The Expendables 2 (2012)

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Can't rave enough about these movies! Simply put... AMAZING!

The Expendables 2 is completely ridiculous and totally cheesy - yet I would be lying if I said I didn't enjoy this movie. Yes, the acting is terrible. Yes, the dialogue is worse. Yes, the characters are flat, and no, the plot doesn't make sense, but there's something irresistibly entertaining about this chaotic homage to action movies of the past. This movie is pure, adrenalized fun, and it's much better than the first installment.

To me The Expendables franchise is a pretencious vanity project.Yeah sure I get it, all the most famous action stars thrown together for old school action. I understand the appeal, I just don't like it.Now despite what my profiles analytics say I don't really like action movies, they're not my thing unless they have a lot of other themed content (Action/horror etc). Sure I respect the old school original action films, they had a certain novelty charm to them but here it comes across as recycled as much as it does a homage.Considering the list of famous names the action isn't as explosive as you'd imagine and the fight scenes are really quite lame. How can you have Stallone/Arnie/Willis and not have the best action? How can you have Van Damme/Norris/Jet Li and not have great fight scenes? It's like they decided they didn't need to make the effort because they had the cast, well you did.The Expendables 2 is on par with the first movie, namely brainless action with a generic cliched storyline and nothing even remotely original.It's like they took all these stars, threw them into a paint by numbers action flick and assumed it would work. Oh wait, it did. The franchise has been very successful. I'm sure it's nostalgic for the old and new and exciting for the young.Well it doesn't appeal to me. Call me weird but I want more than gun fights, explosions and fist fights. I want story, I want substance, I want originality.The Good:Old school actionFew neat action movie referencesThe Bad:Statham still can't act for crapSome of the cgi is ropey, really shouldn't have been any anywayMindlessThings I Learnt From This Movie:Charisma Carpenter is improving with ageReal heroes open fire with high impact automatic weapons even when innocents are in the same direction

Watched The Expendables 2 Feauturing Sylvester Stallone(Rambo) as Barney Ross ,Jason Statham(The Transporter) as Lee Christmas ,Jet Li(Hero) as Ying Yang , Dolph Lundgren(Universal Soldier) as Gunner, Chuck Norris(Walker:Texas Ranger) as Gunner ,Terry Crews(Training Day) as Hale Caeser , Randy Couture(Red Belt) as Toll Road , Liam Hemsworth(The Hunger Games ) as Billy The Kid , Jean-Claude Van Damme(Double Impact ) As Jean Villain,Bruce Willis(Die Hard ) as Church,Yu Nan(Wind Blast) as Maggie Chan, Scott Adkins(The Bourne Ulitmatum) as Hector and Arnold Schwartznegger(Terminator 2:Judgement Day) as Trench Mauser. I enjoyed This Action flick it was cool seeing the Action Heroes of 80's Get Together also Glad to see More Trench The story was pretty Standard Revenge flick other than that it was fun .Fantastic Cinematography by Shelley Johnson(Captain America:The First Avenger), Production Design By Paul Cross(Babylon A.D. ) Costume Design By Lizz Wolf(Nemesis) , Amazing Score from Brian Tyler(Battle:LA) and Direction By Simon West(The Mechanic) A Fun But Standard Action Flick with 80's Action Heroes 7/10