Bottom line, cheesy , cheap and disappointing (Makes Derailed look better as a Van Damme movie...)

Rating: 1/10 (20 August 2012)

No plot, terrible CGI . It made Willis look like a bitch, it brought back Arnold only to saturate him in cheesy one liners that you could see from a mile away. I literally felt like I had watched this movie before while sitting there. I predicted the outcome of every scene that unfolded. I was only surprised once. It had no suspense for me because it was so predictable. The old airplane needs to pull up or it will crash type of thing over and over again. It doesn't take a genius to know they are going to clear the building in the airplane...No suspense, boring...
This movie lacks any true originality and it offers few surprises.
The solo careers of these actors have infinitely better films, plots, out of Bollywood. Hollywood is getting really cheap, redundant and unoriginal. This movie felt unexciting , uninspired.
The cast and crew didn't really shine, they didn't have any really radiant moments on screen, though a terrific cast they had their on screen charisma , and charm it was mostly wasted to a terrible script that had no plot, non stop action with little substance , suspense.
This movie offers no real thinking, surprises. It's rather sort of dull and there's nothing really remember able about it.
Especially the performance of Van Damme, who is a life time martial artist professional who gets so screwed at the end of the movie. He gets a death that is so weak and pathetic where he is basically treated like a submissive weak cast member and succumbs to death willingly . Stallone's ego is clearly in your face this movie and this old Van Damme , Stallone fall out is penned out. We're pretending FFS , whatever goes on between them shouldn't be on screen. It was like he succumbed to Stallone and was dominated and violated . It was terrible.
Just because it's Hollywood that doesn't make it good. The writing was atrocious and the characters were SILLY, they made chuck Norris look like a live action hero clown...I kid with you not when he showed up the good ,the bad and the ugly played for some bizarre reason . I was expecting him to have a clown nose or walk on water...
I could feel people around me cringing, but the blissful just laughed...the entire movie ...especially when people died...violently which can be entertaining but these people were gasping for air the entire movie. And that made me die a little inside...
They had horrible writing, cheesiness throughout, the CGI was so cheap...
If you want to see good films with these actors look to their independent careers, even see Bollywood. This was not a very good movie.
People argue it's the 80s, it's not the 80s anymore and this is a satire on films. Silly stupid fun action adventure movies in reality date back to the 60s if not sooner. This movie is just on another level of stupid and mindless , even than the 80s. And it has these horrific jokes that will give me nightmares where they reference real life and other films in the middle of major action sequences...Get on with old and goofy , we all like your films, PLEASE act in this one, don't talk about the good old days of your life, career in the real world . Did you forget your medication, you're filming a damn movie! I don't even know what to make of that, but it was done so poorly.
It was Van Damme's big return and they couldn't even put their egos aside to give him a decent fight scene. 3 Round house kicks in a row and then basically down hill from there, couldn't spread it out, make it more dramatic? FFS we're all pretending here, give us our money's worth. It was a horrible Van Damme movie... it makes Derailed look like a better movie ...
I was so disappointed.