Exactly what it's advertised to be

Rating: 7/10 (24 August 2010)

Yep. Whenever I come across a bad genre movie, fanboys shout out "what did you expect?". Well, Expendables is a *GOOD* genre movie, and if anyone has anything bad to say about it, he's definitely in the wrong crowd. This IS supposed to be loud, dumb fun. A machismo over-the-top hailback to the 80s: nil plot, full-on action. Testosterone calls all the shots while female characters exist only as excuses for "men of action" to nix cardboard-cutout baddies in three-digit numbers. Bad guys miss, good guys walk heads up high and never-ending clips in their guns and mow them down. Dialogue exists not to flesh out characters, but to produce one-liners. Yes, I had fun watching this. Solid stuff which provides exactly what it promises. The old school action stars missing this one out (mainly Kurt Russell, Wesley Snipes, Steven Seagal and Van Damme) deserve a kick in the butt for doing so. But I still hope to see them in Expendables II. Especially Russell (c'mon, "Tango and Cash", mother fo!).