The Expendables Was Everything It was Supposed To Be

Rating: 9/10 (18 August 2010)

This movie was amazing. If you walked into the theater a serious fan of Sylvester Stallone and old-school tough guy action movies, then you will not be disappointed.
Do I love dramatic movies with stellar acting, heck yes. Was this movie that, nope. Did I love this movie, HECK YES!
The action was intense, and Sly filled the movie with more than enough to satisfy your needs. The weapon scenes were amazing, well thought out, and incorporated very well in the fighting scenes.
Jason Statham's character showed a very sweet blend of martial arts, knife-throwing, and killshot techniques. The martial arts scenes were intense, and actually very realistic. You could see pieces of wrestling and Jiujitsu injected into the choreography, and it looked very clean.
The story was fairly simple, but I wasn't looking for much, just enough to tie in all the action stars with their battle scenes, and it did just that.
They're a mercenary team hired to take out a corrupt dictator and the high dollared drug lords he's working with. Tough guys clash together, and we get a badass movie like Expendables to show for it.
Seriously, if you've always been a fan of Arnold and Sly, if you enjoyed Cobra, Rambo, Predator, and anything else AMAZING, you'll love this movie.
But if you're some uptight critic who likes to lie and says he LOVED the old action movies while hating the new ones, then yeah, you won't like this one either.