The trailer should have been cut to 1:15 instead of 3:04.
They basically just showed us the entire movie.
Thats probably why it comes off as unfocused, they put way too much into the trailer, hard to keep it short and sweet when it runs almost a minute longer than most academy worthy film's trailers =P

Terrible, terrible trailer, but the movie at least looks funny in a so bad its good way. I'd watch it as a Black Dynamite for war movies thing.

Sly Stallone looks like the Madame Tussauds version of himself. Sly...lay off the nip and tucks bro. After seeing this trailer I can now say Stalloe would have been better off making a sequel to Tango and Cash.

I can't watch the trailer.....it now says "This video is not available in your country due to copyright restrictions"

"your hairdresser!" man, i can hardly wait to never ever watch this film.

Oh this looks to be crap-tastic!

I kept waiting to see the names Golan/Globus pop up there. This looks like pure 80's schlock - the type that would have been on the video shelves from Trimark or Cannon back in the day w/ an awesome oil-painted box cover.

In the spirit of being an over-the-top 80's action movie it's nice that they gave us a clunky, 80's style trailer.

"none of Jason Statham's movies are hits, Jet Li is hardly bankable"

Get your facts together...

The Italian Job grossed 106 million dollars in the USA alone, while the Transporter sequels and the first Crank did also very well. Also, almost all of his movies are doing big business on the home video market.

And about Jet Li: He has an box office average of almost 50 million dollar over 12 American movies, while he is huge in the rest of the world. With Jet Li the movie will do great internationally.

The Italian Job is not a Jason Statham movie any more than The Dark Knight is a Maggie Gyllenhaal movie. Also, since when does a $60 million film (before marketing) count as a hit if it doesn't even double its budget? But even counting that one, his average return on movies in over 1,500 theaters is $34 million. His last quantifiable theatrical hit was The Bank Job, but only because it was cheaper to make than the others. He's never been the above-the-title star of a film that earned $50 million in the United States. Not once.

Only three Jet Li movies have grossed over $50 million, although it was clever of you to put The Mummy and Lethal Weapon into his list (weren't they already dependable franchises without him?) to up the average. Outside of those two films, neither of which are really "his" movies to the degree that, say, Hero is, he's very average.

As for the international audience, that's simply not true. If it were, Romeo Must Die, Kiss of the Dragon, The One, Cradle 2 the Grave, or WAR would have done better overseas than in America. In fact, of the movies I'd call Jet Li films, a list that doesn't include The Mummy or Lethal Weapon, only Hero, Unleashed, and Fearless have better international numbers, and only Hero has anything close to blockbuster numbers in foreign markets. It's the exception, not the rule.

Awww hell Colin, did you have to go and mention WAR? I still have a bad taste in my memory over that one that I'm trying not to remember.

If "Expendables" is a hit, expect to see remakes of "The Dirty Dozen" and "Magnificent Seven" getting greenlit. (Gabriel Byrne wants to do an all-Irish remake of "Magnificent Seven" with Pierce Bronsnan, Colin Farrell, Liam Neeson and hiimself to name a few)