Testosterone Fest

Rating: 6/10 (3 January 2011)

It is a testosterone bonanza in Sylvester Stallone's new movie The Expendables. In this star studded cast we follow Stallone's character Barney Ross and his band of mercenaries through a bullet riddled, fist flying, explosion packed ride.
The story is of a small island is being over-run by a corrupt military and a rouge CIA agent looking to use the islanders as drug producing free labor. Coming to their rescue with rippling muscles and tons of fire power are Sylvester Stallone, Jet Li, Jason Stathom, Dolf Lundgren (yes, Drago from Rocky IV) and others.
There are surprise appearances in this movie that gives homage to just about every movie bad-ass hero there is. There were so many action heroes that I was expecting to see Jean-Claude Van Damme or Steven Seagal come around a corner and deliver a line at any moment.
The fight scenes were choreographed well with plenty of winces and "damn"s from the audience. The hand to hand combat in scenes featuring Jet and Jason were beautiful. With Jason's smoothness and Jet's acrobatics it was like watching two accomplished dancers. But don't get me wrong, there was plenty of brute force in the hard hitting, body slamming scenes with Sly, Dolf and Steve Austin. Round all of that out with explosions galore and more bullets than you count and you've got yourself an end of the summer blockbuster.
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