a great movie they don't make them like this anymore too bad.

Rating: 10/10 (14 October 2010)

The Expendables is a throwback to the golden age of the action movie the 80's. The Story is simple Barney Ros leads a group of Mercs called the expendables if you got the right money you can hire them. Ross and company have just finished a mission and fired one of their own for conduct unbecoming The Man Gunner Jenson wonderfully played by Dolph Lundgren has become too messed up he's stoned or as Lee Christmas Ross's Right hand man says the life got to him. The Expendables are given a contract to go to the island of Vilena to take out a Corrupt leader so Ross and Christmas go and do a re con and meet a woman named Sandra who is their contact she takes them on a guided tour of Hell. Suddenly everything goes wrong and Ross And Christmas must battle their way out of there when Sandra is captured. The Expendables also find out the truth they were offered a contract to take out a rogue CIA agent named Jack Monroe played with great effect by Eric Roberts. Monroe and the General have turned the island into their own drug production factory the CIA can t have the embarrassment of one of their own turning rogue and becoming a drug kingpin so they hired them to kill him. But Ross turns it down he does not want to get involved with the CIA again. But he can't get Sandra off of his mind and the nobility she displayed so in a effort to save what's left of his soul the Expendables return to the island. But not before a fantastic battle occurs between Jet Li and Dolph Lundgren in one of the best filmed action scenes of the movie. The Film 's climatic ending left me cheering and I also felt Stallone has grown as a writer and a director. He gives us a scene that 20 years ago would not have been filmed in which Ross meets Monroe's Hench man Paine played with bad intentions by Steve Austin Paine beats him in a fight and when Christmas asks him what he's doing Ross replies Getting my ass kicked. Something Stallone would've never done 20 years ago back then he had to win every fight now he's allowing others that right in his movies. the Expendables is not the greatest film ever made nor is it the worst but to a real action fan it's pure gold.