Such a Waste

Rating: 2/10 (23 October 2013)

I'm a fan. I enjoy the mindless action movies of yesteryear. I want nothing more than to see Commando or Rambo II for the first time. I wanted to like Expendables 2, but it doesn't work.
Maybe it was it too hard to ask the stars of this film to take it seriously. They didn't and it shows on the screen. The opening sequence depicts an incredible set of action scenes, each one more glorious and deadly than the last. But you wouldn't know it by the dialog. It seems like the superstar actors are having fun on the set, not like they are in a war zone. Sometimes they utter one of their trademark one-liners to make fun of their on-screen personas. Those are good for a quick laugh, but they're bad for the movie.
I never like it when I hear that my favorite action movies are pointlessly violent, but that's the way I feel about Expendables 2.Take the top three movies of any one of the successful action stars in this movie, and Expendables 2 doesn't come close to any of them.