Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Review: The Expendables

The Expandables is about Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) leading the "Expendables", a band of highly skilled mercenaries who does nasty jobs for huge amount of money.

the expendables movie poster

The group includes knife enthusiast Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), martial arts expert Yin Yang (Jet Li), heavy weapons specialist Hale Caesar, demolitionist Toll Road and loose-cannon sniper Gunner Jensen.

the expendables casts

When the group is commissioned by the mysterious Mr. Church to assassinate the merciless dictator of a small South American island, Barney and Lee head to the remote locale to scout out their opposition.

the expendables team

There on the island, they meet with local rebel Sandra and discover the true nature of the conflict engulfing the city. When they escape the island and Sandra stays behind, Ross must choose to either walk away and save his own life - or attempt a suicidal rescue mission that might just save his soul.

the expendables barney and sandra

And eventually, Ross went back to the island to settle the job and most importantly to save Sandra - the woman he fell in love almost immediately.

The storyline ends, as predicted, with The Expendables team accomplishing the job with massive explosions and shootings. Pretty much nothing to be understood since it's an all action movie with lots of stunts and actions.

For this movie, Sylvester Stallone's idea of gathering all the action-based actors isn't really successful. It's more like dumping all the well-known actors hoping that every single fans of each actors will watch the movie. Bet many would be disappointed.

Anyway, the plot is pretty much - Shoot, talk, talk, man falls in love, man saves woman, boom, Boom, BOOM, BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

Noobie Rating: 5/10 (Just okay)

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