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1. The Marine (2006)

A Marine (John Cena) chases a group of diamond thieves through the wilderness of South Carolina in order to rescue his wife.

I caught this film a short while ago at a film night with friends. This is definately a film that guys might enjoy more, as it has guns, cars and explosions in abundance. The action movie genre isnโ€™t a particular favourite of mine  and it was more entertaining during the course of the film listening to the other guys in the group discuss the logistics of the explosions.

There was a barely negligible plot and the nearly 100 minute run time really dragged at times. The script is terribly done and I found myself not really caring about what happened to the characters at all, despite the script trying to be funny at times and failing drastically. There was also a really extreme thread of American Patriotism in this film. I know Cenaโ€™s character is supposed to be a Marine, but it was so distracting and a bit on the nose really.

 

2. 12 Rounds (2009)

Plot: An infamous terrorist named Miles Jackson (Aidan Gillen) has arrived in New Orleans to do some work and pick up some fast funds. At the same time, federal authorities are aware of his situation and prepare to take him down, but Jackson is able to evade them with help from his girlfriend Erica (Taylor Cole). When the call goes out for assistance, police officer Danny Fisher (John Cena) and his partner respond.

Fisher notices Erica in a car, so the two pull her over and Fisherโ€™s partner takes a personal interest in the beautiful Erica. But then he is gunned down by Jackson, which leads to a shoot out in which Erica is killed, but Jackson is put behind bars. But one year later, it would seem Jackson has returned, as Fisherโ€™s girlfriend is kidnapped and unless he completes a series of tasks for her captor, he will lose her forever.

 

3. Legendary (2010)

Devon Graye plays Cal Chetley, a smart kid who excels at science and dreams of starting his own catfish farm. (Well, this is Oklahoma.) Cal lost his dad some years before, and his brother Mike (Cena) has been out of the family ever since.

Mike works the oil fields and never calls their mom (Patricia Clarkson, truly slumming it). But Cal wants to try his hand at the family sport, the one dad and later Mike excelled in โ€” high school wrestling. He ignores momโ€™s dismissive โ€œYouโ€™re a beanpoleโ€ and signs up. Then he hunts down Mike, who has to be persuaded-blackmailed into helping him.

Calโ€™s into the science of the sport. โ€œItโ€™s about leverage, mostly.โ€ Mike is all about the mat, the head games a wrestler can play and how to psyche yourself up. โ€œYour girlfriend is in the front seat of his car, and if you lose, sheโ€™s going home with him.โ€

Actually, Calโ€™s not-quite-girlfriend is the hyper-hormonal Luli (Madeleine Martin of TVโ€™s โ€œCalifornication.โ€). Sheโ€™s a motherless teen who is getting attention and a reputation for all the wrong reasons.

 

4. Fred: The Movie (2010)

Fred is in love with the girl next door, Judy (Pixie Lott). But his nemesis neighbor Kevin, thwarts all attempts Fred makes to see her, and when he finally succeeds in making it over to Judyโ€™s house โ€“ sheโ€™s moved!

With the advice of his super cool dad (John Cena), Fred embarks on an epic journey full of gut-busting fun to find her. So, jump in the kiddie pool and join Fred, Bertha (Jennette McCurdy), and the whole gang for โ€œFred: The Movieโ€.

 

5. The Reunion (2011)

The Reunion, a 2011 film, doesnโ€™t take itself too seriously, so there are some good, serious scenes and humor sprinkled lavishly throughout. The dialogue is snappy and well-delivered, and I cared about the characters. The heart of the story is the ruptured relationships between three brothers โ€” Sam (big John Cena), Leo (Ethan Embry), and Douglas (Boyd Holbrook) โ€” all with the same mean, abusive father, but different mothers who were never a part of their lives. Only their sister Nina (Amy Smart) holds the tenuous sibling threads together. When their father dies, unmourned by all but sister Nina, the old manโ€™s last wish, crucial to a hefty inheritance, is to bring the boys back into the family fold.

But the cop (Sam), and the bail bondsman (Leo), have too much that is broken in their background to even think about mending the cracks. Their youngest brother, Douglas, doesnโ€™t come with any prehistorical baggage, because he never grew up with them. Only Nina knew he existed. But they tried to keep the kid at armโ€™s length because he was a thief and just got out of prison. Leo, the talker, dubbed him Little Joe, after the Bonanza character the kid had never heard of. โ€œDidnโ€™t you get Nick at Nite in prison?โ€ asks Leo, appalled. He tells the kid itโ€™s about three brothers with the same father, but different mothers, just like them. Then Leo and Sam fight over who is or isnโ€™t Hoss Cartwright. But the kid, who is so likeable and endearing, has always wanted a real family and tries awkwardly to keep peace between big brooding Sam and little yapping Leo.

John Cena โ€“ I looked him up โ€” was/is a famous WWE wrestler. Since I try never even to look at a sweaty wrestler itโ€™s no wonder I never heard of him. But in spite of critics comparing him unfavorably to Dwayne โ€œThe Rockโ€ Johnson โ€” whose claim to movie fame comes mostly from personality and charisma โ€” I thought Cena was good, not because heโ€™s in any way, form, or fashion, a quote unquote great actor, but because he more than adequately filled the role he was called upon to fill.

 

6. Fred 2: Night of the Living Fred (2011)

Fred 2: Night of the Living Fred is the second movie in the movie trilogy and the sequel to Fred: The Movie. The movie follows Fred Figglehorn developing a relationship with his new music teacher, Mr. Devlin, who he suspects is a vampire.

The film received mixed to negative reviews; it was, however, considered an improvement over the original (although the alternative was impossible). The Nickelodeon TV premiere drew 5.7 million viewers.

