Review: The Marine
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Mark’s Rating: 1.75 out of 5 stars
Friday, Ariesna and I were originally planning on having guests over. When we found out they were all canceling due to the weather; we hit up the video store and got a couple of movies. When we got home, the first one we watched was The Marine. I’d selected it because I remembered the trailers leading me to believe it would be a fun action flick. However after watching it, I have to declare it to be a steaming flaming pile of poo. From weak fight sequences to bad acting, this movie embodies the worst hackneyed and cliched parts of every C-movie action flick ever to be made. That being said if one watches this movie, thinking of it more like a parody of the genre (e.g. in the vein of Scary Movie) then it can be enjoyable. I spent the vast majority of the film’s 91 minutes laughing as cliche after cliche was perpetrated on the screen. I cannot, in good conscience, recommend this film to any one; though it could make the basis of a good drinking game (every one takes a shot for every cliche used in the film). However one would have to be careful with such a game to avoid getting alcohol poisoning!
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March 3rd, 2007 at 10:35 pm
My rite of passage was in 1982, when I saw the weakest fight scenes, the worst ‘acting’, and the most cliches per crapita ever stuffed into a movie. I’d stack what I consistently call THE worst movie I’ve EVER seen — Forced Vengeance — against your action movie, sight unseen. Of course, in a bet like that, nobody wins.
This was before I knew you could walk out of a movie and get a refund, and before I actually had a car to drive home from the theatre myself.
Chuck Norris can save Vietnam MIAs, but even he couldn’t save this film.
March 5th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
Sorry but that’s one bet I’m going not going to take you up on.