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As to be expected with a WWE film, as the story takes us further there are explosions and fistfights followed by more even bigger explosions and fistfights. These repeated sequences quickly become the cinematic equivalent of a cartoon chase where they pass the same lamp, chair, and window over and over again. To watch The Marine, it will take more than a suspension of disbelief. The story and dialogue are written about as well as they are for Smackdown and Raw, just as a more violent soap opera, and the acting is equivalent. Many of the lines come off forced and over acted and the sequence of events doesn't exactly fit together like a puzzle.

The scene that takes place at the gas station for example: At one point a couple of cops show up in a marked sports car. After some shooting, one camera angle shows a flat tire on the cop's patrol car. Time elapses, the wife is kidnapped, stuff explodes (but not the car which is practically right next to the blazing pumps) and Cena runs through the fireball without a single burn and hops into the car. Amazingly, the heat from the explosion must have re-inflated that tire because for the next ten minutes there's a car chase with that same once obviously flat tire now intact. Wow, what a work of creative genius. Basically, if the studio removed the first five minutes and never mentioned the word "marine" again it could have been called The Unbelievable Journey of a Man on Steriods.

Not to mention that it takes an hour and a half, close to ten huge explosions, eight wall busting brawls, a beer bottle being broken on Cena's face, and the car chase, before finally- 90 minutes in- Robert Patrick's character breaks skin when he hits Triton in the face. That's the only thing that ends up injuring Cena.. No bruises, burns, broken bones, scrapes? nothing. It's unbelievable to say the least. Let's reflect back to Die Hard 2. At the end Bruce Willis was torn up, bleeding, limping, panting, the works. Was he really hurt' Did people believe everything that just happened, really happened' No. But that's why it's called "acting." It was real enough to be entertaining even without buying it. If The Marine happened in real life, Cena would have been sent to the hospital to recover after about thirty minutes. So why can't he play along and a least pretend to be pushing through some kind of pain (like he does in his day job)'

If anyone does well in this film it is Robert Patrick who definitely takes the words he is given and turns them into a character. Unfortunately, the strength of Patrick's maturity can't save the entire film, meaning The Marine needs to be locked up in the WWE vault and never be re-released or risk being court martialed. Chock full of unnecessary explosions, fights, and turns of events, one must only hope there will never be a sequel. Much like in the film, the movie The Marine needs to be dishonorably discharged.