Not as awesome as it should have been

Rating: 5/10 (26 December 2010)

I saw this movie expecting a mindless action movie with lots of shooting, explosions and the like; along the lines of 'True Lies', you know the kind. It only delivered a marginal amount of that.
There were indeed a some really nice fightmoves, a bunch of explosions and the like. However, a large part of the movie was spent on explaining the somewhat bad and overly complicated story (Something along the lines of 'those are bad guys, kill them' would have sufficed) and inferior dialogue. You don't go to a movie with Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham and Jet Li just to see them talk half the time.
About half of the not nearly enough explosions were clearly fake. They don't have to equal movies like Avatar on cgi level, these however were special effects like those seen in, say, GoldenEye from 15 years ago.
If you've seen all the good action movies already this one is worth the 2 hours. I would advise everyone else just to click on one of the main actors in this movie and watch another one they played in, 50/50 chance you've got one better than this.