Far From Being An Explosive Action Movie

Rating: 8/10 (26 December 2014)

The Expendable is an ensemble action film that stars Sylvester Stallone together with Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Terry Crews, Steve Austin,Bruce Willis and Mickey Rourke. The movie is about a group of elite mercenaries that are on a mission to overthrow a Latin American dictator that they later discover to be a mere puppet of an ex-CIA officer.Stallone co-wrote and directed it.
The Expendables is a group of elite mercenaries from New Orleans.The team consists of its leader Barney Ross together with blades specialist Lee Christmas, martial artist Yin Yang, Gunner Jensen, weapons specialist Hale Caesar, and demolitions expert Toll Road. A shadowy "Mr Church" approach them to overthrow the tyrannical South American dictator General Gaza and restore order to the troubled island country of Vilena.It isn't long before it was known the real target happens to be a former CIA officer,James Monroe.This makes the mission substantially more difficult than expected.
The film was advertised as a throwback to action movies of the 80's and 90's.The actions scenes were definitely huge and excessively violent.No question that action film lovers will definitely enjoy and will be enormously entertained watching this movie.Too bad that despite the talent involved,the film came out to be just ordinary for there is nothing really new or groundbreaking.Besides,the only achievement it managed to get is to have great action stars get assembled in one big film.