much worse than the first part

Rating: 2/10 (4 October 2014)

There is one significant difference between The Expendables 2 and the first installment: The script has been written by a high school pupil in love with action movies. Otherwise it is the same as all Stallone action flicks since the 1980's, a trend that would probably continue in The Expendables 3. Thanks to the stellar cast and all cameos, Sylvester Stallone might even be hailed as a savior of the "classical" action film. But we're getting sidetracked...
The Expendables was not particularly good, but was watchable, unlike The Expendables 2. After the success of the first part, the writers stopped worrying about physics or limitations of human body. To compensate for that, they filled the script with references on other movies by the same actors, as well as internet jokes about them. The best example is the cameo of Chuck Norris. It goes without saying that these were actually jokes on high school level, because The Expendables 2 probably tried to tap into the audience of the corresponding age.