Average action movie, best cast ever

Rating: 8/10 (9 May 2020)

I wouldn't otherwise rate The Expendables 2 very high but its mindblowing cast just cannot be ignored. The first movie was already good (and perhaps with a better story) but I still think that this second part manages to do the all-star cast thing even better, which ultimately was the whole point of these films.
If somebody told me in the 90's that there will be a movie with Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Willis, Norris, Lundgren, and Van Damme in the same movie that would have sounded like talk of crazy person. So, I give extra points for the sheer herculean task of getting all these guys involved. Especially cool to see Chuck Norris who wasn't in the first film.
Occasional self-irony is okay but I think Arnold's "I'm back" went a little bit overboard.
This movie cannot be rated in normal rating standards. It exists in a separate action movie dimension that you either like or not...and in that context it's great.