Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Stratham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Steve Austin, Terry Crews, Mickey Rourke
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Rating: C
This was not a good movie. The
plot was lame, the acting was mediocre, the…. Really, the everything was not
good. The thing that I liked about The Expendables,
however, is that it is exactly what it presents itself as. This movie is little more than a mindless
action flick filled with a bunch of old action stars. It’s not trying to be anything more than
that, it’s not pretending to be anything more than that. Consequently, while the movie itself is
definitely bad it’s also fun.
Because the plot technically is important, I’ll summarize the
premise. The Expendables are a group of
bikers and elite mercenaries, lead by Barney Ross (Stallone), and composed of a
ragtag group of fighters, many of whom look like they’re dangerously close to
overdosing on steroids. Ross is given a contract to overthrow a
dictator in an island in the Gulf of Mexico, where things all go to shit.
This movie is unbelievably predictable and ridiculous and tried and
tested and true. And it’s awesome
because despite all that it’s fun. It’s
totally the movie that you watch after a long day when you just want to see
stuff blow up. To be fair, though, that’s
what most of Stallone’s movies are like, along with most of the rest of the
cast. This isn’t good, but it’s fun.
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