Derivative and predictable

Rating: 4/10 (15 February 2011)

Let's face it, we've seen The Expendable before. Not as one movie, of course, but as a collection of cluttered clichés and a varying mess of monosyllabic montages lifted from countless other totally forgettable movies.
Quite apart from the truly pointless appearances of Messrs Willis and Schwarzenegger, the yawn-inducing dialogue, the utterly bizarre Gunner Jensen plot aside, the jaw-dropping weirdly plastic appearance of Stallone, Lundgren and Rourke respectively, the plot was the first thing to die, having been shot, stabbed, kicked, punched and otherwise slaughtered many times during the previous decades in too many movies to mention.
Seriously, I've seen porn movies with more depth.
So why four out of ten? Watching this movie was marginally more entertaining than SWAT Miami-Dade. That and the sumptuous Giselle Itié pouting her way through the whole movie.