Perfectly inept

Rating: 2/10 (16 August 2010)

As if the mindless carousel of moronic violence in "Rambo IV" wasn't enough, poor Sly really made a point to show us that if he really wants to make a retarded movie, he's up to it anytime! Definitely, this is one of the most amateurish, boring, irritatingly dumb flicks we ever saw. The scenario is simply an exercise in olygophrenia. An obsolete type of story devoid of any originality and logic, awkwardly knitted together, as if there was no such thing as screen writing, with its rules to learn and apply.
Further, the directing is slow-paced, bumbling, unable at least to communicate in a coherent way the so-called "story". Instead of "characters", we have a bunch of lifeless mannequins, with no identity or personality, mixing together in a ridiculous saraband of gratuitous brutality. As if by accident, most of them are played by some performers whom we remember for really good roles, in some old movies. Among the top-most moronic blunders of this "movie", one could mention the "Stallonian sling" (a childish unworking version of the "Tchekhovian gun"): Mr. Church (Bruce Willis' character) warns Sly at the beginning: "Don't try to take the money and run, because me and my people will find you!" - and this is about all! Not even by accident such an occurrence is brought again to the audience mind - for certain, till the end, Sly forgot that he put it there! (The same as he forgot that it's the same thing that he did to the audience: he got their money and ran away, without delivering anything else but another unprofessional and bad taste piece of trash. And, of course, the title: these is no such thing as "expendable heroes" here (as, for instance, in "Rambo II" or "The Losers"). They are simply idiotically invincible and, as such, sent to slaughter a whole army as if it was made up of faulty puppets.