The biggest disappointment of the year

Rating: 1/10 (18 August 2012)

I was a huge fan of the Expendables, and was hoping that this one would at least be as good (with the addition of Scott Adkins, how could it go wrong?) The movie though, rather than being a movie that can stand on its own merits, like Rambo, Terminator, or the first Expendables, it tries to sell itself on the actors and their previous movies. It comes across as cheesy, and an insulting parody of the genre, rather than an addition to it. Stallone really needs to be more involved in the making of the third one, and they have to make a movie that can stand on its own two feet, and not rely on the previous accomplishments of the stars. Right now it is remembering (and insulting) history, not making history.