Expendables Review... in short Really Bad

Rating: 1/10 (4 September 2010)

Can you remember any of the characters names or even the plot itself. This is what I felt right after seeing this little gem of a movie. Now lets get things straight, I was really looking forward to seeing this film. A movie with the greatest action stars from the last century was sure to be a bloodbath with unforgettable lines that I would be quoting till I was 70. Unfortunately, this was not the case.
Even from the opening scene, the movie felt like a B grade thriller with horrific camera angles and cut up action scenes. I really don't need to see 6 different angles when someone is punched. Stallone clearly needs some help when it comes to directing. Every dialog shot was so zoomed in, that you had no idea where they were, or for that matter what was going on. Almost every shot only showed a characters eyebrow to their chin in frame while they recited there so-called lines. Its hard to believe this movie was so disappointing. I really enjoyed Rambo and don't understand how this movie went so awry.
But of all the problems with The Expendables, the biggest problem was the pace of the movie. This movie moved so fast, just one setting after another in a matter of seconds. I would say the longest scene in the movie ran for 5 minutes, than BAM back in South America or some random location. I have never scene such terrible editing, if you can call it that. It was just bunch of scenes smashed together and deeming it a movie. Im sorry Stallone, but you really let me down on this one.
Overall Rating = F-

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