Much Less Than I Expected, (and I didn't expect much)

Rating: 4/10 (23 February 2011)

All the great action sequences in the world cannot save a movie that has no character. With all the veteran talent coming together I expected a lot more character, humour, and perhaps a bit of a developed story. I didn't get a lot of this. Instead I got the feel that a lot of the dialogue was improvised - which is the difference between stand-up comedy and comedy improv. I got the feeling that there was not a whole lot of chemistry amongst these guys that we are supposed to be cheering for. The great Bruce Willis was given a role that was so far beneath his abilities and talent that it left me feeling a bit confused as to how this script was written. They try for a little mock sentimentality in the character portrayed by Mickey Rourke but this doesn't really fly either within the 1-dimensional action storyline. The irony is that it is usually in the nature of these movies that anyone speaking English with an accent is a bad guy; well the worst butchering of the English language in this movie comes from the mumbling protagonists.