Oh, what might have been...

Rating: 2/10 (25 September 2008)

Man, I loved the action films of the eighties... and not just the classics. There were the straight-to-video (remember video?) titles too... and, with a poster sporting a tough looking, buffed up Ben Stiller; an affro'd Robert Downey Jr (brilliant in Iron Man, and hinting at the classic cool blaxploitation action hero of the 1970s, such as Fred Williamson and Richard Roundtree?); plus the always hilarious Jack Black, in an action comedy/spoof? I couldn't wait...
Sadly, it just didn't deliver. Tom Cruise's cameo wasn't funny at all (just creepy); Stiller's 'going deep' (a la Col. Kurtz) wasn't funny; the talented Steve Coogan was wasted and Jack Black didn't really do anything... the references to insecure actors and ruthless producers might have provided laughs for Stiller's colleagues, but it did little for me...
Nick Nolte was great as the deceptive vet, and the explosives/sfx guy was hard case, but I ultimately found this pretty disappointing...
Oh, what might have been...