Remember WWF wrestling in the early nineties? Well the guy playing the lead role in this is the son of the "Million Dollar Man". Remember him? He had a guy called Virgil at ringside with him. Yeah, you know who I'm on about.In this film, Dibiase's son (also called Ted) plays a "Marine" who has to save a bunch of hostages taken captive by a madman. You can guess what happens in this end.If this was made in 1985, you could really see Chuck Norris doing it. Seems like the kind of film "Cannon Films" used to release in their pomp.

"Pistol Whipped" director Roel Reiné's "The Marine 2" with Ted DiBiase Jr., is an in-name only sequel to director John Bonito's "The Marine" (2006) with John Cena. The chief similarity between these two action epics is that an out-of-uniform Marine must rescue his wife from a gang of miscreants. In "The Marine" John Triton (John Cena) chases a gang of amoral diamond thieves to save his wife from them. In "The Marine 2," Joe Linwood (Ted DiBiase Jr., in his film debut) has to contend with a gang of heavily armed terrorists.Comparatively, "The Marine" boasted exciting action scenes with lots of over-the-top violence, whereas "The Marine 2" is less outgoing. There are neither car nor boat chases. Mind you, both heroes don't have it easy achieving their objective, but the villains in "The Marine" seemed more dangerous than the 'separatists' in "The Marine 2." Basically, "The Marine 2" is a "Die Hard" at an island resort where our brawny hero has to save twenty hostages from heavily armed gunmen who demand that the millionaire who bought the resort must fork over a 'tribute.' Translated, tribute here means ransom. Reiné and "Whisper" scenarist Christopher Borrelli along with freshman scribe John Chapin Morgan keep him busy after the opening 30 minutes trying to tell the good guys from the bad guys and surviving the explosives, martial arts, and bullets that he has to dodge.After a nightmare sniper mission that cost the life of an innocent bystander who was caught in a crossfire, Joe has two weeks off, so he accompanies his lovely wife Robin (Lara Cox of "Kangaroo Jack") to the Far East for a hotel resort opening. Robin works as a public relations representative for an arrogant author and businessman, Darren Conner (Robert Coleby of "The Phantom"), who has written a self-help bestseller. During the opening festivities, a local group of gunman, led by Damo (Temuera Morrison of "Couples Retreat"), crashes the party and take twenty hostages. Joe is off somewhere else when this takeover occurs. The military move in and establish a perimeter, but the government refuse to take action. The government representative dispatches a team of mercenaries to contend with the problem. As it turns out, the villains have somebody in the mercenary camp, and the attack to rescue the hostages fails miserably. Joe manages to kill a few villains, but he realizes too late that their efforts are useless because one of the mercenaries changed sides.Eventually, Joe is able to infiltrate the resort and eliminate guards until he discovers where his wife and Conner are being held. Although it takes a little time, Joe is able to kill them all, including Damo in a last-minute brawl on a ship that blows up. Joe emerges from the ordeal with some flesh wounds and Robin survives the nightmare without getting raped. All in all, "The Marine 2" is an average white-knuckled thriller with some moderately threatening villains. No, this direct-to-video movie doesn't surpass its predecessor, but it is entertaining enough—despite its predictability—to make it a tolerate potboiler. DiBiase is a better actor than John Cena, and the wife has an occupation, something that the wife in "The Marine" lacked.

this movie was actually worse than the first one. i gave the first one 1 star this movie deserves no stars. this is a waist of money. Ted dibiase was horrible in this. his acting was horrible and another question to the wwe. why put a wrestler thats not even close to star power in a movie like this. the plot was just boring. Ted dibiase mostly stayed in a safe camp site while his wife was held hostage. yeah he really cares about his wife. and when he did go try and save her the movie was over in 15, 20 minutes. at first i was surprised a sequel to a financially successful film was released direct to DVD. now i see why.i had high expectations for this film then i find out it is a piece of crap. don't see this movie.

I really love films like this. Although graphic novels are my favorite military movies are a close second. Wwe superstars have a good eye for taking on scripts that involve a lot of stunt work blowing stuff up and being an action hero. It wasn't as good as the first marine cuz John cena is the original of the marine making him better but John is also more hardcore then Ted. Ted on the other hand really impressed me with his performance he really made feel like he was a marine and for a director to feel a performance is good. Not to mention the fact that the entire film was shot on location no sets at an actual village in phuket. The director chose to shoot on location to give a sense of realism to the film. Ted was jumping through peoples houses on there furniture and everything and everything. The hotel was real there people on holiday there while the crew blew stuff up and Ted fought his way into the hotel it was a crazy but breathtaking way to shoot a picture. The amount of action in the film paces the story along at a nice speed as well. A great piece.