ANOTHER EXPLOSIVE WILD RIDE WITH THE EXPENDABLES

Rating: 9/10 (19 January 2020)

A great follow-up to the Awesome first film, this sequel is much harder & grittier this time around & our team of mercenaries are on a mission of vengeance when one of their team, a new young member played by Liam Hemsworth, is killed on their latest mission by the new villain called "Vilain" played perfectly by Action legend Van Damme, now he makes a great evil & deadly badguy & a good rival for Stallone but i would've liked him to have been one of the Expendables team members but I'm glad he's here anyway!!! Van Damme does give a gritty, merciless & menacingly cold performance here.
The team are all back in an even more stylised Action Thriller, the look & cinematography is very gritty & harsh & the Awesome theme music blasts as the non-stop thrilling action kicks in.
The cast again is great with some new additions with obviously Van Damme but also with the excellent but underrated Scott Adkins as Damme's right hand man "Hector" & the guy is an Awesome tough as hell villain, there's also a return of the Action king Schwarzenegger back as "Trench" the other mercenary who often works with Barney Ross, it's a bigger part & just his presence in the film makes it feel more important as an action ensemble piece, we also get Bruce Willis back as the mysterious "Church" in a bigger part & a great extended cameo by Action veteran Chuck Norris as "Booker" & with a cast like that it makes me wanna cheer.
This sequel is a blast of adrenaline pumping action & brutal fight scenes, this is a much more fast & furious action Thriller with a very cool fight between Stallone & Van Damme, now the fight is good & well done but not Amazing as you would expect from these two action greats & it's kind of one sided as it's Stallone's film & Van Damme gave up too easily but IT'S a solid fight just not Amazing.
Jason Statham is Awesome once again & works so well with Stallone, if you liked the first film then you will love this sequel.
A great fun wild action packed ride with our old school action heroes!!!