Testosterone celebration...

Rating: 6/10 (22 January 2011)

Brazil was one of the filming locations of The Expendables and after that Stallone did an awful joke about Brazilians at Comic Con which had a very bad repercussion worldwide. Later he apologized for the joke inconvenience but it was too late, people here just did a massive boycott to his new action flick, even me... until now.
Anyway... besides all that press stuff, Stallone proves one more time with The Expendables that he can finally and officially be passing his testosterone belt to the new generation, but he knows how to make old school action movies like no one without being old fashion or out of date.
The movie has all the classic elements that made him the king of bloody punches and explosion in the 80's and is a lot entertaining and also nostalgic see this kind of thing nowadays when action movies have had a lot of changes thru the decades. He's still in shape, get some injuries here and there, but he's tough enough to hold it for the sake of entertainment, as another one said.
He also cannot be the best director or writer in the world but we have to admit that his direction and writing is more effective and superior than most of other action directors that are hitting box office since late 90's. Also it's obvious that this is the realization of a dream and a fun time he always wanted and always talked about joining together most of the old and new Hollywood action icons, a project he had in mind since the 90's but only now he could make it true.
All the tough ones are there, even as guest appearances like Schwarzenegger and Willis (with a few exceptions like Van Dame and Steven Seagal). Also references are there too, mainly of Stallone's classics like 'Rambo'.
You cannot expect anything more than explosions, gun shots, mutilations, real bad ass man fist-fight and bloody+sweat everywhere. Is a movie for the men and made for the male audience with no interesting story, just no remorse fighting and killing.
The movie is a clear intent to be a testosterone celebration like men drinking cheap beer in a nasty bar and there's no way to watch it in a different way.
Forget John Woo's lame American titles, forget Michael Bay's awful direction and all Brukheimer's terrible taste... get a beer and some undercooked meat and have some fun with Stallone once more.