Lots and lots of action, nothing cerebral. It's absurd.

Rating: 6/10 (27 November 2010)

I rented the movie as I had heard it was action packed. This is absolutely true and nobody could dispute this fact. As far as the story's plot, I believe that Stallone tailored it in his creative mind to support the action set-up and its sequences. I found 2 conflicting ideas in the film: Number 1 is why did Dolph Lundgren's character turned traitor, and Number 2 is why didn't the rescued woman leave with Stallone after he came back for her? I guess he did not want to leave the impression of a Love story of any kind with such a crew of bad ass mercenaries who'd rival the French Foreign Legion who are comparable to U.S. Marine's Elite fighters. In closing, I think it is absurd and laugh out loud ridiculous to believe that 8 men survived an onslaught of hundreds of enemy soldiers, dodged thousands of rounds of ammunition, blew up an entire fortress, and yet all 8 walked away unscathed without a single wound! I think this is absurd! Hey, welcome to Hollywood where everything is possible on the silver screen. In closing, this movie had used the most pyrotechnics in movie history.