It currently holds a 37% on Rotten Tomatoes and 2.4 out of 10 on IMDB.

 

7. Fred 3: Camp Fred (2012)

Following the last day of school, Fred Figglehorn reveals his hopes to attend a very popular and luxurious summer camp named Camp Superior, but his dreams are dashed when he learns his mother is sending him to Camp Iwannapeepee instead, a camp Fred finds horrible, with the camp bus driver admitting to reckless driving and mistaking Fred for Ted Twinklecorn. Upon arrival, he meets head counselor Floyd Spunkmeyer, and a host of other campers, Magoo, Chatter, Spoon and Dig, and is introduced to Oksana, a beautiful but incompetent Russian camp nurse.

Fred learns that Camp Iwannapeepee and Camp Superior have been competing in summer camp games for 69 years and that Superior has always won. Fred tries asking his imaginary father for advice, but tells him that he is on his own before disappearing. Fred also thinks he has unearthed a plot to drug the food of the Iwannapeepee campers, in order for a giant rat to eat their brains in a place called โ€œThe Rat Holeโ€. Avoiding the gruel, he instead eats hallucinogenic red berries, and throws up when the others find him. Fred learns that Magoo, Chatter, Spoon, and Dig go to โ€œThe Rat Holeโ€ because itโ€™s a hideout theyโ€™ve had since being in camp. The โ€œdrugโ€ that was put in the gruel was super-vitamins, because the gruel has no nutritional value. When he learns that his arch rival Kevin is on the team from Superior, Fred becomes determined to defeat the rival camp. When the competition begins, Camp Iwannapeepee falls behind in the contests.

After losing to Camp Superior for the day, everyone is down, and Magoo, Chatter, Spoon and Dig do not even want to go to their hideout. Fred, on the other hand, says that they are losers, but they are good at being the best at the bad and good things they do. When the camps play the next day, Fred and Camp Iwannapeepee win the next contests that come up, much to everyoneโ€™s surprise.

Kevin and Camp Superior perform a song-dance routine. When Kevinโ€™s friends say that they should stop Fred, Kevin laughs saying that Fred is horrible at singing, but has set up a tank of gruel to sabotage him just in case. Fred and Camp Iwannapeepee are nervous at first, but go on stage. Fred starts singing a made-up song of his own called โ€œThe Loser Songโ€. It starts making Kevin and the others laugh, but as the song progresses, it makes everyone, except the members of Camp Superior, start cheering with excitement. Kevin commands the gruel to hit Fred, but Diesel says it is stuck. Camp Iwannapeepee finally wins The Summer Camp Games and Fred gets off-stage, where Kevin furiously lashes out saying that โ€œFred never wins.โ€ Meanwhile, Diesel continues messing with the gruel blaster, and finally activates it after realizing it was not plugged in, resulting in Kevin losing his clothes and being laughed off-stage. As the campers leave the camp for the end of summer and prepare to go home, Fred tells his mom that he has made some new friends, and his mom has found a new man, a pizza delivery guy.

 

8. The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age SmackDown! (2015)

John Cena takes on behemoths like Brock Lesnar and the Big Show regularly in the wrestling ring, but the popular WWE wrestling superstar has to travel to the cartoon town of Bedrock to catch dinosaurs and bash boulders.

Cena joins colleagues such as Mark Henry, Daniel Bryan, Nikki and Brie Bella, the Undertaker and WWE head honcho Vince McMahon in caveman garb in the new animated film The Flintstones and WWE: Stone Age Smackdown. The movieโ€™s out today on Blu-ray and DVD from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and WWE Studios.

9. Trainwreck (2015)

Judd Apatowโ€™s latest comedy stars and is written by Amy Schumer, currently feted as the most raunchily outspoken woman in American entertainment. She plays Amy, a journalist and bacchanalian free spirit with a deep distrust of monogamy who begins to rethink her life after falling for Aaron (Bill Hader), a somewhat buttoned-up sports doctor.

Schumer is good company here, but doesnโ€™t play to the strengths of her standup routines, where the mixture of outrage, sang-froid delivery and mischievously cherubic looks add up to something much sharper. Hader is fun, with his cartoonishly angular face, as a gawky straitlaced type in the Jack Lemmon mould. And Tilda Swinton is very funny in yet another โ€œAs youโ€™ve never seen her before!โ€ transformation, playing a bottle-tanned, cockney-accented magazine editor โ€“ imagine a lightly sauteed Janet Street-Porter.

The film slightly suffers from Apatowโ€™s characteristic taste for improv and loose structure, never quite adding up to a coherent whole. The already controversial romcom redemption of Amyโ€™s inner โ€œnice girlโ€ is a big minus. But just as troubling is the way that Amy, who staunchly declares herself indifferent to sport โ€“ the ultimate American heresy โ€“ is finally made to join in and cheer with everyone else. Enjoyable enough, and certainly not a trainwreck โ€“ it just doesnโ€™t quite clear the platform.

10. Sisters (2015)

 

11. Surfโ€™s Up 2: WaveMania (2017)

12. The Wall (2017)
13. Daddyโ€™s Home 2 (2017)
14. Blockers (2018)
15. Bumblebee (2018)
16. Playing with Fire (2019)
17. Dolittle (2020)
18. F9: The Fast Saga (2021)
19. The Suicide Squad (2021)
20. Vacation Friends (2021)
21. Fast X (2023)
22. Freelance (2023)
23. Vacation Friends 2 (2023)
24. Argylle (2024)
25. Ricky Stanicky (2024)
26. Jackpot! (2024)

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