It was pretty much as expected.

Rating: 6/10 (30 August 2010)

First off, this was an action movie, nothing more nothing less. As such it was what I was expecting.
I guess the big thing was that it brought together a lot of action stars from past decades. That may have been one of its problems. There were a lot of stars, and not enough time to give those stars appropriate screen time.
Schwarzenegger and Willis made an appearance that had absolutely no action and was just as obviously to include them in the movie. If it marks them, returning to movies, that's fine, but for the most part it just affects six-degrees stats. The same might be said of Rourke's appearance. He had very little to contribute to the action, and was there to provide a weak excuse for Stallone's character to risk the second part of the movie.
The movie seemed to focus on the characters Ross and Christmas (played by Stallone and Statham). What little plot it had seemed to revolve around them and they were the only ones with a "romantic interest" in the entire film. They also seemed to have the most screen time.
I was a bit disappointed with Lundgren's part. He came across as just a dumb jock, rather than a burned out mercenary. He may have been picked to come across as not overly bright, but it actually seems to me as if he was miscast. cast.
Jet Li, though he had a lot of dialogue, was underused. He had some decent action, but he seemed to be too much of a whiner. A friend of mine, who watched the movie with me, said he had never seen Jet Li get beaten up so many times in a single movie.
Couture and Austin actually did a decent job. The lines weren't there, but the action was. Both of them had great fight scenes.
Terry Crews came across as a brighter Jayne (Reference: Firefly/Serenity). He had a few decent lines but little impact on the storyline.
One of the cool aspects of the movie was the hand-to-hand fighting. These fight scenes were relatively well choreographed and were very old-school. No wires, good fighting, use of environment (where applicable), and a certain amount of realism (meaning, yes, people actually get hurt).
As far as the rest of the movie; lots of explosions, very little plot development, actresses were only for show (neither one was a strong character), lots of gun fire, oh yeah and lots of explosions.
It's a weak movie, but a moderately good action flick. It's not the best action movie of the summer, but if you go in, knowing what you were going in for, it's not a bad hour-and-a-half, or so.