After reviving both the "Rambo" and "Rocky" franchises in the past few years, you might have thought that Sylvester Stallone had gone as far as he could coasting on his 1980s glory days.
Guess again: This month sees Sly sharing screen time with grizzled '80s icons Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke and Dolph Lundgren in "The Expendables," an old-school, spine-snapping, gut-stabbing, skull-blasting action flick that wouldn't have seemed out of place had it opened somewhere between "Commando" (1985) and "Cobra" (1986).
Written by, directed by and starring Stallone (the Vincent Gallo of the oiled-torso set), "The Expendables" follows a small group of uber-macho mercenaries who can be relied on to solve any tricky situation — like, say, a recalcitrant Somali pirate — by blowing it in half with a grenade launcher. Call them the "A-Team" sans tongue in cheek, a Soldier of Fortune reader's wet dream.