Reminded me of the A-Team

Rating: 6/10 (27 January 2012)

It seems like it is the year for mercenary movies, particularly mercenaries who are on the verge of retirement. Okay, granted, the only retirement age mercenaries in this movie are Sly and Lundgran (unlike RED, where all of the actors are retirement aged) , but they are still mercenaries (in the way that the A-Team are mercenaries). This movie is also a movie with an 'all-star cast', which is not surprising since Sly did direct it (and I never knew that Sly was a director, but then again, if you are as rich as sly, then I guess you can do, within reason' what you pretty much want).
The movie is about a group of mercenaries who take jobs that the government does not want to be connected with and are too dangerous for anybody else. As 'Church' (Bruce Willis) says at the beginning, there are three missions, two cake-walks, and one suicide, so Sly takes the suicide mission. The problem is that when he goes and checks out the island he falls in love with one of the rebels and lets his emotions over ride his common sense. Okay, he does say that he is going to do the job himself, but his colleagues decided that they will help him out anyway.
If you like action movies with lots of gun fights and explosions then this is an enjoyable movies, but if you like deep thinking movies with twists and turns, then don't bother. As mentioned, this movie reminded me of the A-team, and ironically, the same weekend I watched this movie I also watched an episode of the A-Team whose plot was pretty much the same as this one. Not a stand out movie, but an enjoyable one nonetheless.