The Marine 5 Battleground is fun

The fifth Marine movie stars Mike “the Miz” Mizanin as Jake Carter and Jake is now working as paramedic. (I saw the Marine 4 but did not review it.) He and his partner get a call that take them to an abanded parking lot of an amusement park. They find a gunshot victim and there is a biker gang out to kill him. Jake must use his skills to try to keep himself, his partner, and their patient alive.

I like the fight scenes and when the action moves to the abandoned amusement park that was fun. Cellphones don’t work in the parking lot and later the bad guys take out a nearby cell tower, so the movie explains why Jake and his partner cannot call for help. (A lot of movies need to create plot points to explain why the characters don’t use cellphones to get help.)

Mike the Miz Mizanin might not be as good of an actor as Dave Bautista or Dwayne Johnson but I think the Miz is better than some athletes turned action heroes. Also he seems sincere or earnest, which are good qualities for an action hero. The villains are awful people. It probably helps that the movies in this series are under two hours.

This is the third movie I’ve seen in this series and so far there have been no romantic subplots. Even Bumblebee has a romantic subplot.





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