Ah, Thailand. Home of LadyBoys, the Bangkok Chess Club, and the beautiful islands of the Andaman Sea. It was from these lush tropical locales that Francisco Scaramanga once tried to take over the world. Fortunately, James Bond was there to stop him. Since then, many other madmen have set their sights on domination, both locally and globally. Most of these loons happen to be filmmakers, who are keen to take advantage of the country’s exotic settings and in-general inexpensiveness by making modestly budgeted direct-to-video motion pictures.
One such flick is The Marine 2, a film produced by the prestigious WWE Studios. In case you are unaware of the existence of WWE Studios (and may the gods bless you if you are), it’s a splinter group of the famous World Wrestling Entertainment company (formerly the World Wrestling Federation, or WWF) — an organization that has been lowering IQs across the civilized world for decades now. The purpose of the WWE is simple: to showcase the absolute finest talent that there is in the field of big, dumb, beefy, sweaty guys who wrestle one another.
WWE’s testosterone-fueled tentacles first began their campaign of world domination via movies in 2002, when they co-produced The Rock’s The Scorpion King with Universal Studios. Since then, they’ve cranked out one seemingly similar film after another. All of these films have featured a popular (or rising) wrestling star in the lead role, and all of them assumed a chokehold on unsuspecting patrons who thought they were paying to see a real movie instead. Somehow, one of their solo-produced entries, 2006’s The Marine starring John Cena, managed to make it into theaters. I think it my have even made a dollar or two in the long run. And so, late 2009 marked the direct-to-video debut of The Marine 2.
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Article comments
1 - Siva
Dude,you got a predisposed opinion about wrestling, and that's really hurting the review. Try to do it without the unnecessary things..