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The Marine | 2006 | PG-13 | - 5.7.5

John Cena stars as a decorated Marine who's discharged for not following orders, after saving fellow Marines from their captors. However, civilian life has its own challenges when during a road trip his wife is kidnapped by criminals and he has to use his military skills to save her. Also with Kelly Carlson, Drew Powell, Robert Patrick and Jeff Chase. Directed by John Bonito [1:33]

SEX/NUDITY 5 - A husband and wife kiss, he carries her into a bedroom, lays her on a bed, they kiss again and it is implied that they have sex.
 A wife wearing bra and panties sits on a counter top and her husband, who is bare-chested, picks her up and carries her out of the room (it is implied that they have sex).
 A man and a woman kiss passionately, he caresses her clothed body, she removes her dress (we see her legs and stocking tops), and the scene ends with the man being interrupted by a phone call.
 A woman climbs on a man's lap and kisses him while he's driving. A husband and wife kiss in several scenes.
 A woman wears a bikini that reveals bare buttocks, cleavage, and bare abdomen. Women wear low-cut tops that reveal cleavage in several scenes.
 A man talks about a woman being "hot."

VIOLENCE/GORE 7 - Several Marines are held by enemies with guns, bound and on their knees, and they are kicked; another Marine charges in firing, there's shooting back and forth and hand-to-hand combat, and many are killed (there's no blood): one man is shot through the back, a man steps on the face of another (we hear a crunch and blood sprays), and there are many explosions.
 A woman is pulled out of a moving truck and into the path of another oncoming truck (glass shatters and blood splatters).
 Two men are shot (we see blood spurt and spray on a car windshield) and another man is shot and falls back.
 A car with a woman locked inside crashes into water, she struggles to get out, a man dives into water to try to free her, and she twitches and then floats motionless.
 A man shoots another man, and a woman shoots a man in a truck and steals it.
 An alligator pulls the clothes off a dead body (we see thrashing and see the clothes in the alligator's mouth). A dead man covered with a sheet is uncovered and photographed (we see the dead man's face).
 Two men fight: one is struck with a sledgehammer, the other is struck repeatedly with a metal pole, one attacks the other with a chainsaw (no cuts), and one is trapped in an explosion.
 A man with badly charred skin attacks a man, wrapping a chain around his neck, and they struggle briefly until one is killed.
 Two men fight with punching and kicking, and one man stabs the other man in the stomach. Two men fight, one is lifted in the air and thrown to the ground, and the other man jumps on him and we hear a crunch. Two men fight with two other men, and one is thrown through a glass window and another crashes through a glass table.
 A man attacks a security guard in a diamond showroom, he kicks him in the knee and kicks him in the head (he falls unconscious), and then holds a gun on the customers in the showroom. A man is struck with a fire extinguisher and falls to the ground unconscious.
 A man shoots at police cars, and another man fires a rocket launcher that causes a police car to explode and be thrown into the air. A truck rams a car, both drive through a construction zone, a piece of construction equipment pulls the roof off one of the cars, one car jumps over the other, and it is shot and explodes mid-air. A man is thrown out of a building when it explodes. A gas station explodes sending large flames into the air.
 A man holds a gun on a man who forces him to the ground, takes the gun away and races away in a boat.
 A man drives recklessly trying to catch up with another car, and when he does the first car's occupants shoot many bullets at the second car.
 A woman is grabbed, held at gunpoint and taken hostage. A man holds a gun on a man. A woman is forced into the trunk of a car.
 A woman smacks a man, a woman holds a gun to another woman's face, a woman strikes another woman in the face, and a woman slaps another woman in the face.
 Snakes slither in swamps. We see blood on a tree where a man had been shot.
 A man yells at a woman. A man is frisked by another man.

LANGUAGE 5 - 1 F-word, 3 sexual references, 3 scatological terms, 4 anatomical terms, 14 mild obscenities, name-calling (psycho, pork-chop).

SUBSTANCE USE - People are shown drinking alcohol in a bar scene.

DISCUSSION TOPICS - The Iraq war, Al Qaeda, insubordination, military rules, racism, love, vigilantism.

MESSAGE - Military training can come in handy.

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