"Too many cooks, spoil the broth" -apparently this not only applies to food (and in some specific situations in life) but in movies as well.
Despite having mystery and conspiracy at every corner, "Marauders" fails to capture its audience with too many characters with their own motives and agendas.
The film opens with an impressive (and disturbing) bank heist, complete with scary masks straight out of a horror movie, glass breaking and some shotgun action.
What follows is the run-of-the-mill FBI Investigation in perpetually raining Cincinatti.
The audience is then thrown in a complicated web of law enforcement, where FBI Special agents and corrupt cops don't get along (surprise, surprise).
Investigation of the bank heist unearths long forgotten secrets and it seems that the masked perpetrators are not what they appear to be and the same goes for the "supposed victim" bank owner Jeffrey Hubert (Bruce Willis).
As FBI Special Agent Jonathan Montgomery (Christopher Meloni) goes deeper in what becomes a series of bank heists and realizes too late that the root of the bank heists are closer to him than he thought.
The film feels like a long episode of NCIS and while there are juicy secrets to uncover and it's fun to try and figure them out, the unravelling feels half-baked and the characters, which the writers and producers try too hard to have a sad back story, maybe so the audiences could like them more? Maybe to pull on some heart strings? Whatever the reason-it doesn't work and just adds to unnecessary plot lines.
There are some stories which you love solving the mysteries to, unfortunately "Mauraders" isn't one of them, as you seem to be getting a headache just trying to figure things out.
With Bruce Willis. Dave Bautista and Christopher Meloni in the cast, there seems to be too many bald guys.
3.5 out of 10, the perpetual Cincinatti rains, reflect the whole atmospher in the movie-dull and boring.
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