Who is the Audience for This Movie?

People who love 90’s action movies.

What I Liked About This Movie

Any movie that has this many big name action stars is guaranteed to attract male eyeballs. There is enough testosterone fueled violence on display throughout the Expendables to make everyone you’re watching the movie with want to just fight anyone/anything for no reason at all. This is by far the manliest movie ever made. Case in point; there is a scene with a three way conversation between Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone, and Arnold Schwarzenegger in a church that contains no violence yet just seeing all three of them dishing out dialogue jabs at each other makes you want to drink a beer (or other alcoholic beverage) and pretend to be as cool as they are.

Did you read the cast list in my synopsis? Ridiculous isn’t it. Of course the 90’s action heroes are going to do some damage but it’s the younger guys that end up having the most bad ass scenes. Statham’s character likes a good knife and boy does he ever gruesomely use them to there fullest. The two least impressive (from a cast list standpoint) actors Terry Crews and UFC fighter Randy Couture both bring the heat (literally) Crews not only has the coolest scene in the movie he also gets the nicest looking shot.

The Expendables knows what men like in their action movies; lots of gun play, explosions and car chases. NO ONE can say that The Expendables does not provide more then adequate amounts of all three I would go as far as to say it contains more of all three then I have seen in one movie in many years.

What Didn’t Work For Me

I get that The Expendables was meant to be an homage to all of the movies all the big name actors in this movie have been in but they could have at least omitted the terrible aspects of those movies. Specifically my issue is with the editing, plotting, and pacing. In the case of The Expendables these three aspects are all problematic because they seem like they don’t matter all. The attention must have been paid to the action instead because there are weird lulls between the action that are pointless and the little character motivation that is given is totally unbelievable.

The large cast has already been mentioned what I didn’t speak on is how they are utilized. All of the squad members are given their “moment” I just wish they all integrated together a little smoother and wish they had balanced the on-screen time characters were given more evenly.

Should You Watch This Movie?

If you have male genetalia you shouldn’t have to read this review because you know you have to see this movie. Thankfully it’s pretty good.

My Rating (Out of 13)