Apparently we're supposed to root for people who make idiotic choices.

Rating: 1/10 (28 May 2013)

Why does Hollywood insist on making action movies without the benefit of a decent plot. Why do they keep making characters who act like they have an IQ of a block of wood. You're telling me that a man with the experience Sylvester Stallone's character is supposed to have in this business couldn't see what the entire audience saw coming, that Jean-Claude Van Damme's character was going to kill Liam Hemsworth's character. He is such a complete utter moronic idiot that he can't see what we all could see the minute the scene started. They make all the characters act like a bunch of wimps and totally roll over and do as they're told, but we're supposed to believe they are some of the most dangerous assassins in the world. So follow along with me, they're the smartest most dangerous assassins in the world, but they totally get taken in by one of the most obvious ploys and do nothing to defend themselves, just take it like a bunch of losers, give up the package and let their team mate get killed any way, but we're supposed to root for them. Because idiotic losers who make stupid choices are what we're supposed to root for. They seem to be confused with what an underdog is if that's what they were going for, underdogs are INCREDIBLY GIFTED AND SKILLED but just never catch a break or haven't had the opportunity to prove their worth yet. Incredibly gifted and skilled people would have never fallen for that ridiculously obvious ploy. How are we supposed to recover from thinking what a bunch of inept losers they are and root for them. They should have fired every writer on this staff when they read the first draft. Heroes don't have to be stupid. In fact it's unlikely they'd ever have become the team we're supposed to believe they are if they were ever that stupid. I would like to give the movie much more than a 1 out of 10 based on the action scenes because a lot of them were really quite good. I just can't get past the drivel that's supposed to pass for a script or plot. I miss the days when action heroes were actually written as smart, skilled, intelligent people instead of dim witted meat heads who create situations because of their actions and then get all enraged. How about giving them legitimate reasons to go after someone instead of manufacturing ridiculous ones that make the protagonists look like morons. The plutonium and the destruction it would cause wasn't enough to warrant them going after them, of course not, because that makes sense. We can't have an action hero these days that actually does something sensible. They have to totally screw the situation up then spend the whole movie fixing it, because stupid people always become tops in their field, right?