laugh your face off

Rating: 8/10 (18 August 2012)

Expendables 2 instantly starts with one of the best movie openings I have seen in a long time. Stuff blowing up, heads popping, one-liners, and Jet Li smashing bad guys with a frying pan. After this we have an awesome appearance of Arnold Schwarzenegger which is followed up buy a boat and plane chase scene, with more explosions and violence. After this scene is finished we see the heroes escape and then the movie title pops up with the words Expendables 2. Unfortunately the action dies down for about 45 minutes of dialogue with the occasional action punch to the face or knife to the chest and this is the part of the movie that you take a nap in. when you wake up you will notice that Jet Li is replaced by Nan Yu, and Liam Hemsworth is no longer in the movie. This is were the movie falls short. The only character with any store was Liam Hemsworth, but they killed him off in that 45 mins of pointless dialogue, and Nan Yu is just a boring. By now you also tried of hearing there stupid nicknames and wish that they just used there actor names. This hole middle part of the movie should of been replaced with action and violence. After the wait we are rewarded with the Chuck Norris action scene, Jason Statham in a monk suit killing badies, and the return of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Now that the movie is back were ready for the last battle and it was epic. We finally have Chuck Norris, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Bruce Willis fighting evil people all in the same room well delivering awesome one-liners. There is even a scene were Willis and Schwarzenegger are in a Smart Car and shooting out of it. The ending is Sylvester Stallone's one-on-one with the bad guy leader. A few more jokes and a sad finishing scene. over all it was a good movie but nothing more. I hope for a sequel that is pure action with the only dialogue being one-liners. That would be the best movie ever!!!!!