Watchable

Rating: 8/10 (13 August 2010)

The Expendables is a perfect example of the popcorn action movie. The action is over-the-top, loud, proud and highly entertaining. The action scenes are well shot and they move at a nice pace. The dialog is what you would expect from a mainstream action movie--there is plenty of dialog to give life to the characters while also allowing comedic comments that add to the flavor of the film. The dialog also helps to establish the friendship between the characters. Everyone does a nice job in the film: Stallone and Statham are very good as the two main characters, Austin is menacing enough as the heavy, Eric Roberts always play the bad guy to a tee, Lundgren is better than expected-as is Rourke, and the rest of the cast flesh out a nicely written movie. This is a fun action film worth watching---the popcorn movie of this summer season.