Ridiculous piece of rubbish

Rating: 2/10 (25 October 2010)

After hearing some pretty good things about this movie, I was horribly disappointed. Bruce Willis I can understand....Richard Dreyfuss, yes. And John Malkovich I can somewhat comprehend since he was playing his usual whacked-out role.
But Helen Mirren and Morgan Freeman? What on earth possessed these fine actors to appear in a film that was nothing more than over-the-top, shoot-it-up, totally contrived and uninteresting material? I have to laugh at the memory of the glamorous Ms Mirren draped in an elegant floor-length evening gown, wielding an enormous machine gun and donning combat boots. Get the picture? Actually, you'd be better off not getting the picture. When the movie opened, the first 20 minutes had me captivated as it looked as though it would turn out to be a well-made film with a different type of angle.
Then I thought it must be developing into a spoof ("Airplane" style, perhaps) ... then I sank into the realization that it was really just trying too hard to impress and that the film-makers were quite impressed by themselves with the mediocre script, ridiculous antics and very expensive production.
Once John Malkovich makes an appearance, it's time to head for the door.