The Expendables (2010)

The greatest movie ever made..!

Please don't spend money on this.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Before the series became a washed-out, PG-13 parody of itself, it was actually a legitimate attempt to revive both the bullet-slinging, one-lining, squib-spurting 80s action movies of yesteryear and the careers of the ageing actors who starred in them. But this somewhat narcissistic exploit actually missed the point of the pictures it was trying to recapture and, while its intentions may have been somewhat pure and only motivated monetarily by a majority fraction instead of a whole one, this means that it fails in its mission to take action flicks back to their 'glory days' despite the fact that much lead is slung and many Stallone one-liners are slurred, though the blood-packs are entirely replaced with their digital equivalents - and their non-convincing digital equivalents at that. 'The Expendables (2010)' ends up a rather dull slog through cliché after cliché, trope after trope and, perhaps less often than you'd like or even expect, shoot-out after shoot-out but avoids the fun that comes with even the 'worst' of the genre without having the courtesy to being self-aware about it. Ultimately, it isn't an enjoyable experience even though it is technically competent, conceptually admirable and, in essence, watchable. 5/10

Nowadays almost all filmmakers believe they can only make a good movie by adding loads of special effects and lots of huge explosions

Written directed and he wrote by Sylvester Stallone brings all his own buddies from the 80's and the new crop of kick ass actors like Jason Statham. as Stallone is playing 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 with their one liners to a small South American island country to overthrow a ruthless dictator . Once they get there the find themselves caught in a deadly web of deceit and betrayal . Using all the weapons at their disposal with a sea plane cum gunship which is a hoot, they set out to save the innocent and punish the guilty in this blistering action packed thriller with all the stars getting time to shine. its a blast from the past 80 style . 8 out of ten and the running time is 1hr36 mins , enjoy on dvd or blu ray

I read a lot of bad reviews unfortunately these people are right on the money. You don't have to be a film geek to see how bad this movie is. I honestly miss the old action movies where there is an actual build up to the action so that the action feels intense. The film makers of today need to realize that less is more. No good one liners. They really need to expand on the characters. Jet li was a great action star and they just made him look like a bitch in this movie. I remember when Steve Austin was great in Predator in this movie he couldn't have been more generic. And the action ...geeez I literally fast forwarded the last sequence because it was so boring. Arnold just felt and looked like a wrinkly puppet who's appearance really had no significance at all in the movie. At the end turns out Gunner was alive? and they were all just getting along splendidly like he didn't try to kill them or betray them? Wow.