Spanning Two Decades of Testosterone

Rating: 9/10 (10 September 2010)

Stallone is a genius. As many action movies that I have seen, hell, for all that we have seen, we have wanted to see them all share the screen and get pumped for the smack down that would ensue.
That time has arrived.
We have them all. Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Mickey Rourke, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Steve Austin, Terry Crews.
All from the early 80's to now, age does not mean anything. Sure, character development is difficult in a movie with this big cast, but I believe the development was well done. Most was given to Statham, Rourke, and Lundgren, yes you head me Van Damme, Lundgren. Lundgren's character made perfect sense. Dolph showed he still has some excellent acting and action chops as he played his character with conviction. There is even a remarkable scene with Rourke talking about a dark time. This was one really excellent scene.
Of course there is the action, what this was made for. Everyone here gets in on it. We get the fights to the guns to the explosives and to the countless number of dead bad guys. I laughed and roared at the extreme scenes of violence and you can't go wrong with the last added ingredient of awesomeness, Eric Roberts.
And the best thing about this? No politics. NONE. YEAH!!!! This is action and some fine acting as well. Stallone is not sending a political message, he is sending message of this: age is just a number.
This is what I expected and delivered ten fold. Thank you Stallone!