THE PACKAGE

The Package is a 2013 action film starring pro-wrestler Steve Austin--who's, of course, known in the wrestling world as "Stone Cold" Steve Austin--and Dolph Lundgren (of Rocky fame). This is their first cinematic outing since the Sylvester Stallone vehicle The Expendables (although they weren't in any scenes together in that film). In this film, Steve Austin plays a mob enforcer whose mob boss offers him a job in order to clear his incarcerated brother's huge debt to him. The "job" is to deliver a "package" to a man who's known as The German--played by Dolph as his usual sinister self--without telling him what the package specifically is. Steve's character agrees to the job, thinking it to be a simple one. However, he soon finds that the job is anything BUT simple as he's attacked by a group of mercenaries who wants to take the package from him. Austin's character, of course, fights his way through the mercenaries and other hired gunmen until he is finally apprehended by The German's henchmen. It turns out the package was a ruse to get Steve's character in the clutches of The German because, for one, both characters have an apparently unpleasant history together after having a major fallout when they both served in the military (although we don't find out precisely what that "history" was), and two, The German is apparently dying from a rare blood disorder and he desperately needs a blood transfusion from Steve's character who turns out to be the only blood match to his as they both happen to share the same ultra-rare blood type. I, of course, won't say how the film exactly ends and/or which character wins (although you can probably pretty much tell that for yourself). Even though the film was nowhere near as popular or as well-known as The Expendables (it was a direct-to-video release), it's still a pretty decent action flick with plenty of fight and/or gunplay scenes to satisfy even the most ardent action flick fan. Steve Austin actually makes a pretty passable action star, although he arguably isn't as good as, say, his fellow pro-wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson who's become a pretty popular action film star himself since "retiring" from pro-wrestling, but he's still got some at least halfway decent acting chops, at least as far as B-movie-esque action films like The Package goes (at least in MY oh-so-humble view!).