Review of Jarhead 3: The Siege (2016) by Joseph D — 12 Jun 2016

It was a typical "Jarhead" movie... It's a bunch of marines fighting bad guys. It's not a bad movie but it's not "The Longest Day" either.

The movie takes place in a US Embassy in the Middle East. The lead character has just been assigned to the guard detail at the Embassy. After a slow start, with the lead character being introduced to everyone else at the Embassy, "Jarhead 3" finally starts to get interesting when the lead character's suspicions that the Embassy is going to be attacked are confirmed. The rest of the movie is action packed with plenty of gun firing and some hand to hand combat. In the end, the marines prevail and good defeats evil.

The lead actor (Scott Adkins) did a good job portraying a gung-ho marine. He leads his fellow Embassy marines against the terrorist attack on the Embassy. The rest of the cast members were OK at best as supporting actors/actresses in this movie and none of them stood out aside from the lead actor.

"Jarhead 3" tries to make a political statement that not all Middle Easterners are terrorists - in fact, many Middle Easterners want to help Americans or become more Americanized. Unfortunately, I watched this movie following the June Orlando night club massacre attack by an ISIS follower so I found myself as a patriotic American not wanting to believe in friendly Middle Easterners. This sentiment, I believe, is felt by many Americans.

There was plenty of action to keep me interested so this gets a good rating.