The Expendables 2

2012 • 102 minutes

About this movie

The Expendables are back and this time it's personal... Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone), Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), Yin Yang (Jet Li), Gunner Jensen (Dolph Lundgren), Toll Road (Randy Couture) and Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) -- with newest members Billy the Kid (Liam Hemsworth) and Maggie (Yu Nan) aboard -- are reunited when Mr. Church (Bruce Willis) enlists the Expendables to take on a seemingly simple job. The task looks like an easy paycheck for Barney and his band of old-school mercenaries. But when things go wrong and one of their own is viciously killed, the Expendables are compelled to seek revenge in hostile territory where the odds are stacked against them. Hell-bent on payback, the crew cuts a swath of destruction through opposing forces, wreaking havoc and shutting down an unexpected threat in the nick of time — five tons of weapons-grade plutonium, far more than enough to change the balance of power in the world. But that's nothing compared to the justice they serve against the villainous adversary who savagely murdered their brother. That is done the Expendables way....

Ratings and reviews

This film was just as bad as the first. Its pretty bad when acting ability is second fiddle to botox injections. Sure, there were some laughs and plenty of action, but the presence of such geriatric men, trying so hard, trumps any of the good things in this film (Jason Stathum, Terry Crews, Scott Atkins). Also, the score is old bluegrass rock and roll. Semi out of sorts for all film attending generations. Unless you are greater that 50 years old, or you can't find Red Sonia on Netflix, skip this one.

Be prepared to suspend your belief in physics. How does a WWII era unpressurized plane fly around the globe without refueling, fly into Chinese airspace without being shot down and sport hot weapons in today's world is beyond belief. Also, the bad guys can never shoot straight. Get beyond those things and this movie is fun, action packed and chock full of yesterday's super action heros. They pretty much found them all. I would watch it again.

Rented this from Redbox using a free code. What a waste of a free code. Bad usage of catch phrases from the actor's old movies, sadly, it was easy to predict what was going to happen next. The actors looked old and tired, and certainly didn't belong in the movie together. It's sad to see once great actors looking so bad and acting even worse. Save your money.