The Vidiot Reviews...

Rating: 6/10 (26 November 2010)

The Expendables
The reason there are no senior citizen mercenaries is because when they bite the pin from the grenade, they pull out their dentures instead.
Fortunately, the senile action stars and newbie bad-asses in this movie don't need bifocal scopes on their guns.
When Barney (Sylvester Stallone), the head of a crew of contract killers, accepts a mission to overthrow a dictator, he assembles his team (Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren) and embarks on a simple jobor so he thinks.
Propped up by an ex-CIA agent (Eric Roberts) and his muscle (Steve Austin), the foreign despot proves more problematic for Barney and his boys.
With cameos from Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis and Mickey Rourke, The Expendables is a throwback to the glory days of action movies – that, unfortunately, includes the acting and dialogue. Thankfully, the action is gratuitous.
As for the best way to kill a dictator: poison their military fatigues. (Yellow Light)