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It might surprise you to know that both Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwartzenegger will be back to take on the action movie world in 2010’s The Expendables. It might be especially surprising since, at last report, California was one bus token away from complete fiscal Armageddon, so what is the governor doing running around in movies?

But anyway! A trailer was successfully bootlegged out of Venice for The Expendables, and we’ve got it directly below thanks to the magic of YouTube.

If you think it looks a lot like every other movie Stallone was ever in, then you’re probably not too far off.  Except, of course, this one has Jason Statham.  And Jason Statham is pretty much always awesome.

The teaser trailer, meanwhile, is of relatively poor quality but such is the way that all bootlegs pretty much go.  You will, however, get to see how very cookie-cutter this action flick will be in advance, so you’ll know in advance if you want to see it.  Frankly, I’m probably in because I enjoy this kind of mindless eye-candy.  And somewhere, an entire studio hopes against hope that you will be too.

Today we’re talking Chaos, released to Blu-ray thanks to the folks at Lions Gate, and are you ever going to be surprised by this out of nowhere cop thriller.

Chaos brings us a gang leader, played by Wesley Snipes, who takes a whole host of hostages in a bank and is faced with the recently suspended Detective Connors.  Connors is joined by Ryan Phillippe to take down the gang before they can pull off an even bigger heist…but is everyone playing on the same side?  It’s just going to be pure chaos by the end of things.

Chaos is just loads of fun.  Wesley Snipes still makes a terrific villain, and Jason Statham is almost as good a good guy as he is a bad guy.  It’s a little bit confusing in some parts, and will take a lot of concentration in some places to follow completely.  There’s plenty of action and people chasing other people around with guns, and plenty of good old fashioned plotting.  Not to mention a nice little twist ending.

Thus, the Screenhead Ten Scale rewards Chaos by handing out a seven out of ten, a solid score for a solid movie.

Jason Statham is in talks to play Sergeant Ken Brant.  Brant lives badly, boozing all night, but he is one tough cop assigned the job of capturing a serial killer who targets police officers with a hammer. The story is based on the Ken Bruen’s bestseller “Blitz,” which is also the name of the movie from a series of Inspector Brant books. 

Paddy Considine (The Bourne Ultimatum) will play Statham’s openly gay partner and Elliot Lester will direct from the script adaptation by Nathan Parker.  Filming begins August 10, 2009 in London and will be entirely produced in Britain.

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Having played everything from homicidal maniacs to race car drivers, Jason Statham is next set to play a sociopathic, destructive cop named Brant in the upcoming film adaptation of Ken Bruen’s novel Blitz.

The film is set in South East London, following three different police officers who have to deal with their own issues alongside hunting down a serial killer hunting down cops all over the city in a quest for tabloid immortality.

Statham will be playing alongside Paddy Considine, who will be playing Sergeant Porter Nash, an openly gay cop who works with the homophobic Brant.

Nathan Parker has adapted the script; Elliott Lester is occupying the director’s seat.

Having been expendable, Jason Statham is now set to star in the upcoming $40 million action thriller The Killer Elite.

The film is based on Ranulph Fiennes’ best-selling novel “The Featherman” which tells the story of a group of former British Special Forces members who are being hunted by assassins.

Statham is set to play a former Navy Seal who is forced out of retirement to save his closest friend. Sounds generic, I know, but that’s the story!

Helmed by Gary McKendry, the film is set to start shooting this fall in London, Paris and Australia.

Production Weekly reports that Simon West (Tomb Raider) is in talks to direct a reboot of the 1972 Charles Bronson action flick The Mechanic.

Jason Statham is stated to be taking on the lead role in the Shane Salerno-scripted film. It will reimagine the property as a spy thriller in a post-9/11 world.

The ’72 film saw Bronson playing an aging hitman who befriends a young man who wants to be a professional killer.

Another very cool feature has been created for Crank High Voltage starring Jason Statham.  Check out Break.com to see a rather unique trailer for this upcoming theatrical release on April 17^th.

This site really rumbles and rocks as Statham shoots, falls, kicks and rassles with the thugs. When I mean rumbles and rocks, I mean literally.  Have fun here!  You will be glad you did. The trailer rumbles, spins and rotates 360 degrees, honestly it does.

In this high-octane sequel, hit man Chev Chelios (Jason Statham) launches himself on an electrifying chase through Los Angeles in pursuit of the Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart. Crank: High Voltage written and directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, the duo behind the 2006 hit film Crank.   

Jason Statham (The Transporter, The Bank Job) returns to star as hit man Chev Chelios.  Reprising their roles from the 2006 original are Amy Smart as Eve, Dwight Yoakam as Doc Miles, and Efren Ramirez as Venus.  Rounding out the cast are Clifton Collins Jr. and Bai Ling.

The movie opens April 17!

You’ve really got to hand it to Jason Statham.  The guy is practically a video game character in his own right–look at some of his recent roles.  He was a hitman in Crank who had to jump from adrenaline rush to adrenaline rush in order to keep his heart from collapsing under the influence of some weird Chinese nerve drug.  Then he shows up in In The Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, which actually WAS a video game before Uwe Boll got his hands on it and turned it into, well, another Uwe Boll film.

And then he shows up in Death Race, the remake of the original–which might well have been the first ever video game movie (Death Race actually was a video game at one point–I remember playing it in an old arcade).

This time, Statham plays a down-on-his-luck steelworker whose mill just shut down (shades of the current economy, huh?).  He goes home for the night, expecting a simple, safe night in with his wife and newborn daughter when it all goes horribly wrong.  Statham ends up in prison, framed for his wife’s murder, and offered a terrible choice.  Either he can spend his life in prison–which may not be that long–or he can join the Death Race circuit, a sort of gladiatorial stock car race in which prisoner drivers race heavily armed cars to the death.  Statham signs onto the Death Race circuit, racing as legendary driver Frankenstein, a man so disfigured by his numerous crashes that he needs to wear a mask.  Throughout the movie, we follow the Death Race circuit through a three-stage race (shown on pay-per-view for the ridiculous price of ninety-nine dollars a circuit or two hundred fifty dollars for all three) as Statham discovers that the race has plenty of secrets, and almost none of them good.

With a plot like that, we all have a pretty good idea that this isn’t going to be an Oscar contender.  Nor will it make a lot of sense.  Rest assured there will be several good plot holes going on here, and more than a few headscratching moments as racers you’ve never seen before suddenly die on the race track.  And though Oscar wouldn’t spit on this movie if it were soaked in its own high-test racing fuel and set on fire, you can take it to the bank that this will be at the very least a fun movie.  Plenty of blood and fire and explosions and attractive women in a supporting capacity say that this is eventually going to show up on Spike in an extremely edited fashion.  And the commercials leading up to its release will be absolutely nuts.

And that’s most of what you can say about Death Race–it’s big, it’s loud, it’s violent, and it’s crazy.  Jason Statham turns in a solid performance once again, and his supporting cast is no slouch in its own right.  In fact, there’s very little wrong with the movie.  It was made for a couple hours of shutting your brain off and watching stuff go vroom and stuff go boom.

You will probably enjoy it, as long as you don’t look too far under the hood.

Behold the final poster from Crank: High Voltage, the high-octane sequel to the 2006 hit film Crank. Jason Statham (The Transporter) returns to star as Chev Chelios, a hitman who launches himself on an electrifying chase through Los Angeles in pursuit of the Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart.