Featuring your dad’s favourite action stars. The Expendables is everything that you expect from it; it’s a hyper-masculine, testosterone-fuelled fest with little sense and little depth. Just sit back and watch some ageing old-school stars blow shit up.
In the fictional South American country of Vilena, a general (David Zayas) rules, and Barney and Lee (Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham) get tasked with assassinating the leader by a mysterious client, who only credits himself as Church (Bruce Willis).
The Expendables has no depth, to the point that there is nothing to their characters besides their fighting style. Its enviable cast gets moments to shine, which we will get into, but some of them just show up for a scene or two, just to pull viewers. Bruce Willis is only there for one scene, and so is Arnold Schwarzenegger, who just disappears. Maybe we’ll see more of them in the sequel, but there was nothing to them.
There were some hilarious cheesy one-liners, the kind you would expect from a film like The Expendables, but it dries up like the plot, which is something we have seen a hundred times before: a foreign mercenary has to be taken down by a bunch of all-American crew. The cast is amazing though; Statham shines as the knife-wielding mercenary, and Stallone brings the physicality. Terry Crews makes a late entrance but still manages to have standout scenes.
Its action won’t leave you disappointed. There’s a ton of explosions, bullet-flying, and people dying. The team has no problem running through their enemies and cuts through them like a knife running through butter.
Featuring your dad’s favourite action stars. The Expendables is everything that you expect from it; it’s a hyper-masculine, testosterone-fuelled fest with little sense and little depth. Just sit back and watch some ageing old-school stars blow shit up.
In the fictional South American country of Vilena, a general (David Zayas) rules, and Barney and Lee (Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham) get tasked with assassinating the leader by a mysterious client, who only credits himself as Church (Bruce Willis).
The Expendables has no depth, to the point that there is nothing to their characters besides their fighting style. Its enviable cast gets moments to shine, which we will get into, but some of them just show up for a scene or two, just to pull viewers. Bruce Willis is only there for one scene, and so is Arnold Schwarzenegger, who just disappears. Maybe we’ll see more of them in the sequel, but there was nothing to them.
There were some hilarious cheesy one-liners, the kind you would expect from a film like The Expendables, but it dries up like the plot, which is something we have seen a hundred times before: a foreign mercenary has to be taken down by a bunch of all-American crew. The cast is amazing though; Statham shines as the knife-wielding mercenary, and Stallone brings the physicality. Terry Crews makes a late entrance but still manages to have standout scenes.
Its action won’t leave you disappointed. There’s a ton of explosions, bullet-flying, and people dying. The team has no problem running through their enemies and cuts through them like a knife running through butter.
