Amb Films|Travel & Photography Blog

Posts Tagged ‘watch the expandable movie’

This film is an unprecedented act of muscle-bound unity.

A vast posse of waning action stars have thrown themselves together in one film in the hopes of creating a macho supernova dazzling enough to impress their collective army of fanboys and save them all from a tragic fate of straight to DVD sequels.

Written and directed by Sly Stallone, it’s a brave effort to recapture action hero glory which doesn’t quite succeed.

The film’s plot is standard issue B-movie fare. An elite team of mercenaries gets hired by the CIA to take out a local tyrant and his drug dealing puppetmaster on an obscure South American island.

It’s an obvious suicide mission which predictably turns personal and explosive. By the looks of things the script was basically the phrase “It blows up!” written about a hundred times in very angry crayon.

To give the film its fair dues, they really do blow up an awful lot of stuff.

Helicopters, trucks, buildings, people… it turns out absolutely anything can explode. The films’ hulking cast is also very gifted at punching, stabbing or shooting other people in the face.

Clearly, they’ve had practice. There’s an abundance of bone crunching brawls and excessive CGI blood splatter to keep genre fans happy. It’s grisly and ruthless, but lacks much of the one liner charm of the best old school action flicks. Read the rest of this entry »