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Since debuting a few years ago, WWE Films was supposed to be a great project where the WWE's top stars would have a more global audience by becoming movie stars. There were ideas for Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson to have many roles in WWE Films, yet he left before he could even have a chance.
Anyway, WWE has had four full length feature films in theaters which were: The Marine: starring John Cena, The Condemned: starring Steve Austin, See No Evil: starring Glen "Kane" Jacobs, and 12 Rounds: starring John Cena again.
Also they released some straight to DVD videos which were: Behind Enemy Lines Columbia: starring Ken Kennedy, and The Marine 2 (not released yet): starring Ted DiBiase Jr.
So I found some brief reviews from the viewers of these films online about these following movies before I continue my thoughts on the WWE Films. These were actual people's thoughts, not official reviews.
The Marine
Some crazed jewel thieves get trigger-happy in a gas station, and kidnap John Cena's wife. This is useful, as it adds the dangerous excitement of having an angry pro-wrestler chase them through South Carolina forests.
The Marine often feels like an oddball black comedy about a dysfunctional band of sociopaths, just masquerading as an action movie about one tough ex-Marine.
The story is minimal and the action is preposterous, but it doesn't try to be much else.
It has the air of garbage, but is kind of cute, despite the awful dialogue.
It is not particularly a bad film. It is just nothing special.
A delectably bad '80s-style actioner.
So bad that it's very nearly sublime.
It should come as no surprise to anyone that The Marine is bad. No, that's not bad as in "bad-ass". If you had high expectations for this film you're either a deluded wrestling fan or you just haven't been paying attention. Spending three seconds with the movie's trailer should have been enough to warn you off.
What is surprising is that The Marine isn't epically bad, it's not a stinker of mammoth proportions. It's merely crappy and all the credit for that should go to Robert Patrick and his gang of wacky villains.
These were some quotes on this film which you might have guessed, they do have some very poor reviews. I indeed did see this film and I did not find it very good. The bad guys were goofy and all these explosions and action seens are a little bit overdone.
Originally John Cena was not supposed to have this role, but he received it at the last second after Steve Austin could'nt do it. This was WWE Films first feature film, and it was indeed a "bad" movie.
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