Platypuschow
To me The Expendables franchise is a pretencious vanity project.Yeah sure I get it, all the most famous action stars thrown together for old school action. I understand the appeal, I just don't like it.Now despite what my profiles analytics say I don't really like action movies, they're not my thing unless they have a lot of other themed content (Action/horror etc). Sure I respect the old school original action films, they had a certain novelty charm to them but here it comes across as recycled as much as it does a homage.Considering the list of famous names the action isn't as explosive as you'd imagine and the fight scenes are really quite lame. How can you have Stallone/Arnie/Willis and not have the best action? How can you have Van Damme/Norris/Jet Li and not have great fight scenes? It's like they decided they didn't need to make the effort because they had the cast, well you did.The Expendables 2 is on par with the first movie, namely brainless action with a generic cliched storyline and nothing even remotely original.It's like they took all these stars, threw them into a paint by numbers action flick and assumed it would work. Oh wait, it did. The franchise has been very successful. I'm sure it's nostalgic for the old and new and exciting for the young.Well it doesn't appeal to me. Call me weird but I want more than gun fights, explosions and fist fights. I want story, I want substance, I want originality.The Good:Old school actionFew neat action movie referencesThe Bad:Statham still can't act for crapSome of the cgi is ropey, really shouldn't have been any anywayMindlessThings I Learnt From This Movie:Charisma Carpenter is improving with ageReal heroes open fire with high impact automatic weapons even when innocents are in the same direction
JokerMichel
The Expendables 2 is the best of the trilogy.I like the cast a lot but the plot is still weak and could be a lot better . I would like to see another sequel (Expendables 4) where they make a better plot and develop a better script, this would be nice to watch
ronaldomessirroney
I really don't have much to say about this movie as I don't remember it too well.
All I remember was that Chuck Norris was in it and there was a fight in an airport.
Jon_Snow_21
This movie is so fun. It's just a bunch of action scenes. If you like straight action movies with really good action scenes and awesome one liners, this is your movie. It's not a masterpiece like John Wick but it's so fun to watch. The action scenes are really well done and that's what makes this movie so good. I'm young so I don't care much for the reunion of old actors aspect of the movie but those one liners are awesome (except that cringeworthy scene at the airport with Church and Trench).This scene contains three major action scenes and my favorite is the first. It's extremely over the top and extremely awesome. One issue I had with this scene is that they put the title of the movie right after! I feel like this really brings us out of the movie when they do this especially when the scene is 15 minutes long! It's really annoying. It is an awesome spectacular scene though. The airport fight was also really awesome. With a movie like this, you would expect no emotion and no suspense but while far from a drama or a suspense thriller, this movie has a bit of both. When Billy dies, it's extremely sad. The final scene where Villain and Barney fight actually has some tension. Barney is really beat up and you kind of feel like he's overpowered by Villain.This movie gets an 8/10 because it has no story. It's the best you could get from a straight up action movie. It's really far from a masterpiece but I'm going to say this again, it's the best you could possibly want from a straight up action movie with awesome one liners.
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