It delivers but it also doesn't.

Rating: 6/10 (13 December 2010)

Sylvester Stallone never usually lets me down with his directing skills. I loved all four Rambo movies and the first three Rocky movies. But now we have the Expendables which is supposed to be a mindless, all star cast, no holds barred action movie with plenty of bullets flying, heads exploding, and lots of things being blown up real good. I knew what I was getting into but the movie failed for me because of two things. First, the camera shots. Yes, the camera shots are lousy. My other complaint is that a lot of scenes in the movie are too dark to see. Mix the terrible lighting with the lousy camera work and you have a disaster of a movie.It doesn't matter how good the action is if we can't even see what the heck is going on! But somewhere behind the madness there's good choreographed fight scenes and over the top action sequences. Too bad you can't make out what's going on in several scenes.