A new low, very disappointing

Rating: 5/10 (16 November 2011)

It is not often for me to go to the cinema and be so bored and irritated as I was, watching this movie. I thought I was going to see something that was going to blow my mind, but instead this just blows. These actors, legends of the action genre deserve better than this, not to mention the viewers deserve better than this. I knew exactly(ish) what I was going to watch when I payed for the ticket: guns, explosions, blood, fighting and big muscles, and the thing is that I love those kind of movies. But there are action packet movies that can be done in a intelligent way and then there is just mindless action with no substance or originality. The story is a typical good guys vs bad guys story, the characters were totally uninteresting and the dialogs were full of clichés and could have been written better by a 9 year old child. The last 15-20 minutes were unbearable for me. Explosion after explosion, shooting not stop (Rambo style), unrealistic fights etc. The Schwarzenegger cameo was a nice touch but a few good scenes could not save this disaster. I just hope that Stallone will put a little more effort in the sequel.