Used Action guys get used up

Rating: 2/10 (13 December 2010)

It's not just that the story and acting are ludicrous, even the action is. Why does Jason Statham have to get into the front of that plane? Maybe it's a P-38 -- I don't know -- but it's ridiculous in this day and age. If Sylvester had done something with guys who rebuff hi-tech and go with their mitts it'd be acceptable. Now it's just silly.
And what about that fight with the basketballers, one of whom was bonking Charisma...? Is that the way you wanted the fight meted out to these thugs? They wait for one another to get beaten before another dives in at Statham. And the action in La Vinena (hahaha) or made-up -place-goes here, didn't start until we were 33 minutes in. It's incoherent until then.
This thing was a scrambled mess, unsavable in the cutting room. Too bad... I like all these guys when they're on their own and the material is good.