Lots of fun but its more like Cannonball Run with explosions then a fully satisfying film

Rating: 5/10 (7 September 2010)

Sylvester Stallone brings together a whole slew of present and former action stars in the story of a group of mercenaries who are hired to free a small South American island from the control of the evil Eric Roberts. Actually it's something like that since the plot's mechanics come and go with an ease that is to be admired. Actually its not so much the plot that is the reason for being, it's the wise cracks and the action. The wise cracks mostly work and the action is big, loud and bloody. Lots of bullets are fired, most of Western civilization is blown up and CGI bodies are destroyed. Its definitely not Driving Miss Daisy. It's sadly also not a particularly good film. Yea it fun, but I really didn't need to pay 11 bucks to see this. It's kind of like a version of Cannonball Run with explosives, with its huge slate of stars matching up with the cast of the early 1980's Burt Reynolds film. If you see it you'll like it but you won't particularly like yourself for doing so since it tickles the basest parts of our nature.