Here's to Action Heroes!

The recent action extravaganza The Expendables is pretty much what you'd expect from an action movie, if it was the action movie to end all action movies! Kind of light on story, but with some subtle and not so subtle layers of subtext thrown in, just to make you smile a little and feel like a ponce about getting older. Then there's the action. Holy damn! It's been a while since I got wound up watching the action scenes of a movie, but this one hits you like that. While all the gunshots, kicks, and punches are slamming you from all sides, you get this brief moment of thinking..."So that's what it would look like if Rocky IV's Ivan Drago took on any of the number of bad asses Jet Li has played in movies for the the last several years. Good to know."