Amazing

Rating: 8/10 (25 August 2010)

Hi.
While Sylvester Stallone had his career downturn in the late 90's and 2000's he must have been watching a lot of wrestling because his film borrows a lot of their strategy. Stallone has aimed his film for every Southern American male under thirty to go and see it.
The good guys have feelings and regrets over their kills while the bad guys are unapologetic and channel eighties wall street corporate greed.
I am still coming down from the intense gun fire and explosions.
My ears are still ringing from the sound of the automatic shotgun causing mayhem.
The one on one fights are the best seen in film since Rocky IV. No boring special effects heavy fights in this film.
Dolph Lundgren ( The Nordic Frankenstein) picks up Jet Li over his head and smashes him into an overhead walkway.
Stone Cold Steve Austin puts Stallone in a headlock and gives him an elbow to the back that would bring down a biblical city wall.
I have to give credibility to Jet Li. It was obviously him who had to be the team player in the this film because he takes a physical pounding.
I saw two people walk out of this film. I was shocked. The ninety percent of people who stayed cheered like a Parramatta fan winning a football game.
I haven't heard cheering in a cinema for years.
The soundtrack goes straight to the heart of the NASCAR racing crowd. Georgia Satellites, Creedence Clearwater Revival and the Guitar Hero classic Mississippi Queen by Mountain.
Stallone is now in his early sixties, when he runs he's so creaky and stiff that he's a shoe in for the role of the tin man in any future Wizard of Oz adaption.
Stallone has mellowed. While in the eighties he took out a whole battalion personally, now it's Stallone and five others that take out a battalion.