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Average Rating: 5.2/10
Reviews Counted: 192
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It makes good on the old-school action it promises, but given all the talent on display, The Expendables should hit harder.
Average Rating: 5.1/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 21
It makes good on the old-school action it promises, but given all the talent on display, The Expendables should hit harder.
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An all-star cast of action-movie icons headline Sylvester Stallone's explosive action thriller about a group of hard-nosed mercenaries who are double-crossed during a treacherous mission. Approached by the shadowy Church (Bruce Willis) to overthrow tyrannical South American dictator General Gaza (David Zayas) and restore order to the troubled island country of Vilena, stoic soldier of fortune Barney Ross (Stallone) rounds up an unstoppable team that includes former SAS soldier and blade
Aug 13, 2010 Wide
Nov 23, 2010
$103.0M
Lionsgate Films
All Critics (193) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (81) | Rotten (114) | DVD (6)
The rest of the mayhem is simply ultraviolent, nonstop, and numbing. Better jokes might have helped.
What you will find is both familiar in its contours and unique in its casting.
It's not the age of the actors that makes The Expendables expendable. It's the stale storytelling.
The Expendables isn't as much fun as it should be.
I's a bit like a trip to the gym on a flat tire.
Sylvester Stallone's gun-emptying, blade-tossing, clandestine action flick "The Expendables" is great fun. Sure, this declaration comes with caveats, but do you really need to hear them?
the kind of all-out, over the top action movie they just don't make anymore, which is probably a good thing because the human brain can only take a movie that provides the equivalent to getting three consecutive adrenaline shots so many times.
I like the idea of this movie much more than how it actually turned out.
This has been clearly aimed at - pardon the pun - diehard action film fans. Anyone else, who might expect a vague sense of irony, will be sorely disappointed.
... It's a little like meeting up with old friends, only to come away deflated, realising you just don't have that much to talk about any more.
Stallone, with his highly unusual current face, is so busy making googly eyes at Statham and nursing a man-crush that he forgets that the goal of this movie is MORE KILLING.
If you are a connoisseur of the Steven Seagal flavor of direct-to-DVD action film, seeing all these guys up on screen actually is a lot of fun. It doesn't make it a good movie by any stretch of the imagination, but it's still a lot of fun.
The movie had been billed as a throwback to the action flicks of the 1980s, but that pitch turns out to be false advertising.
This movie isn't for everyone, Stallone knows his audience - it does not try to push the envelope, doesn't use cgi tricks - this movie is strictly for fans of old school action movies
Unnatural but kind of remarkable.
Provides a decent, if not totally fulfilling, fix of that something we miss.
Certainly not a great film, but an enjoyable slice of surprisingly low-key, classic '80s action filmmaking complete with an awesome cast.
... a perfectly enjoyable mercenaries-on-a-mission-of-redemption adventure with a mix of testosterone-fueled camaraderie and this-time-it's-personal seriousness.
Stallone knows his fans. The Expendables is a big, happy geek package readymade for chips and beer-and perhaps something harder, if you're not a fan.
Suitable for a night of cold beer, chili, and a hot woman at your side...
The film's climax delivers and delivers and just keeps topping itself, making it possibly the most satisfying experience since cheeseburgers after a very big night.
Final notes: this is a movie in which Dolph Lundgren is expected to convincingly portray a junkie and have an American accent. Also, Jet Li plays a character called Yin Yang. Do with this information what you will.
It would be impossible for action movie fans looking at the talent layed down in front of them in The Expendables and not expect the thrill of a lifetime. Dissapointingly you dont get that, action certainly doesn't fall short, the problem is what you are eventually given is terribly mediocre stuff. It was always
August 21, 2012
Super Reviewer
The Expendables begins with some promising action (although very artificial), however, the film just falls downhill from there. The action is the best attempt at awesome entertainment in a long time, but it's mixed into a very weak premise. I was very disappointed to see all of these stars go to waste! There is action
January 14, 2010Super Reviewer
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