Action action action!!!

Rating: 6/10 (30 August 2010)

The cast is mind blowing, it's a collection of most well known action heroes and some villains. Like a high school reunion. I was really excited to see this one, it couldn't possibly be bad, could it? To tell you the truth, it's probably impossible not to enjoy this movie, still, considering the flaws, I find the current rating 7.4 too generous.
It seems The expendables is like a meal consisting of 10% food and 90% spices. The "action heroes" are strong spices, that usually don't mix well together, some fade in light of the others. Jet Li was virtually invisible, despite the screen time and seemed weak.
Some of the roles of the characters are really difficult to understand. The general's for instance. It's almost as if the whole script was made of action and THEN, they put in some reasons why someone shoots someone, it didn't really matter if it makes sense because, boom, boom, whoa, different scene, boom, you still follow? It seemed too obvious that some action scenes were sped up, played faster... very old school, very obvious.
It's entertaining, so go see it. But don't think while you're watching.