Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) and Lee Christmas (Jason Statham) are part of an elite mercenary group. They get a job from Mr. Church (Bruce Willis) to save an island in South America from the rule of General Garza (David Zayas), who was paid off by an American named James Munroe (Eric Roberts). Ross and Christmas head down to the island in disguised to investigate the situation before sending the whole team down. Their guide is Sandra (Giselle Itie), the daughter of General Garza. She explains that the island use to be a beautiful and peaceful place to live, but ever since Munroe bought out the General things have been awful. While she is showing them around they are ambushed and Ross and Christmas have to leave. They try to get Sandra to come with but she refuses to leave her home. Ross and Christmas escape, but Sandra gets kidnapped and tortured to give information about them. Feeling guilty about leaving Sandra behind, Ross decides to go and save her. He is joined by the team and its up to the six (?) of them to restore the order and save the girl.
I think the best part of this movie was seeing all the cameos and having all the action stars come together for one action flick. However, the problem with big ensemble films is that you often loose the characters story and arc. Even though they try to focus on just two (maybe three if you count Jet Li), but their story still gets lost. The fight scenes are fun at first but then get a little old (and I may just be being hard since I still have The Raid: Redemption on my brain). Plus it was a lot of quick cutting and extreme close ups, which made it a little confusing to tell what was going on and who was even fighting. And, was it just me or did it seem like Stallone was always running with a limp? This wasn't my favorite movie, but I think I would see the second one still anyways.
Rating: **
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