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On August 13, 2010 an action film, The Expendables, starring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke, Randy Couture, Terry Crews, Eric Roberts, Stone Cold, Steve Austin, David Zayas, Gisele Itié, Charisma Carpenter, Gary Daniels, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, is released in United States.

If you are looking for a fun filled, loud, explosive action movie, this movie is the one you definitely want to see. The movies that Hollywood seems to be putting out lately are making a stab at being smart and thrilling with a surprise ending. Well, The Expendables gives you plenty of flying bullets, splashing blood, torsos being blown apart and wicked fight scenes.

The Expendables combines guns, knives, women and lots of action. The acting is supported by a great cast and the battles are made up of believable opponents. This movie is perfect for the rainy Saturday that you can’t be on the links.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid epitomized the scene where the guy jumps off the cliff into water as a huge fiery ball of death explodes them into the air. This movie has plenty of that and much more action that will keep you on the edge of your seat. This is the kind of film that you used to half dream about with your friends in the “what if” mode. All the best known action stars are being brought to the screen all at once for a chaotic orgy of explosions, bodies flying and bloody gore.

The story is sort of baffling while incorporating cocaine plantations, government conspiracies, and motorcycle gangs. Add your own imagination to the blanks the movie gives you. It is filled with imaginative violence of every kind you can think of. The whole thing is exploding or being torn apart and people die with the same fake blood bursts of gore that made Rambo a mess of murderous fun. Between the neck-breaking fighting and the occasional sense of humor, The Expendables earns its thumbs up for a violence packed action filled movie that the hard core violence freaks out there just love.

Jason Statham is the one who pilfers the show at his clench-jawed best when he dons the kind of sycophantic superciliousness that injects some much-needed flippancy into the mix. The script rarely permits for these moments, but when Sly, who co-wrote the screenplay, labors with Statham and Jet Li, it’s like he’s giving authorization for the audience to breathe out. Dolph Lundgren, Eric Roberts, Randy Couture and Steve Austin fill in the holes, though none really feature deeply into the story.

Mickey Rourke, who plays an ex-armed forces-man-evolved-tattoo-’artiste’, is preserved for moments of contemplation, rather than breaking into the scrimmage. He soliloquizes about his loss of compassion as he and Stallone scour their insides for some pity from the spectators. In this screening, they were met with sighs of apathy and a few checks of the watch.

Stallone knows how to direct action, but he does not understand camera coverage. The Expendables really undermines his ability. There’s not a single component that works well enough to justify the price of admission – but, had Stallone collaborated with decent writers, there was so much that he might have done with this movie. The Expendables takes the most hackneyed of these industry clichés and wears them with pride while the audience sits in confusion. This story could have been created with more depth.

Don’t look for deep meaning in this movie. It is superfluously full of violence and battle, and the war movie crowd is going to eat this up hook line and sinker. It is not recommended for kids under fourteen. There is a lot of blood and gore and it is not appropriate for younger audiences; they would have nightmares for weeks afterwards. But for those who can clearly distinguish between real and Hollywood, this is a good generic action movie to occupy a couple of hour’s time with.

The Expendables brings very little to the audience that is worth boasting about. The story could’ve been written on a hamburger wrapper and napkin for all the wit and depth it provides. In the face of respectable choreography and plenty of pandemonium, the poor camerawork is so disturbing and perplexing that it converts even the most straightforward hand-to-hand combat into a chaos of coarse edits.

The Expendables fails on more fronts than it succeeds. It’s a bitter pill to swallow – we’re with you there – but it’s a dark day indeed when a film can bring together so many promising elements and, when the curtains close, leave you wondering exactly what the heck you just sat through – and if you even enjoyed it at all. I’ll wait for this one to come out on DVD and be placed on the discount movie aisle.

The plot and the action are what action movie fans are looking for. For those who want a movie that has some intellectual content or is even mildly close to realisms, this is not the movie for you. The violence is just the plain blood and guts that most guys are hungering for and can’t get with a night of football. Stallone is notorious for the violence in his movies, all the way back to Rocky Balboa and Rambo. His career has been based on violence and he excels at the portrayal of this genre. Unfortunately it does not provide a showcase for all his talents and the areas of directing that he really is best in, which is the action packed movement and choreography that goes into creating a movie of this sort.

The martial arts movements alone that Stallone is very capable of are missing in the details of this movie. The structured movements of each of the martial arts would have given some depth and focus to the violence of this movie. As a fight choreographer it is hard to find anyone in Hollywood that can do it better than Stallone, unless it is of course Van Damme, who also excels in this area of movie making. The two of them could have coordinated a much better plot for the substance of this movie and decorated with the violence scenes instead of the other way around. I found the violence actually getting boring after a while and becoming mundane.

The Expendables is directed by Sylvester Stallone, written by Dave Callaham, Sylvester Stallone, and produced Avi Lerner, Kevin King Templeton, John Thompson, Robert Earl. The movie is distributed by Lionsgate, California Films.

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