Not as good as expected

Rating: 6/10 (14 August 2010)

I cut right to the chase: You expect the that THE EXPENDABLES will be an 80s style action flick. Lots of action, stupid plot, explosions and macho one-liners. While you get a hunch of all that, THE EXPENDABLES fails by presenting to many characters who don't have anything interesting to do at all. Also the action scenes, or basically THE action scene, since the whole second part consists of the grand finale whereas the first half is utterly boring,okay so the action isn't choreographed or filmed in the 80s fashion. You have fast cuts, shaky cam, confusing camera angels and lot's of CGI blood. Some fights are just wack. The fight between Jet Li and Dolph Lundgren is one of the worst Jet Li fights of all times. Basically all the hand to hand actions sucks a lot. Another thing that I really didn't like are the many bad one-liners, and I don't mean bad in a good 80s trash-way bad, I mean bad as in "not funny, you try too hard"-way. The infamous Schwarzenegger, Stallone and Willis Scene was painful and awkward. This has got to be one of the worst cameos I've ever seen and just proves what's wrong with this movie. If you can't come up with a more funny or clever way to bring up those three action giants on one screen (even if it's only for a couple of minutes) then you lack some talent or are just lazy. The whole movie feels like they knew exactly, that everybody will be amazed about the cast that they didn't have to put their heart in this. The unused potential of this flick is ridiculous.
Of course though the movie is entertaining and I can't hate too much on a movie, that blows up so much stuff and shows people getting ripped apart. But the fact remains, that this ain't in no way as good as it wanted to be, the same way as Rambo IV was in no way as good as it's predecessors.