The Marine 5: Battleground (2017) Reviews

• Full of action that tries to have an important and meaningful story but ends up being a little cheesy

  cosmo_tiger2017-05-01

  "I'm sorry I called you down here. I'm sorry any of this happened. I was just trying to protect my daughter." Jake Carter (Mizanin) is adjusting to life outside the Marines and is working as an EMT. When him and his partner go to check out a call they find something much more than just a man in health trouble. This is a movie that gives you what you want, and doesn't try to be more than it is. This is a very good 15 minute story idea that is drug out into a full length movie. The moral and character issues the movie deals with are kind of glossed over, but that isn't that surprising in a movie like this. The movie is full of action that tries to have an important and meaningful story but ends up being a little cheesy and makes you wonder why they are helping this person. All that being said, no one watches those movies for the story and plot so if you are looking for an exciting action movie this is one for you. Overall, exactly what you are expecting. Nothing more, nothing less. I give this a B-.

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• Disappointing *Spoilers*

  matth-111932018-05-03

  I've seen all the Marine series and this one is a big let down! So carter is an ex marine a very decorated one that apparently has no hand to hand combat skills in any of these fight scenes taking a pretty good beating from all the people he comes up against until the very last fight scene on the rooftop. He also can't hit 3 targets in the open with an assaslt rifle in the fairground and the very last gun battle in the construction site he cycles all of his ammo at a huge pillar where bo is stood behind whilist no isn't even firing his weapon! All in all very disappointed with this film it's more of the writing/directing performance rather than the actors/actresses

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• I'm just a medic

  nogodnomasters2017-07-17

  Jake Carter (Mike Mizanin ) is back as an EMT. If you have missed the first four films we get a summary from his partner (Anna Van Hooft) : Two tours Afghanistan, Bronze Star, private security company. Now you are caught up. A couple of guys do a "hit" on the leader of the Lost Legion biker gang. We know these guys are tough because they wear black leather jackets with a skull on the back. They get bullet sprayed and pull into a parking garage of an off-season amusement park and call for help from a location where we find out later that cell phones don't work. Just saying. The biker gang follows, and we end up with a" P-2" hide-n-seek game for about an hour before they play cat and mouse outside. It was less than what I expected. I expected a quick parking garage scene, Miz, left for dead, then have him arm up with swagger music and go "Death Wish" all over the gang, solving the US heroin problem. Apparently they paid too much for the use of the park and had to film the entire movie there, one long fight scene. They had scenes that looked like they belonged in the ring, including the unreasonably long pauses between some moves. The production included an ax and blood splatter. Miz essentially has to kill other WWE guys dressed up as bikers. I was very disappointed in the script. Guide: No sex or nudity. No swearing as I recall, although rated "R" for language.

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• Pure fun. Its what it needs to be.

  frompagescreen2017-07-09

  Don't be put off by the '5' in the title. Whilst I am aware of The Marine series of films, this fifth installment is actually the first of the franchise films that I have seen, and whilst Jake Carter (played by Michael "The Miz" Mizanin ) also appears in parts 3 and 4, there is no need to have seen those films in order to get full enjoyment out of this crazy action packed film that could so easily be described as Sons of Anarchy meets The Warriors, with a dashing or five of the Die Hard films, all stirred up and given the slick work over that James Nunn brings to his films of late. I was a huge fan of his previous film Eliminators (starring Scott Adkins) and hoped that this film would be just as much enjoyment as that film, and I wasn't let down. The film is non stop entertainment from start to end. Even with the fact that most of the film is set in an underground car park not, this doesn't lessen the films enjoyment with some OTT villains, more bullets than a Rambo film (well maybe more more bullets than the 4th Rambo film, but thats a hard one to beat) , some great motorbike action, and some great fight sequences that you will expect from a WWE film. Also on the 'it needs to happen if its a WWE studios film' are some great supporting roles for other wrestling talents, such as Trinity Fatu, Maryse Mizanin,Heath Miller, Joe Hennig, and Taylor Rottunda all chewing the scenery with one thing in mind. Giving the audience the best show possible, and they do that wonderfully. I've seen some so called reviews that comment about some of aspects of The Marine 5:Battleground being far fetched but that's what I want from a film like this. I want fun, I want snappy dialogue that wouldn't be a stranger in an 80s Schwarzenegger film, I want kick ass women, bullet casings to fly all over the place,great fight scenes, and in the end I want to to be entertained. and Mr James Nunn has done it again with The Marine 5:Battleground. Now can someone please greenlight a new installment of The Purge franchise or a new Fast and Furious entry and let James Nunn work his magic.

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• If your looking for an action packed exciting movie, ignore this one

  mystiquious2018-04-25

  If your looking for an action packed exciting movie, ignore this one, it's so cheesy it's laughable. Ex marine (Mike "The Miz" Mizanin) now a paramedic on his first night on call to help a gun shot victim hiding out in a closed amusement park, soon finds himself fighting off a biker charter that are so stupid and idiotic they try to make the Miz look good, which most of the time seems futile as the moron can not act, but then none of this glorious cast cant either. A total snooze fest , might help if you have insomnia though.

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