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Rating: 7.5 stars

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All movies seen on 09/11/2022

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The Expendables (2010)

Directed by Sylvester Stallone

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Overview

Barney Ross leads a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, a martial arts expert Yin Yang, heavy weapons specialist Hale Caesar, demolitionist Toll Road, and a loose-cannon sniper Gunner Jensen. When the group is commissioned by the mysterious Mr. Church to assassinate the dictator of a small South American island, Barney and Lee visit the remote locale to scout out their opposition and discover the true nature of the conflict engulfing the city.

Rated R | Length 103 minutes

Actors

Sylvester Stallone | Jason Statham | Jet Li | Dolph Lundgren | Eric Roberts | Randy Couture | Steve Austin | David Zayas | Giselle Itié | Charisma Carpenter | Gary Daniels | Terry Crews | Mickey Rourke | Hank Amos | Amin Joseph | Senyo Amoaku | Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira | Antônio Rogério Nogueira | Sassa Nacimento | R.A. Rondell | Tze Yep | Precious Jenkins | Ronn Surels | Lauren Jones | Prazeres Barbosa | Jose L. Vasquez | Daniel Arrias | Antonio Gullo | Javier Lambert | Tatsu Carvalho | Marcio Rosario | Paulo Bastos | John Baran | Joshua Cardenez | Rod Carvalho | Gino Galento | Gideon Hodge | Victor Eli Hugo | James Landry Hébert | Topher Jones | Cody Juneau | Shadoe Knight | Everton Lawrence | Ace LeBleu | Edgar Leza | David Joseph Martinez | Aaron Saxton | Bruce Willis | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Victor Tijerino

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

Long overdue revisit that checks the boxes for two current projects: Jet Li and Bruno! Forgot that Willis was in this one (thought he and Schwarzenegger showed in the second film) but he’s fun in those 5 minutes here. For some reason I was under the impression that I wasn’t super crazy about this when I saw in theater which is probably why I haven’t revisited until now. I was wrong; I dug it then and this movie is a blast. So many faces to chew scenery and blow things up.

Jet Li is so good and I wish he had gotten more screentime. Love that he’s top billed after Stallone and Statham but he really should’ve gone with them on the first visit to the island. The scene between Li and Stallone is really nice just wish we got more of that.

I don’t like how the close action is filmed or edited but I like Stahelski‘s action direction (Corey Yuen did Li’s choreo). This is such a throwback to old Cannon flicks with lots of explosions so of course I love it.

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