Like a stick of dynamite up a sparkly vampire-ass this movie delivered something people had been itching to see. That’s right, “The Expendables” came to town and mowed down down everything in its path.
Shit, I left the oven on!
It had explosions, martial arts, guns, bigger guns, guns so big people explode when they look at them. Terry Crews has one of the best moments in the movie later on involving him and a bug gun. To explain would be to spoil it. This movie was so manly, if shown in a double feature with a chick flick the characters would jump into that movie and skull-f**k the happy couple. That’s an image i’d like to dwell on for a second.
Beret's are back!
Anyone unfamiliar with the movie here it is in a nutshell. First you get big stars; Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Steve Austin, Dolph Lundgren. Then add an 80′s plot; mercernaries take on a banana republic. Use modern special effects to pump up the explosions and away we go.
Stallone writes and directes, he actually does a fair job with the plot. He trys to go beyond the usual cliches, but uses them when they have the opportunity to make things a little more fun. Only downsides might be that some lines get kinda mumbled. The chronology also seems a little uneven and jumpy but that’s nitpicking because you get what you came for. Unabated man-fest, *cough.* The straight kind.
One final thing, for me Lundgren kinda steals the show. Not sure why, he just makes quite the impact.
