Average and easy to forget

Rating: 6/10 (6 November 2010)

This is just your average run-of-the mill action film: nothing new or too exciting. For a film about spies there is actually very little espionage and intelligence going on. For a movie that doesn't take itself seriously it is also disappointing not having one really good laugh. Your average episode of Chuck has 10 times as much humor as this whole movie.
To make things worse, Mary-Louise Parker is extremely annoying. Willis and Freeman display nothing but routine. Malkovich is as painfully unfunny as the entire film.
Still, I liked some action parts as well as seeing Helen Mirren with various automatic rifles. And the film is slightly better than the extremely poor The Expendables. It would be very OK to skip this one.