'Just a bunch of old guys trying to look hard', said without irony, sums this up.
You can expect the usual snarling, macho posing that is the full extent of some of the casts' acting abilities. Add to this some snarling, macho posing by a female member of the team and the end result is every bit as bad as you might expect. The female member gets captured, of course, and requires rescuing. Typical girl huh ?
Things crawl along at an excruciatingly slow pace for an action movie, as we are introduced to all the new members of the team and their own peculiar skills.
Stallones ability to do emotion seems to be matched now by his ability to move his face. At least he's in no danger of being out- acted by the likes of Statham (who has somehow blagged a career in films - despite an inability to vary the gruff whispering hard man character that he always plays).
There's a lot of chat along the way with very little in the way of wit with the possible exception of Schwarzenegger who seems to have grasped the ludicrous concept of the whole enterprise. (I may be biased, as I loved his performance in the meerkat ads).
Aside from that, it retains very little interest. There's something more than a little grotesque in these very-OAPs pretending to roll about and threaten and intimidate each other. But of course - there is nothing quite grotesque as the bad guy Mel Gibson. As we all know, he really is grotesque .... for real.
Give it a miss.
You can expect the usual snarling, macho posing that is the full extent of some of the casts' acting abilities. Add to this some snarling, macho posing by a female member of the team and the end result is every bit as bad as you might expect. The female member gets captured, of course, and requires rescuing. Typical girl huh ?
Things crawl along at an excruciatingly slow pace for an action movie, as we are introduced to all the new members of the team and their own peculiar skills.
Stallones ability to do emotion seems to be matched now by his ability to move his face. At least he's in no danger of being out- acted by the likes of Statham (who has somehow blagged a career in films - despite an inability to vary the gruff whispering hard man character that he always plays).
There's a lot of chat along the way with very little in the way of wit with the possible exception of Schwarzenegger who seems to have grasped the ludicrous concept of the whole enterprise. (I may be biased, as I loved his performance in the meerkat ads).
Aside from that, it retains very little interest. There's something more than a little grotesque in these very-OAPs pretending to roll about and threaten and intimidate each other. But of course - there is nothing quite grotesque as the bad guy Mel Gibson. As we all know, he really is grotesque .... for real.
Give it a miss.