Bad-ass old school action one of the best action movies my favorite Stallone flick

Rating: 10/10 (31 October 2019)

The best Stallone action film old school action rated - R bloody with explosions, great soundtracks and old school action heroes. Sylvester Stallone brings old school action heroes together: Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Eric Roberts, Steve Austin, Charisma Carpenter, Gary Daniels, Randy Couture, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger. The first in The Expendables trilogy is the best one and it is my favorite action old school flick of old action heroes. I love this film to death, one of the best Stallone action flicks out there. Sly directed and wrote a script for the movie and it is original, it succeeded in many levels of action/ stunts, models puppetry, lots of automatic and explosive weapons they are used well.
The Expendables is a hard hitting action/thriller about a group of mercenaries hierd to inflitrate a South American country and overthrow ruthles dictator. Once the mission begins, the men realize things aren't quite as they appear, finding them selfs caught in a dangerous web if decet and betreyal. With their mission threated and an innocent life in danger the men struggle with an even tougher challenge one that treatens to destroy this band of brothers.
The action scenes are well done, it has tones of action practical effects. I don't agree the action scenes are digitaly filmed I do not see that way, they are great. Stallone did all his stunts by him self. The fight between Stallone and Steve Austin were practical done. They fight was for real and Stallone really hurt him self. This movie is old school action Sly isn't Rocky and Rambo two characters in one, it is different approach for Sly. Stallone's character wears the seme hat that he did in Demolition Man my personal favorite action film Stallone ever did. I am huge Rocky and Rambo fan, The expendables is a damn good action movie.
This is the second colloboration between Stallone, Eric Roberts and Dolph Lundgren all three men worked together on movies in the 80's and 90's. Eric Roberts did worked with Stallone on The Specialist (1994) before and Dolph Lundgren worked with Stallone on Rocky IV and last year on Creed II (2018). Jason Statham and Jet Li are bad-asses in this movie they fight with Steve Austin. Jet Li fights with Dolph Lundgren. Great martial arts performed great acting, great choreographed. This is my action movie those are my action movies from the 80's and 90's I love. This movie isn't 80's or 90's is 2010 but for that year it is a straight-foward action movie with reasonable run time that sustains itself and never has a chance to feel dull.
The camera, the photography and choreography is still colerful creative enough and do the work right. Music score is from Brian Tyler he previously worked on Rambo (2008) and now Rambo: Last Blood (2019) music score. Mickey Rourke is in this movie too, but his character has nothing much to do, except been a mentor and teacher to Stallone's character Barney Ross. I love the soundtrack The Boys Are Back in Town by Thin Lizzy. I am still waiting for the fourth The Expendables movie.
I don't know what else can I say that I already said: the mercenaries lead by Barney Ross they go on this mission in South American country in Vilena island. The group find out that the island is lead by the dictator General Garza (David Zayas) and James Munroe (Eric Roberts) an ex CIA agent now a drug dealer. He makes profits in this island and uses General Garza for his own profits. Sandra (Giselle Itié) is actually General's daughter and she is Ross contact. The reason why the group is called The Expendables is because CIA played by Bruce Willis as Mr. Church hires them to kill General Garza but their target is Munroe, because CIA can't kill one of them. So they sent these guys to do their dirty work that is why they are called The Expendables. This group are strand in this island and they decide to finish their job. Gunner Jensen played by Dolph Lundgren goes rouge and he goes after Ross and Yang played by Jet Li. It has great car chase. Li pulls out a Machine Pistol MP-9 and fiers at the pursuers like Stallone did in Cobra (1986) one of my favorite action films of all time. Stallone and Li worked well together, but the chemistry between Statham and Stallone really worked well. I thought they worked well together.
Steve Austin is great as one of the bad guys, he is excellent he is one of my favorite wretlers of all time. Gary Daniels is in this movie as Austin second henchman he is a bad-ass. Great fight with Jet Li, with Statham against Gary Daniels. Excellent fight with Steve Austin and Randy Couture excellent choreographed. I heard that Randy Couture was in army and he is an ex UFC fighter so that is coold to see him in these kinda movies. Jet Li as Yin Yang is awesome, he is a bad-ass I am a huge fan of him. Dolph Lundgren as Gunner Jensen is a bad-ass he is great, goes rouge but he still survives in this movie. The opening scene you have a rescue mission the mercenaries saves those hostages on a ship so that's cool.
The ending has bad-ass kick-ass action, it is fast paced entertaing movie only for action fans. Their was this 90's action movie The Bad Pack (1997) about mercenaries but I did not care about the flick. The expendables is much better action movie. I love this film to death, it is definitely in my top 10 favorite Stallone movies.