"...you got any ideas that won't get us killed?"

Rating: 7/10 (12 October 2018)

The people who pan this movie just don't get it. This film comes close, and maybe even is, a wild spoof of the action/adventure genre. The screenwriters, along with Stallone, put as much cliched and self referential dialog into the story as possible for fans who just can't get enough of this stuff. My favorite exchange occurred when Ahnold and Willis traded lines from their respective movies - Willis: "You'll be back enough, I'll be back". To which Schwarzenegger's character replies "Yippie-ki-yay", (but without the m...f...).
All of the gang is back from the original picture, and anyone who felt cheated by the quick spots by Arnold and Bruce Willis in that one, they made up for it here. With additional help from Chuck Norris, and on the bad guy side, Jean-Claude Van Damme as the principal villain, or Vilain as it were. I was a little disappointed he was the main thug behind the Sangs in this story, but what the heck, this wasn't for mensa candidates. These guys couldn't help themselves putting on their serious game faces and just wallowing in the gunfire and mounting dead bodies. You have to hand it to Stallone, I don't think I've seen him as ripped in a picture since Rocky III. Which reminds me, it might have been a good idea to get Terry Bollea in this picture as long as they were going for so much muscle.
In any event, don't look here if you're after intellectual movie fare. Like that airplane maneuver into the Sang mountain headquarters. That could work in real life, couldn't it?