It was good, my expectations were a bit high, and there was a lot of crappy aspects to the movie. For instance Dolph Lundgren was atrocious in this movie, like he had an accent sometimes but then he didn't at other times and his character just seemed like he was thrown into the movie without a single thought. The only really believable characters were Jet Li and Jason Statham. There was no Randy Couture vs. Nougeira fight, like wtf, I was waiting the whole movie for it. And a lot of the CGI in it just looked bad, blood-wise. And there was this stupid relationship with Statham that just went on through the whole movie and never amounted to anything, I seriously don't know why it was there.
However the movie did deliver on one-liners, the scene with all three legends together was pretty epic and cheesy and awesome, the action was good, and Mickey Rourke delivered a pretty solid speech in it, though it was maybe a bit too emotional for this movie, Stallone seemed like he wanted a fun action movie one minute and a serious film like Rambo the next, which ended up feeling odd.
just saw this and i enjoyed it.. plot? f*ck the plot, man.. movie goes BOOM!! i like when movie goes BOOM and guns go BANG!! this is a pure testosterone movie.. i left the theater with my testicles 12.7% bigger.. that's how much testosterone was in that movie.. li was awesome, man.. he had corey yuen choreograph his fights.. the group fight towards the end was f*cking brutal.. groans abound the theater with every hit and gunshot.. i liked how morose li was, rourke should've gotten waaay more screen time.. solid monologue from him though.. i think crews should've had more lines.. i think more screen time for everybody was workable, but the movie would be considerably longer.. i see a franchise coming..
Wasn't bad but i thought most of the action was sub-standard and in some instances poor. Although, there were enough great scenes which make it easier to forgive the bad. I couldn't tell you what the movie was about but there was certainly a lot of action. I just wish the marquee names in the movie had gotten more screen time and Jet li...,yeah, they wasted his talents. Most of the action scenes felt like the camera was shoved up the asses of the people on the screen. This is what ruined most of the action for me. Half the time i couldn't tell what was going on. It was like watching, Transformers all over again. I understand the whole, in your face, style but when you're dealing with someone like, Jet Li, you need to have wide angle shots and prolonged takes. What you don't do is record jet li kicking and punching a hundred times whilst having the camera shoved in his face and just edit it altogether into a coherent scene.
There was also a lot of shoddy edits. You know, you see someone firing their gun and the screen cuts to a stock enemy falling over. I can't say i was disappointed because my expectations were low once i saw the trailer and even though it's not a horrible movie it's not a movie you need to see, even if you're an 80's action fan. For me, it was as forgettable as Steven Seagulls last movie. The only thing separating this movie from a TnT original movie is the expensive lens filter and caliber of film used.
Originally posted by SnakeEyes
Been hearing from several sources that this movie was kind of lame. I'll wait for the DVD.
I honestly loved the movie. I can understand the complaints about the camera work, but they honestly did little to spoil it for me. My brother complained that it was hard to tell the guys apart at times, but i just went by the hats.
I thought the action was incredibly well choreographed. As good as anything i've seen in a while.
Seems like Van Damme now regrets not being in the movie: