The Expendables (2010)

Rating: 7/10 (27 December 2011)

In a year of three groups of manly men getting together and being manly, I must say I'm surprised that this came second to The A Team. It was a wonderful throwback to the 80's, but failed to match any of them in awesomeness. Luckily we get enough testosterone, violence, and bad oneliners to really keep us chuckling. Lundgren was the star for me, the only one really hamming up the 80's ness of it all, with lines such as "INSECT". Only Statham and Stallone get a decent amount of screen time, and too much emphasis is put on their relationships with women. But when it was good it was great (airplane pier explosion scene, Lundgren vs. Li) and when it was bad, it was still fricking entertaining ("Next time I'll deflate all your balls!). It's easy to pick it apart and declare what we wanted it to be, because there was so much pressure to deliver. I'm crossing my fingers for a sequel, which will no doubt focus on the team as a whole.