This film follows a band of mercenaries who are initially hired to take down a corrupt general on the island of Vilena. The leader of the mercenaries along with his second in command go to Vilena on a recon run. They meet their contact on the island, a woman named Sandra. While Sandra shows them around the island they go to a vantage point to view the general's palace. The mercenary second in command gets out before they reach the palace.
While viewing the palace a truck filled with soldiers comes upon the group. The mercenary commander and Sandra are detained by the soldiers. While Sandra argues with the soldiers the mercenary second in command sneaks up on the soldiers detaining the pair. A fast paced battle ensues with knives and guns being used to kill all the soldiers.
Sandra and the mercenaries escape from the area around the general's palace and head back towards town. The mercenaries plane is in town at the docks, they plan to escape with this plane and try to convince Sandra to come with them. Just before she is to get on the plane Sandra stops and refuses to go. By now the guards at the entry point for the country by the dock are alerted to their presence. Just before the border guards open fire upon the mercenary airplane the mercenary commander kills them.
In a daring escape the mercenaries get their float plane off the water and are set to fly away. After disappearing behind a coastal hill the commander decides to turn around. In a final attack on the Vilena military they strafe the dock with hidden machine guns then dump fuel on the doc which is ignited by a flare gun.
The mercenaries after analyzing the data they've gathered decide to turn down the job and return the money. The reason they do so is that they've discovered the job is a front, killing the general is not the real mission. Instead the real mission is to kill a CIA operative who's gone rogue and the CIA cannot appear to be involved in the killing of. In the end the mercenaries end up performing the job and defeating the Vilena military.
This film is an ensemble piece meant to bring together great action movie stars of the old guard and those of the new guard. I went into this film originally calling it "The epic movie of epicness!". I was mildly disappointed with the film because it was not quite as epic as I had expected. It is still an epic and awesome film, starring the likes of Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Jet Li, and many others. I highly recommend this film for those who enjoy a good action film, there are explosions and blood enough to suit any action film fan.
