Don't get me wrong; I think Gerard Butler is a talented enough guy. I also think he's handsome, funny on talk shows, generally inoffensive, and I found him to be one of the least annoying things about The Ugly Truth. So it's not like I don't think he should be a movie star, because, sure, why shouldn't he? It's just that I'm worried his career path is increasingly molding him to be a lesser Jason Statham in the end, and whether he's been trying to rival the Statham or this whole thing is just a coincidence, I still don't like it.

Tags: Gerard Butler, Guy Richie, Jamie Fox, Jason Statham, Law Abiding Citizen, Neveldine/Taylor

It's almost impossible not be disappointed by the experience of actually watching The Expendables. It just promises too much! It's the Snakes on a Plane of South American dictators' castles being blown to hell by everybody's childhood favorites and six tons of C-4, you know? But I still enjoyed it, even if didn't melt my face off in exactly the ways I wanted it to.

Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Dolph Lundgren, Eric Roberts, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Randy Couture, review, Sylvester Stallone, The Expendables

Last night, millions of fans gathered around the TV to watch the Super Bowl, but not all of them were watching for the sport of it. Some were watching purely for the commercials, because so many new ones get rolled out during the broadcast. (And at $3 million a pop, they'd better be good.) The movie studios were not excluded from that, airing 11 different movie trailers during the game, including some brand-new ones (Angels and Demons, Fast & Furious) and a few slightly rehashed oldies (Star Trek, Up). While they only had 30 seconds to make their cases, there were five new trailers that did a bang-up job. Here are our faves from last night.

Tags: G.I. Joe, Jason Statham, Land of the Lost, Monsters vs. Aliens, Super Bowl, trailer, Transformers, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Year One

Is there something like the SPCA, only for action stars that maybe aren't quite as youthful as they once were? I can't help but think someone, somewhere needed to step in where The Spy Next Door is concerned and get Jackie Chan out of there. As some former knock-'em-out stars start heading toward their fifties and beyond, they try to transition into more mainstream roles. This isn't always easy, and some missteps will be made. In Chan's case, the missteps are becoming full-fledged leaps, as news come down the wire that Billy Ray Cyrus and George Lopez have just been cast to co-star with him in the comedy about mistaken identities. The two latest additions play CIA agents. The lineup, the premise... the whole thing has a "direct-to-DVD" sort of feel to it.

Tags: Billy Ray Cyrus, Dolph Lundgren, George Lopez, Ivan Drago, Jackie Chan, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Rocky IV, Sylvester Stallone, The Expendables, The Spy Next Door

Jason Statham certainly has been staying busy lately. He just wrapped up filming on Paul W.S. Anderson's Death Race and a third Transporter movie, he's currently working on a Crank sequel (which, regrettably, is not called Crankier), and The Brazilian Job is finally set to begin production. The latter is not the story of an extreme crotch wax gone horribly wrong, but a long talked-about sequel to 2003's The Italian Job. Lucky they're finally getting on with that; if they'd waited a few more years his character "Handsome Rob" might have had to change his nickname to "Aging Rob." All in all, it's not a bad time to be Jason Statham.

Tags: Crank 2, Death Race, Jason Statham, Transporter 3

It's hard to believe that a few years ago, Sylvester Stallone was pretty much off the radar, playing a villain in a Spy Kids movie with his glory days largely behind him. Now, after making another Rocky movie and another Rambo movie, all of a sudden everyone wants to work with him. (Let this be a lesson to all those actors out there who don't want to be in franchises.) As previously reported, Sly has written a new action movie for himself to direct and star in, and the cast he's assembled so far -- combined with the actors he's still going after -- is mind-bogglingly awesome.

Tags: Ben Kingsley, Dolph Lundgren, Forest Whitaker, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Mickey Rourke, Rambo, Rocky, Sandra Bullock, Sylvester Stallone, The Expendables

If the filmmakers behind the British thriller Donkey Punch were trying to get the world's attention when they came up with the title (and premise) of the film, they've succeeded. By taking a potentially lethal sexual maneuver and having it turn into a Dead Calm-like standoff between two women and four men on a yacht, they've earned themselves a U.S. release date (January 23rd), a tidy profit and a place in the sexual history books. And while some movies have unknowingly used sexual euphemisms as titles in the past (see: Shocker, The Glass-Bottom Boat), we think there's enough descriptive names out there to knowingly create a filth-based franchise. Here are some sexually-inspired thriller scenarios we're looking to, er, flesh out.

Tags: Cleveland Steamer, Dirty Sanchez, Donkey Punch, Dutch Oven, Guy de Maupassant, Jason Statham, Pearl Necklace, Rim Job

We're huge fans of Jason Statham around here, so I'm not asking this question lightly. It's just that, as Jason Statham makes more movies and becomes more and more deservedly well-known, after a while he's not exclusively ours anymore. Which is awesome, because The Statham should be the biggest action star on the planet, and I can't wait for that. But everyone seems to be in on the Jason Statham joke now (including him by the way, because he's amazing), so, like I did when Old School propelled Will Ferrell from the Palomino-loving lunatic doctor only a few people I knew quoted outside of his W. sketches to the giant comedy star everyone on the planet loved, I think it's time to let The Statham go off to college to discover himself while I take a new under-appreciated star under my bloggy wing. I've been thinking hard on this, and I've decided my new favorite might just be this John Cena character. Let's discuss this important matter after the jump.

Tags: 12 Rounds, Crank, Death Race, Jason Statham, John Cena, The Marine, Transporter