The Expendables (2010)

• Year: 2010
• Released: 13 Aug 2010
• Country: United States, Bulgaria, Spain, Germany
• Adwords: 3 wins & 5 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1320253/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/The_Expendables
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-expendables
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English, Spanish
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
• Runtime: 103 min
• Writer: Dave Callaham, Sylvester Stallone
• Director: Sylvester Stallone
• Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li
• Keywords: martial arts, duringcreditsstinger, drugs, island, escape,

	6.4/10
	45/100
	42% – Critics
	64% – Audience

The Expendables Storyline

After a successful assignment to save hostages from pirates in Somalia, Barney Ross and his team of mercenaries, the “Expendables” are invited by Mr. Church to kill the corrupt General Garza, who is the dictator of the Vilena Island in the Gulf of Mexico. Mr. Church offers 5 million dollars and Barney travels with his partner Lee Christmas in their plane to Vilena to meet their local contact, Sandra. They have an incident with one troop and they flee from the island, but Sandra refuses to leave her country and is left behind. They investigate and discover that Church is actually from CIA, that wants them to do the dirty work to destroy the powerful drug dealer and rogue FBI agent James Munroe, who is using the island to grow coke. But Barney also feels divided between staying safe in USA or risky his life to save Sandra and his own soul.

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Watchable, more because of the action stars united in a single movie then anything else

A team of elite mercenaries, the Expendables, leaded by Barney Ross head to South America on a mission to overthrow a dictator of a small South American island. Barney and Lee, a knife enthusiast, meet the rebel Sandra and discover what is really happening behind the conflict in the city. Sandra is revealed to be the dictator’s daughter, and during an ambush, they need to scape and let Sandra behind. But Ross cannot let Sandra there, and to make peace with his conscience, he and his team decide to go back to the Island.

‘The Expendables’ is not a great masterpiece of the action movies but is not a terrible movie either; to be honest, as many users here already wrote, the movie is very ‘ so so’. I could say the movie is ‘satisfying’, if I need to use a word. Being honest, I was hoping for more, specially because all of the propaganda saying it would be the ‘Greatest Action Film Ever’, and also with the reunion of great names like Bruce Wilis,Schwarzenegger, Jet Li,Dolph Lundgren,etc. One of the most disappointing things in my opinion, was the fact that Arnold and Bruce were on the screen only to do a cameo appearance. A very funny cameo appearance, but still a cameo appearance. I thought Arnold and Bruce would be kicking asses with everybody, but in fact the movie centers around Stallone, Lundgren, and Statham’s characters practically.

There are some cool explosions and some nice fighting scenes, for sure, but the plot is weak and cliché, and no matter how many bombs they can explode, an ordinary plot doesn’t make a movie something incredible.

To make a small summary of what I am talking about: The movie is worthwhile because of the reunion of great legends of the action movies, but are better action films out there for sure. I would say for people to watch this movie, but with few expectations.

Action men

To say The Expendables is one of the best action films in this decade is not saying much as there really have not been many good action films in the last few years with many straight to video fodder.

Sylvester Stallone decides to go back to his 1980s glory days by rounding up a group of a current and past action stars including cameos from Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Stallone who looks in good physical shape thanks to the steroids but his face looks awful courtesy of bad plastic surgery leads the teams of big hearted mercenaries. Jason Statham, is the cockney knife thrower, Jet Li is the short ass Kung Fu one, Dolph Lundgren is the mean drug addicted one, Mickey Rourke is the philosopher/tattooist. Terry Crews and Randy Couture round up the team.

The CIA hires The Expendables to eliminate a Latin American dictator and a renegade CIA agent (Eric Roberts). Stallone gets close to the rebellious daughter of the dictator and Roberts has a few nasty henchman of his own such as Steve Austin.

There is a lot of good action sequences but it has a slight storyline. Some very good explosions but the climactic scenes shot in the dark makes it difficult to see what is actually happening unless you have those night vision goggles.

Its a fun, no brainer action film. More enjoyable first time round but really does not stand up to repeated viewing. Its the best of the The Expendables franchise as it offers something fresh and the sequels got stale rather quickly.

Boom and bust, Stallone style

I grew up on ’80s action movies, still love them to bits and love watching ass-kicking on film. When I heard Stallone was making this film, featuring an ensemble cast of ageing action stars and deliberately harking back to ’80s cinema, I was excited. I consider the 2008 RAMBO to be his best movie as star and director and I was hoping this would be somewhere nearly as good. It isn’t, but it’s still a fun movie. First off, the problems. The plot is all over the place. Long scenes are wasted introducing Jason Statham’s ex-girlfriend character and then nothing happens with her – she just disappears and you don’t see her again. The story, about overthrowing the dictator of a small island in South America and tackling his nefarious businessman colleague, feels like a half-baked reprise of COMMANDO. But let’s be fair here – nobody goes to see THE EXPENDABLES for the plot.

No, my biggest problem is with Stallone’s direction, which previously has been fine. Here, he decides to adopt a shaky-cam style for every action scene in the film, be it the explosive climax, a car chase or even a martial arts bout with star Jet Li. Paul Greengrass added heaps to his Bourne movies by utilising the shaky-cam, but it’s a big detraction (not to mention distraction) here. Stallone’s camera seems to be all over the place, to the extent that you can barely make out what’s going on in any of the fight scenes. Moments like the ‘tunnel fight’, which variously sees Statham, Li, Stallone, Gary Daniels, and Steve Austin engaged in all manner of frenetic physical combat – become just okay. Maybe I was just sitting too near to the front of the cinema, but I fear not.

Otherwise, this film works just fine. The script adopts the right tone with plenty of referential humour for the fans. Stallone is still at his physical peak, and Statham the usual smooth-shaven action man we’re used to from TRANSPORTER and CRANK. Dolph Lundgren has a ball as a slightly deranged fighter and Jet Li is the brunt of many jokes as the token Asian. I’m not a big fan of wrestlers or sportsmen, but Randy Couture, Steve Austin and Terry Crews are all sufficiently hulking to add to the film’s look, and Eric Roberts entertains as the deliciously sleazy bad guy. Mickey Rourke’s in this for little more than a cameo, but he has an oddly touching moment, while one of my biggest joys was seeing British fighter Gary Daniels as one of the bad guy henchmen. Looks like he’s going up in the world. Much publicity surrounded the five-minute scene in this in which Stallone meets up with the guest stars – it’s as funny as you could hope for. As for the action, it’s over the top and extremely loud, involving our heroes flying planes and shooting or blowing up the bad guys, taking them down in hand-to-hand fights and smashing up some vehicles in frenetic car chases. The ending is as noisy and destructive as anything I’ve seen, and the best part of the film. A twenty minute sequence of chaos, calamity and kick-ass moves. My favourite part? Terry Crews and his hang cannon, which makes short work of the enemy.

Addendum: I’ve recently watched the director’s cut of THE EXPENDABLES for the first time and I can report that it makes a BIG difference. Not only is an extra ten minutes of characterisation added – thus giving the film more heart and soul – but the whole thing has been re-edited to lost a lot of the choppiness the film suffered from originally. I have a feeling that Stallone was forced to rush the editing in the run-up to the film’s cinema release, so he used the first opportunity he had to come back and tidy it up and the result is this: slicker, better paced, and much smoother. The action scenes have also been tightened up nicely so that they flow much better. The director’s cut is definitely the version to watch.