Barney and Biggles - two guys saving the world with a flying boat.........

Rating: 7/10 (7 March 2018)

Of course Flying Officert/Major/Captain/Inspector Bigglesworth(depending on which stage of his career you find him at) was meant to be a hero to British schoolboys especially those who would be tasked with keeping The Empire running later in life.
Presumably this is not so with Mr Stallone's Barney Ross(named after the boxer - biopic "Monkey on my back"?) .
Although to be fair to him ,in the opening scene he displays the patience of a saint in dealing with a psycho pirate.
But,once he goes..he goes.
And whilst Biggles can rely on his chums Algy,Ginger and Bertie,Barney has really only Jason Statham to help him annihilate a dictator's private army.
Wearing only jeans and a tee shirt Mr Statham finds an endless supply of throwing knives which hit their target unerringly during their first encounter with the enemy.
Biggles thought knives were the province of the slightly shady "foreigner" and,to the best of my knowledge of the canon never resorted to their use.
There is a plot - beloved of movie makers for the last thirty five years - involving ex - CIA men who Barney has promised current CIA man(Bruce Willis)
terminate with extreme prejudice.
Just so you know you've not been transported back to 1985 there's a waterboarding scene.
"The Expendables" is an action movie.That is its raison d'etre.
The one character that had remotely any depth was Mr Mickey Rourke,much maligned and misunderstood in my opinion.
I was pleased to see him.However briefly.
I loved the "Tom and Jerry" violence,the satisfying explosions,the total lack of logic.....it's a bloke thing.
Half the population are too smart to fall for it,I guess.