- Actors: Mike 'The Miz' Mizanin, Shawn Michaels, Rebecca Quin
- Director: James Nunn
- Format: Closed-captioned, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language: English
- Subtitles: French, Portuguese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Thai, Spanish, English, Japanese
- Dubbed: French, Japanese, English
- Region: Region 1
- Number of discs: 1
- Rated: R
- Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- DVD Release Date: November 13, 2018
- Digital Copy Expiration Date: December 31, 2020
- Run Time: 85 minutes
Continuing the
tradition of the franchise with mindless obedience, the latest installment in The Marine series is indistinguishable
from the rest, with the exception of a single twist that is more likely to
impact future sequels than this one. Following the original theatrical film
starring John Cena and its first sequel with a relatively unknown WWE cast member,
each future installment has starred Mike “The Miz” Mizanin as former marine
Jake Carter. Whether working private security, as an EMT, or simply on
vacation, Jake always seems to be in the wrong place at the right time,
allowing him to use his training to save lives.
This time Jake just
coincidentally walks in on a gang of international criminals holding a girl
hostage in a remote abandoned building. This contrived set-up allows for the
usual narrative structure for the franchise, with a marine outnumbered in a
isolated location against a bunch of bad actors with inconsistent accents. In slight
contrast to previous installments, Jake is given back-up in the form of Luke
Trapper (Shawn Michaels), who also provides some of the film’s comedic relief in
the form of poorly-written banter. The two of them are visiting a homeless
veteran when they stumble on a kidnapping plot being used to blackmail a juror
in a high profile trial.
Jake and Luke
are able to rescue the kidnapped girl (Louisa Connolly-Burnham) without too
much trouble, but the gang of criminals lock down the building and block all
exits. Like the parking garage from one of the previous installments, or the
building in Die Hard (which is clearly
the model many action films have since utilized), they are trapped and forced
to fight their way out of the building by taking the bad guys out one at a
time. This basically just provides an excuse for plenty of hand-to-hand fight
scenes, so that the WWE cast members can use their only real skills in order to
try and make the audience forget about the dialogue scenes.
Among the worst of the wrestlers-turned-actors
is villain Maddy Hayes (a.k.a. Becky Lynch), whose Irish accent is painfully
inconsistent from one scene to the next, despite actually being Irish. The
worst of the acting comes when the film attempts to fabricate an emotional
response with poorly written drama. These films work best when audiences aren’t
asked to take them seriously. This one goes so far as to end with a tribute
montage for a fictional character.
The DVD release includes two making-of
featurettes, as well as including a digital copy of the film. The two extras on
the disc are fairly generic promo featurettes about the cast and the fight
choreography.
Entertainment Value:
4/10
Quality of
Filmmaking: 3.5/10
Historical
Significance: 2/10
Special Features: 3/10
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