Expendables Destroys All High Expectations, the only real action!

Rating: 4/10 (22 August 2010)

Very bad character development and cliché story but the action scenes are quite impressive while most of the film is a cross of mediocre and bad. The characters have very awkward and strange development and traits being grown throughout the film with very rushed development from almost every character. The only character that was very interesting and developing was Mickey Rourke's character, very underrated and developing character that was only in it for 15 mins or so and Mickey plays this character very well, I just wish he had more screen time. The story is basically Rambo 4 with humor and super cliché puns, by the way the movie had constant puns. The writing is mediocre and I wouldn't say I didn't understand what most of the characters were saying because I could totally understand the dialogue but with heavy accents of course. The cinematography and visuals were just fine, pretty standard while the CGI and special effects were just terrible, there is a scene where a character catches on fire... and it looks like a kid was using an old special effects system on the character, the fire looked so fake and really dull as well as the other CGI explosions. The high points of this movie is the action scenes, very creative and interesting. The love story between Stallone and the main girl really didn't do anything through out the film, it should have been removed from the story overall. Most of the characters never develop and most of them could be removed from the movie. Overall, its not the greatest film but I kind of figured from Stallone that this movie would be mediocre and just fine, which happened. Not bad but not good either.