See Stallone. See Stallone run. See Stallone kill everything and save everyone.

Rating: 1/10 (4 June 2011)

This had the potential to be a great movie. Every big name action star was in it - Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jet Li, Sylvester Stallone... the list goes on. Packed full of explosive action scenes, how could this be anything but a winning formula? The answer: an egocentric director.
This movie is written by, directed by, and starred in by Stallone. He is the main character and the only one to get more than a modicum of screen time. He's the hero who kills everything, saves everyone, and gets the girl. His co-stars are delegated the back seat in all this and are atrociously underused.
The story doesn't even make sense. It's just action for the sake of action, with no real reason or plot development behind it. In one memorable scene an entire mansion/castle gets (intentionally) blown up. Why? The bad guys are outside - it doesn't achieve anything. Prior to this the main characters are laying the explosives which just get slapped around anywhere, and again you have to ask yourself, what for? That isn't a structural support, that doesn't destroy anything important. Why not put the explosives on, say, the munitions bunker? Or under the troop carriers? But no, then Stallone wouldn't have an excuse to blow up a building.
In short, the movie is just an excuse for Stallone to make himself look great on screen (it didn't work). The pyrotechnics is used in lieu of plot, and the co-stars barely get an opportunity to show off their talents. It's all about Stallone, Stallone, Stallone, and it's just an utter failure.