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The Marine

John Cena is no Arnold
By TOM MEEK  |  October 18, 2006
1.0 1.0 Stars

WWE main attraction and Massachusetts native John Cena makes his movie debut in this jerky Commando-esque knockoff. Unlike the current governor of California, however, Cena doesn’t know he can’t act. Arnold punched out the awful dialogue with campy irony. Cena plays a jarhead named — get ready for it — John who’s a military lifer but gets discharged after impromptu heroics violate orders. He flounders in the real world until a well-groomed psychopath (Robert Patrick playing it loose) steals $12 million in diamonds, blows up half of South Carolina, and abducts John’s wife (Kelly Carlson, ever perfectly primped, even in the midst of a firefight). Issues of race and pedophilia oddly percolate, and director John Bonito convolutes the formulaic mayhem by concocting action sequences that make no logical sense whatsoever.

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