BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

scottrobson I have and always will love action films. I felt like this film was made just for me. Everything I wanted from an action movie was here on display. Extreme violence, dodgy dialogue, paper thin plot, cartoon villain and it never gives up. Great to see the big names having fun with t and having little pops at themselves too. Chuck's scenes were brilliant and the there's Van Damme! I'm a huge fan of his and he is excellent in this. Brilliant final fight scene too. Role on No.4

Michael Ledo We love the movies when the old guys get together: "Expendables", "Red", and "Rocky 24" or whatever. What this movie demonstrates is that it is not enough to get the cast together to rehash old lines (heck it would have been nice to have seen more of that) but you really need a good script and some good new lines.The opening sequence is a quick scene of the Expendables fighting Chinese communists. The good guys have round eyes and say, "Yo", while the bad guys don't...with 2 exceptions: Yin Yang (Jet Li) who is a good guy and some CIA agent who was a bad guy. I kept trying to figure out how his presence would figure back into the plot, but the film wasn't that deep. At one point Barney (Stallone) is running in the jungle, the next minute he is flying a plane? Did my theater cut out a scene?Church (Bruce Willis) sends our group on a new mission which includes the new guy Bill the Kid (Liam Hemsworth) who wants to make this his last mission. As a loyal Trekkie I already knew what was going to happen to the new guy in the landing party. This then leads to a "payback" mission over an improbable scenario written by someone who knows nothing about the handling and storage of weapons grade plutonium.The film attempts to force new memorable lines on us like "Rest in Pieces" which made me cringe. Arnold and Norris provide some cameo appearances with Jean-Claude Van Damme playing the bad guy...not just any bad guy but one with a Satanic goat tattoo on his neck. Seriously?Stallone has done better. For all the big names, this is a mediocre script.PARENTAL GUIDE: 1 F-Bomb, no sex, no nudity.

2karl- The expendables are back and its war baby so Stallone has given up the directors chair but still done the screenplay he is better for it with the all the 80's actors are back with more story to them as well as the newbies. Liam hemsworth id brilliant as the sniper from the army the team signs up for a mission that looks like an easy paycheck , but things go wrong for Barney and his band of old school mercenaries when one of their gets killed by a psychotic terrorist for hire van dame character . there is more one liners from Arnie wills and co taking the the pi#s out of their own famous catchphrases like Arnie says to wilis I'll be back willis say you have been back all ready so as they hunt in Austria they cut a swathe of destruction with all weapons at their hands going through enemy territory in a made up american city for the enemy to play in and barney meets up with the village people to find the men in an under ground and shut down an unexpected threat in the nick of time loads of battles explosions and try to prevent a weapons grade plutonium from getting into the wrong hands this 1hr38mins I gave it 7 out of ten not bad at all this is my 247 review.

Tss5078 Sylvester Stallone had a brilliant idea that came to fruition in 2010, with an action movie that brought together all the big names in the action movie genre, but there was a problem. You just can't fit every big name into one movie and give them all significant screen time, so you had to have a sequel. The more things change, the more they stay the same, however, as this time, the story was a bit better, at least for an action movie, and the cast was a bit younger, but the basic genre was still the same. Barney Ross's (Sylvester Stallone) team is once again brought together to do a job, this time there are some new younger faces, to complete what seems like what should be an easy job, what they weren't expecting was to stumble right into the middle of a madman's master-plan. As I said, the story wasn't as basic this time, things were a little more complex, but on a basic level this is still you're typical shoot em up action film, with bodies and explosions constantly coming at you. What I did like was how they change things up a bit and didn't just feature the same actors, even though many members of the team were the same. The one thing the first film was severely lacking was youth, and I don't know about you, but I'd much rather see Liam Hemsworth fighting with his shirt off than Sylvester Stallone. All in all, the sequel doesn't differ that much from the original, but where it does, only helps the series. The cast is younger, the story is better, and the action hits harder. If you're an action junkie, it doesn't get more exciting than the Expendables and the sequel will have you craving a trilogy.