Movie Review: The Expendables (2010)

The Expendables (2010): I thought this was pretty gash, to be honest. On paper, sure, sounds good. Sly Stallone, that fella from Rocky and Rambo. Jason Statham, been in those wacky Crank and Transporter action films. Steve Austin, he once pinned THE ROCK, and he's got some acting chops. And I know what they were going for with this, to hark back to the stomping action films of yesteryear, but once you get past the nostalgia of all these old names together in one film, it's pretty poor. The nostalgia ends very quickly, probably once Bruce Willis and Arnie have been on. The only good action sequence that comes to mind right now was when Jason Statham sat at the very front of a plane (in front of the cockpit) and started shooting at some soldiers. Nothing after that or before that was particularly awesome or memorable, quite the opposite to Machete. The double act stuff between Stallone and Statham is often quite good and Jet Li's ongoing demands for more money were amusing enough but I ended up being fairly bored after the first half an hour. The plot wasn't gripping enough to keep me interesting and the action wasn't absurd enough to compensate for that. Two thumbs down.