The Expendables: Movie Review

The Expendables kicks you in the face with pure adrenaline and awesomeness right from the very first minute. Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) leads a rag-tag gang of mercenaries who don't ask questions when it comes to taking a job.  Their jobs fall on the side of being hired by governmental agencies or corporations to do what needs to be done when they can't do it themselves. After a job where one of their group, Gunner Jenson (Dolph Lundgren), goes rogue the group of mercenaries decide to take a job offered by the CIA (enter Bruce Willis & Arnold Schwarzenegger) which takes them to the small island of Vilena in South America. Their mission is to kill dictator General Garza (David Zayas); a battle unevenly matched as Barney's five man team must face a small army to get close to completing the task.

Stallone knows action and he delivers. Bringing together some of the world's best action stars to front this film Stallone just nailed it. Jet Li, Jason Statham, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Dolph Lundgren, Steve Austin, and of course Sylvester Stallone rock the audience with an hour and a half of pure action. Oh yeah, Mickey Rourke is in it too - but his character does jackshit. As for a film in general: sure, there are plot holes... the script has moments of weakness... the love interest is boring... but who cares, we get to see a guy shoot a shotgun machine gun that launches 250 rounds per minute tearing holes through people. We get to see heads being blown off and body limbs torn off. There is an action scene where Jet Li karate kicks a guy in the neck breaking it so badly that it hangs loosely BACKWARDS. Sure, the violence is so extreme that it borders on hilarious - but it's so bad that it's amazing.

This is the movie that twenty years from now my children will be watching and loving the way I can sit down and watch Rambo or Rocky and love it. Stallone isn't new to the writing and directing chair either with a resume of great films behind him. All I can say is that Sylvester Stallone is the Clint Eastwood of extremely violent action films and I hope he never changes. 

If you like violent action films than this is the films for you. Fuck Inception! This is the movie of the summer!

I may just have to go and see it again!

4.5 out of 5 stars!