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The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

I like the concept of cops and robbers. Throw in a heist and off we go. Add a back-story and really gets interesting. Add more stories on top of that and you lose me entirely making go back to the first premise of cops and robbers. Good movie except at some point you ask what is going on? I am still not sure what role Bruce Willis plays either. Watchable but pay attention or you will be writing a review like this one. By the way, I have seen it twice and still had to find out what was going on especially in the end. Enjoy

Ohmygod, what a mess. How can grown men make such a mess.Let's start with the cast. WWE Hall-of-Fame Wrestler Batista in a crime movie, playing a detective? He'd be much better typecast as a bad guy. Then there's the FBI Special Agent, most recently seen with Jayne Mansfield's daughter in TV's Law and Order, now mad at the world, looking like he needs a shave and a few good stiff drinks. Bruce Willis destroying his glass office table with a baseball bat, no doubt in anger for getting cast in this disaster. The rest of the cast look like Disney animatronic dummies, except the Disney dummies show more life and a better script.Next, the plot. What plot? I replayed a few parts of the movie and read the Wikepedia plot explanation several times, and still can't figure it out. Obviously, neither can the other reviewers...just read their reviews. The key guys wind up conveniently in the same cafe in Mexico on the same day, to try and bring this mess to an end. But how can you have an end, when there is no beginning and no middle. Here's a clue: THERE IS NO PLOT.Finally, the action. If you like seeing a bank heist conducted like a poorly executed military raid, with the added nonsense of cheap Halloween masks and issuing voice commands through a Google watch, OK, admit you're hopelessly addicted to playing video games on smart phones (clearly the intended audience).Wikepedia mentions the revenues hit $1.6 million. Wow. Not mentioned is how much it cost to make this flop, but you can bet, with Willis' minimum fee of $1-million per movie, it lost a great deal of money. There's hope yet for movie audiences if they can recognize and ignore trash when they see it.

Okay I will start by saying the only reason I watched this movie was because Bruce Willis was on the cover of the poster and was #1 billed. I am a huge Bruce Willis fan having seen all of his classic movies like Hart's War, Hostage, 16 Blocks, Cop Out, Red, Extraction, etc. It was on Netflix so I though "Why not?"Marauders is nothing but a convoluted mess of a movie and that's coming from a fan of someone who had very little expectations with the plot. But no, everything that happens is just convoluted and you can tell the writing is weak with each new subplot they throw at you. If you're a fan of Bruce Willis like me, then I am very sorry but you will be disappointed. He is barely in the film and he looks like he isn't even trying. I hated the lead actors and wanted them all to die. Note to casting directors. Dave Bautista is a piece of bullocks actor and Adrian Grenier (the douche from Entourage) still can't act. Stop trying to make him a thing. Oh and the big "surprise twist" in the end isn't even good. By this point we simply do not care.Bottom line. This movie is terrible. It features way too little subplots and characters that we do not care for. In the end you may ask yourself "Why did I watch this movie?" and "What exactly was this movie even about?". Trust me. Do not watch this convoluted excuse of a movie. But if you do, be warned for yourself and expect the least.

The premise of Marauders is too stale, and that's worsened by redundant characters, a story with no rhyme or reason and dialogues which consist of tedious arguments with multiple variations of the "F" word, because the characters are laughably tough. I have to clear out the rude language isn't the real problem, but just a symptom of the lack of imagination of the screenplay. Despite so many arguments and violent clashes between the huge egos of the characters, Marauders goes by with an unbearable slowness, revealing obvious "secrets" which don't draw the attention or form a coherent story. What is more, the performances from Christopher Meloni, Bruce Willis, Adrian Grenier and Dave Bautista feel poor and listless. Regarding the women, they are relegated absolutely generic roles; among them: policewoman with a horsetail; sick wife; and blonde reporter. As regards the action scenes, they lack any excitement or emotional context to bring them dramatic relevance. In summary, Marauders is a horrible movie, and an absolute waste of time.