Product: The Marine (Unrated Edition) (2006)
Rating: 1.0
RIDICULOUS
Three or four years back, I wrote a screenplay about a Marine who comes back from IRAQ. He is struggling to adapt to civilian life and hold onto his relationship with his wife when she is abducted in a bank robbery.As his life crumbles and the police seem less interested in recovering his wife, he goes the vigilante route, tracking, interrogating and diving into dangerous situations, ultimately leading him to Las Vegas where he uncovers a large scale plot that is bigger than he or anyone could ever imagine.Other than the fact that my script is more complex and has better dialogue, the biggest difference between my script and THE MARINE is that the lead character in my script is REAL. A real, flesh and blood, human being Marine with vulnerabilities, emotions and he actually bleeds. He's a real person, like somebody you might know from your town who went to Iraq.While THE MARINE'S John Triton (John Cena) is bulletproof, explosion proof, dives through walls unscratched, hangs onto semi-trucks while it drives through buildings and despite the bombardment of boards, pipes and tin sheets, he rolls off and groans before jumping up and kicking more butt. Not to mention, I don't think a scene goes by that he doesn't remind everybody that he's a Marine and it's the only thing he knows. By the way, the tin sheets would have severed him, easily.Oh, and of course the name Triton is appropriate to refer to John Cena as a Greek God or the largest moon of Neptune.Ridiculous is an understatement. This movie insults our intelligence with a symplistic, unrealistic, poorly written story. Deplorable acting from all involved. Was this movie trying to be a comedy? The jewl thieves are idiots and are more concerned with trying to be comedic than to try to come up with a plan to escape.The real shame is that my script is pretty well useless now. The creators of this movie make dozens of references to my script in the early goings and now my script is old news. Unfortunately, hollywood big wigs have put their MONEY behind THE MARINE, a silly, poorly written, poorly thought out, poorly acted piece of junk.You need more than dozens of unrealistic and over-the-top explosions to grab this reviewer. Unfortunately, I have a brain, and I need more from my action movie than this stupid movie that has absolutely nothing in it that is memorable or meritable.