Seen this one on opening night. Was looking forward to it. The last of the three action ensemble movies of the summer. With the other two being The Losers and The A - Team. Coming third, appropriately marks this movie as third place.
Yes, they had a truck load of 80s and 90s action stars. But, a good chunk of them didn't do much. or have much to do. 'Stone Cold' Steven Austin hardly had 5 lines in the whole movie. Just kinda wandered around behind Eric Roberts just to get set on fire at the end of the movie. They didn't even have the decency to shoot him.
Jet didn't get to display hardly any of his skill, Mickey Rourke didn't leave the garage (Although I did like his role as the patriarch so to speak imparting his wisdom) Dolph was missing for most of the movie..
The best scene of the movie was the meeting with Sly, Bruce and Arnold. And that was mostly for the overtones towards Arnold and his being 'pissed' because he wants to be president.
Sly wasn't bad in this movie, but for me the real star was Jason Statham. He seemed to come off really well. And I enjoyed the parts of the movie he was a part of.
The whole thing was pretty typical of an 80s action movie. The plot was what you would expect. But this movie didn't seem to have half the polish that I would expect from even and 80s action movie.
And I've seen most of them. Arnold, Sly, Chuck, Jean-Claude, Steven.. And most of them were better. Too bad they couldn't have taken some more time to polish up this movie.
The A - Team was the best of the three, and The Losers was also great. Wait for DVD
2.5 stars out of 5
Sly supposedly had a sequel prepped and is just waiting for the green light from the studio after seeing the weekend haul. I've already read that it's the #1 movie this weekend at around about $35 million. If it does get the go, hopefully they will take more time with it.
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