Every John Cena Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

3. The Wall (2017)

John Cena The Wall
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The Wall came with a lot of hype: on paper, a tightly-focused drama about two soldiers pinned down by sniper fire in the desert should have been a great compelling watch, but the execution wasn't quite as good as it could have been.

In truth, the film - which features Cena as a US army soldier who is shot by an Iraqi sniper and left for dead as his partner (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) - is pretty good up until the very end. But then director Doug Liman shoots too blatantly for a downer "war is bad" ending, and it all unravels to leave a terribly bitter after-taste.

Cena is good as Matthews, and you really care when he is in grave peril, but it's hard to remember much all that fondly in the wake of the ass-pull ending. Maybe just turn it off with about 10 minutes to go...

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