The Expendables – Pow, Stab, Bang, BOOM!
The Expendables may have the most pressure on it of any movie ever, just look at the cast list
Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Terry Crewes, Mickey Rourke, Stone Cold Steve Austin and cameo’s by Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger. It’s cast are all legends and almost all of them are used to headlining their own movies.
Question:How can you possibly live up to that?
Answer: With some good fights, lethal knife usage for brutal kills, lots of guns and a ludicrous amount of explosions. The only thing Expendable about this is the plot which is vintage 80s storytelling (i.e. the story is more of an excuse than an actual plot and you know that’s deliberate here). Oh and Charisma Carpenter has a small role in it and is still hotter than all of the explosions in the film combined.
The Glory
So much glorious content for action heads, although Arnie is only in it for a couple of minutes, he is a one liner machine in that time. Dolph vs Jet Li, Stallone vs Stone Cold, when you’ve got fights like those, there’s no need to worry about plot, just sit back and make sure you’ve got plenty of popcorn as this film is an unashamed action film. A reminder that simple can be brilliant. There are highlights aplenty including Dolph being just plain awesome as a drugged up mercenary who’s gone way too far over the line, Terry Crewes with the biggest, loudest and most destructive gun there is and him doing an insane shot putt that has to be seen to be believed. Jet Li deserves praise for showing more character than in a lot of his own films, he cracked me up a few times and still managed to crack the limbs of his opponents in usual fashion. Stone Cold makes a helluva good bad guy and for the love of God just stop reading and go book your tickets. Sly is Sly and that alone is worth watching a movie for, never mind with this kind of backup. Randy Couture doesn’t get much character sadly but he is a beast of a fighter in it. I wish there was more of him and Terry Crewes in it but hey, maybe a sequel, Stallone isn’t adverse to making those 
Anyway, I loved this film and I really hope this does well enough to warrant a sequel because it was FUN, moreso than the A-Team, which tried to take itself seriously. The Expendables rocks and you really need a cinema sized screen and surround sound to do it justice.
Here’s a trailer because I can, and it’s great and I enjoy watching it..
