The Expendable

Rating: 4/10 (7 November 2010)

I expected better of this reunion film of action stars. Especially the little me inside of me who fantasized of this 18 years ago. I didn't expect a deep story with unforeseen plot twists and dialogs that really makes you think, with a film like this you want to see bigger than big explosions and blood, bullets and limbs flying all over the place. And that's what you certainly get with this one. But that doesn't mean all else can be totally neglected. I mean, my little brother who's 8 could have wrote this if he could write. The story is far from interesting, the characters are as shallow as shallow can be, the script together with the dialogs make eyebrows raise and elbows shrug and the acting overall is awful at times. Most of them still really try hard to get something out of their part, like Ludgren, but fail because of bad script writing, with on the other hand people who shouldn't have gotten so many lines in the first place, like Jet Li. And then there is Stallone himself, the one looking like Michael Jackson on steroids. The guy is such a character of himself now, it's ridicules. It even made me laugh on occasion. And in the end he is to blame for all this. No,this was not the movie i dreamt about when i was young, for most part that is. Schwarzenegger and Willis couldn't even give more than just cameos and Jean Claude van Damme wasn't even in it at all (which was his own fault) so in the end this was a big fail for me. In other words, keep Mr. Stallone far away from pen and paper.