15 years too late!

Rating: 6/10 (8 September 2010)

A one half hour of, politically motivated, high testosterone, cheesy one-liner, clichéd, exaggerated, predictable, borderline racist, killing spree! There were three things missing from this film, Jean Claude Van Dame, Jackie Chan, and a proper story line. This film is 15 years too late.
The plot? There isn't one! It is a mash up of every action movie I enjoyed growing up, so it is more a nostalgia trip than a movie. With Willis and Schwarzenegger now too old to do anything they were given bit parts, but the story line would have been so much better had this happened when the three big stars of the 80's and 90's were still young - Think Predator, Die Hard and Rambo all rolled into one! I am however glad there was not a terrorist plot, as that would have been ridiculous! What was really wrong with film was the exaggeration. The hand gun ranges were worse than Modern Warfare 2 and the explosions were too big! The acting was awful, some characters last way too long and should have been killed straight away! There was an unnecessary drama that led to nothing most of the way through this film. The music did not sit well with the action; it gave no ambiance to any of the scenes and there were only three females in this entire film - make of that what you will! The saving grace for this film is Jet Li and the fight scenes. Although used for comic relief - "not so funny!" - his hand to hand combat with a drugged up Lundgren is a truly exceptional sequence. The choreography of the other fight scenes was good although a little embellished and too matrix for my liking.
Would I recommend this film to anyone? No! This is only for the people who know and like the actors in this film and would like to take a trip back in time! Imagine political conflicts could be solved with an unlimited ammo gun and times that by "four and a half"!