He almost may qualify for Social Security. His face may look now like an overtanned Shar-Pei’s. But that doesn’t stop 64-year-old Sly Stallone.
He defiantly directs himself in a scene where he outruns a hurtling airplane, jumps for it and then hangs by his fingertips from its open doorway as it ascends. Like “The Expendables,” his 1980s acid flashback of an action-adventure, senior citizen Rambo earns an “A” for chutzpah and an “F” for credibility. Cheesy, inappropriate and irresistible — these descriptions could all apply to both the man and the movie.
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