Guess what? There is a lot of violence and explosions in this one!

Rating: 8/10 (26 November 2010)

Yeah, I am being rather sarcastic, anyone who could not figure this one was going to be explosive most likely does not watch all that many movies. In the end, I have to say it was a good movie, about what I expected. A team of mercenaries is hired to assassinate a general on an island in the Gulf. Things are not as they seem though as Sylvester Stallone's character feels bad that the daughter of the general did not leave with him and his buddy as they did a reconnaissance mission before the entire team left for the island. The action is really good, my only real complaint is the use of computer gore effects instead of the good old blood packs and other nifty tricks to make the mess a bit more splatty. Sylvester, Jason Stathan, Jet Li all do a rather good job, wish they featured Li a bit more considering he is one of the top billed characters. The best performance came from Dolph Lundgren. He is not the best actor or anything, but in certain roles he shines and he does so here as a member of Stallone's team that gets kicked off because he is becoming to unstable. The rest of the cast is good too and it was fun seeing Arnold, Bruce and Stallone together in a scene...most likely the last time that is going to happen so even if their scene was a tad pointless in some ways it was still fun. Stallone has shown a real knack for bringing back the hard action movie of the 80's and he does a good job here. If he just used real blood for gore effects I would have given it a nine.