Tom Cruise becomes the Sylvester Stallone of his generation.

Exhibits A, B, C: OBLIVION, ALL YOU NEED IS KILL (re titled EDGE OF TOMORROW and LIVE DIE REPEAT on video), JACK REACHER etc. etc.

Tom Cruise is in his fifties now--but given Hollywood logic for veteran male stars, he gets ten years taken off his age (remembering how the 70-year-old Paul Newman was only 60 in NOBODY'S FOOL, but Newman, even in the 90s, was ageless).

Here's moviesquad commenting on the HOLLYWOOD ELSEWHERE site (highlighting by me):
I think Tom is in the midst of a mid-life crisis where he's trying to pump out as many of the sort of movies that prove he's still young as he can... and I'm glad for it.
He can do the more serious pics you want him to do when he is no longer believable in these sorts of roles. We need this Tom Cruise at this moment in time.

Meanwhile, Sylvester Stallone continues his post-EXPENDABLES career upturn in BULLET TO THE HEAD (directed by Walter Hill, who had a run of good actioners between 1978 and 1987), in which (from evidence in the trailer) he tries to erase two decades from his actual age.

Varying opinions of trailer for THE EXPENDABLES 2.

Film critic Scott Mendelson weighing in on the just-released trailer for Sylvester Stallone's THE EXPENDABLES 2:
Mendelson's Memos: The Expendables 2 trailer looks fun, but will a sl...: This looks like more of the same, which is just fine by me.  The first film was just a little better than I expected, offering a fantasy ...

As for me, the trailer indicates that Stallone, in handing off direction to Simon West, has infused the film with the kind of tongue-in-cheek gonzo which West brought to Jerry Bruckheimer's CON AIR fifteen years ago.

Unlike Mendelson, I don't have problems with Arnold winking at the camera.