As an action movie whore I have been eagerly awaiting The Expendables for quite some time. I mean even the thought of an action film with this many action stars was great. As expected The Expendables does what it sought out to do brillantly.
The Expendables are an elite team of merceniaries led by Barney Ross(Sylvester Stallone). Their most recent job is to go to the island of Vilena and overthrow a dictator named Garza(David Zayas). After discovering intel The Expendables find out that an ex-CIA agent(Eric Roberts) is working with Garza to keep Vilena a dictatorship. It is up to Ross and the rest of his team including expert knife thrower Lee Christmas (Jason Statham),martial arts expert Yin Yang(Jet Li) and explosives expert Toll Road(Randy Couture) to stop them from completely overrunning the country and killing Garza's daughter.
Clearly The Expendables is not a film that prides itself on plot. It is a shoot'em up old school action film and it knows it. It never takes itself too seriously and know its campy. Sylvester Stallone had one goal in mind with this movie and that goal was to make a kick-ass action movie and he prevailed. The action sequences are jaw-droppingly good. The last 45 minutes is pretty much just a giant bloodbath that will leave you out of breath. On top of all the action it was great to see all these action stars sharing a screen. Seeing legends like Stallone with today's action heroes like Jason Statham and Jet Li was pretty much an action-movie fan's dream come true.
The Expendables is a great action film. It is brainless fun and if you like action movies in this vein than The Expendables is essentially a wet dream for you. It is an hour and forty-five minutes of pure adrenaline and testerone in film form. The Expendables is big,dumb,loud and I loved every damn minute of it.
4.5/5 Stars
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