Product: The Marine (Unrated Edition) (2006)
Rating: 3.0
Surprisingly good.
What a surprise. This film contains outstanding dialog. It's pretty funny. It does get boring later in the film, perhaps there's a lack of content or grounding, and the outstanding dialog seems to become average. The film makers seem to understand our boredom and presto change-o many car crashes and explosions. Their trickery seems to work.I will say this film does nothing for race relations. Especially if you take the film makers seriously. The black villain in the story is such a stereo-type of the bad guy obsessed with getting in touch with his blackness. Arch-type - that's what he is. Not a stereotype, but a stand in for all African Americans or rather, the personification of a certain ideology. Perhaps just a reality. This may be done intentionally, that's my opinion. He's not shown to be a reliable character in the film. Just be a person, not a Black man. Perhaps just avoid black men if possible. . . ? Building understanding. . . perhaps - but this film does nothing to improve race relations. Who said the Marines are about better race relations? At least we'd like to imagine they aren't.