I Don't Get Why This Movie Has Such a High Rating! (7.7!!!)

Rating: 5/10 (18 August 2010)

I was very excited about "The Expendables". The movie seemed to be a real heavy action movie, maybe the action movie of the year! And it's not that there isn't much action, but the problem is that, not only the movie but also the action scenes are very bad!! It was supposed to be a outstanding movie, with all those cool actors coming back, all the hype and great action scenes without CGI to show that it's possible to do real action without too much annoying special effects made by computer. The idea was great, the cast very impressive (for this kind of movie), and it could have been a real awesome movie. But it turned out to be a real mess. Some actors don't appear enough, and the ones that do are annoying and very unfunny sometimes (all that story about Statham's girlfriend was silly). The plot it was not supposed to be great, but at least to make some sense and give the movie some reason. And the action is just terrible because the camera just don't let us see almost anything of what's going on! (and the "shaking camera" it is cool, but when used wisely and not all the time!). There's only one real remarkable action scene (one involving a airplane and a "pier"), because the others are not exciting and well made enough. But, to say that there's some good stuff, Mickey Rourke is really great and the scene with Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis it is fun (some jokes are not, but the scene was cool). At least it's a very fast movie. And unfortunately, very disappointing. Maybe Stallonne should have hired a director, because he's not a good one.