad. I wasn't disappointed either. It was bad. (1/2)

     Boring?- From a guys stand-point, I really can't say that this movie was boring. Did it have me rolling my eyes at times? Yes. But, the film was not boring per se it was just very predictable, and that hurts the rating in my opinion. (1/2)

   Final Score: 1 out of 5

 Final Thoughts: My friend Sandy was right, this film shouldn't have been called The Marine. There was little to do with the Marines themselves. He was just a tough guy that happened to be a Marine, this film should have been called "The Really Tough Guy You Don't Want to Mess With" or something like that. So people, avoid this movie, unless you really have nothing better to do, and even then, I would reconsider your options.

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