The Marine 3: Homefront

Not too fond of the opening narration. It sets the tone that I have to like the movie because it's about supporting the troops, but is it? Or is it just exploiting them like every movie seems to these days. It's like if I put some marine in my movie or something about a soldier it gets a higher score, automatically.

But you know what? Once that John Cougar Mellencamp- type song came on after the open narration, I knew then what type of homeland American movie I was getting into and just needed to accept that.

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I'm a fan of the Miz. I've never seen him wrestle, and more familiar with him as Mike from the Real World but I think its cool that someone from the show became big enough to star in his own movie.

But I think they are not sure about his star power as there is a big cast of characters doing a lot of things in the movie, making his part smaller.

Decent gun play makes for some cool actions sequences.

Neal McDonough also made a nice villain. He was sympathetic and unwavering in his cause. It's a pretty bad ass villain.

I actually saw the Marine 4 before I saw this one and as far as The Marine saga starring the Miz, number four is better than number three. Nothing beats the first one starring John Cena, but Marine three was just developing something for the Marine 4.

This movie really sucked so bad, but what can you expect from WWE studios. Apart from the Miz being in it and the older Sister having a NICE!!! Butt, the movie sucked. Same old cookie cutter plot from the previous Marines movies or better yet all the movies WWE makes. Seriously how hard it is to write a decent story plot. They waste money on set, location, and effects and they make the cheesiest, most predictable movies ever.

They seriously need to hire better writers for these movies. The Miz was okay at acting and so were the rest of the cast, but the story and dialog ruin everything.

The Marine 3: Homefront from the long running Marine series mark the first appearance of Mike 'The Miz' Mizanin as the main hero then the star of the series later on with two more sequels.The movie follow a U.S marine officer return to his hometown and as usual find himself in a deadly situation.The movie is well shot,the action scene is hard hitting and bloody with Mike on screen charm all over the place but the biggest problem of this movie is the bad guys.Seriously the bad guys motivation makes no sense at all from his standpoint i kinda guess but how can other guys follow him.Nonetheless it still a fun movie to waste time

It didn't take me long into watching "The Marine: Homefront" when I said, "I've seen this before." In fact, I repeated that phrase in my head A LOT during the entire ninety minutes this movie took. Clearly the story and various plot elements aren't very original. And there are plenty of plot stupidities, like the fact the bad guys often can't hear gunfire taking place just a short distance away, or that their number are being slowly eliminated. Actually, the unoriginality and the stupidity of the script didn't concern me that much - I can take such stuff in a movie like this as long as there is good and plentiful action. But this movie doesn't have any of that. In the first half of the movie, there is perhaps a minute's worth of action in total! While the second half of the movie has a lot more action, it isn't that well done. It's generic shooting and punch-ups, filmed without any skill to make it rise above routine. There's nothing much of interest in this movie, and the best praise I can give it is that it was shot in the Canadian province I live in (British Columbia) and gave some work to my fellow citizens in front of and behind the camera.

After watching the movie I'm actually very surprised at how much I liked it. In some scenes it's quite obvious that it's a low-budget-production with a simple script but that does not make it a bad movie at all. The actors were very solid and IMO Mike "Miz" Mizanin did a heck of a job in his acting debut. As shown in the extras, he clearly did his homework preparing for his part as a combat-proved Marine. But not the action-scenes really caught my attention but his actual acting-skills e.g. when arguing with his family where he showed genuine, credible emotion. The action-scenes were cool but I would have liked a couple more of them. :) So go on, buy the movie but do not expect it to be Oscar-worthy or something ... just enjoy!