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Barney Ross leads a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, a martial arts expert Yin Yang, heavy weapons specialist Hale Caesar, demolitionist Toll Road, and a loose-cannon sniper Gunner Jensen. When the group is commissioned by the mysterious Mr. Church to assassinate the dictator of a small South American island, Barney and Lee visit the remote locale to scout out their opposition and discover the true nature of the conflict engulfing the city.
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Unpretentious, effortless, cool and classical in form.
- unpretentiousprestige
- effortlessdemanding
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
Who loves it, who doesn't
17 profiled raters. Loved most by The Genre Devotees; disliked most by The Cartographers.
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Cast
- Sylvester StalloneBarney Ross
- Jason StathamLee Christmas
- Jet LiYin Yang
- Dolph LundgrenGunner Jensen
- Eric RobertsJames Monroe
- Randy CoutureToll Road
- Steve AustinPaine
- David ZayasGeneral Garza
- Giselle ItiéSandra
- Charisma CarpenterLacy
Crew
- Sylvester StalloneDirector
- David CallahamScreenplay
- Sylvester StalloneScreenplay
- Jeffrey L. KimballDirector of Photography
- Brian TylerOriginal Music Composer
- Ken BlackwellEditor
- Paul HarbEditor
- Kevin King TempletonProducer
- Avi LernerProducer
- John ThompsonProducer
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