An average movie

It was almost 10 years ago that Sylvester Stallone made his impressive come-back with 'Rocky', and after milking the whole thing with 'Rambo' and 'The Expendables' franchise, he finally decided to come up with something new. All right, to be honest, it was still nothing really original and it was still a throwback to the good old action flicks from the 80's starring Stallone. At least, it wasn't a sequel, a reboot or a remake and it seemed that it had some potential. Eventually, it was pretty much a flop when it was released but I still wanted to check it out. Eventually, there were many things I did enjoy : the R rated tone, the decent performance by Stallone and the action scenes were really solid. And yet, it was still missing something to become really entertaining and, to be honest, I thought the whole thing was rather lazy. I mean, 10 minutes before the end, you have Jason Momoa (a really decent bad guy by the way) going into a killing rampage for no good reason except speeding up the whole thing. On top of that, they could have picked up a better partner, someone who could have pushed Stallone a little bit more, instead they picked up the Asian guy from 'The Fast and Furious' franchise and he definitely didn't have the necessary charisma. To conclude, it could have been pretty cool and it almost was but it was still too pedestrian for my taste.

5/10