The Expendables
Sylvester Stallone
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Plot Summary
Sylvester Stallone stars as Barney Ross, leader of The Expendables, a tight knit team of skilled combat vets turned mercenaries. Hired by a powerful covert operator, the team jets off to a small South American country to overthrow a ruthless dictator. Once there, they find themselves caught in a deadly web of deceit and betrayal. Using every weapon at their disposal, they set out to save the innocent and punish the guilty in this blistering action-packed thriller.
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Movie Reviews from Rotten Tomatoes
TOMATOMETER
40%- Reviews Counted: 191
- Fresh: 77
- Rotten: 114
- Average Rating: 5.2/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: As a whole, the movie, whose title dimly evokes "They Were Expendable," a 1945 John Ford combat picture starring John Wayne and Robert Montgomery, might more aptly be described as Bad Kurosawa, Bad Peckinpah or Bad Leone.
Rotten: It's not the age of the actors that makes The Expendables expendable. It's the stale storytelling.
Rotten: Rather than reviving the actors' 80s heyday, The Expendables only demonstrates how much action films have changed in recent years.
Rotten: The brain-dead male equivalent of Sex and the City 2.
Customer Reviews
Pure action and testosterone
Ok, if you are going to see this for the story thinking something oscar caliber for storytelling and writing, then you're seeing the wrong movie. If you want some incredible action by the best in the business and plenty of action hero fan service with a heaping helping of explicit violence, then The Expendables is for you. Heck it's worth a rent simply due to having Sly, Arnie and Bruno on screen at the same time.
Simply put, that's the bottom line.
Suckiness at it's finest!
the script sucked, the dialogue sucked, the acting sucked, the plot sucked AND is cheesy nonsense, testosterone laden, macho, chauvinistic and sexist. AND..... I loved it. Just what i needed. Brain dead fun. If you have zero expectations then you will probably have as much fun as i did watching this train wreck unfold. LONG LIVE Stallone. LONG LIVE Lungren. LONG LIVE Li. LONG LIVE Stratham.
Bad @SS movie
Definitely worth watching. Don't just take the bad reviews words for it. If you're not sure it's at least definitely worth renting first. Personally, I saw it in the movies and I plan on purchasing the day that it comes out to watch again & share with friends and father. Great movie that brings you back. Love the actor combinations.
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