Every once in a while we see a movie which has a huge all-star cast, in 2002 there was 'Catch Me if You Can' which was directed by Spielberg , and stared Decaprio, and Hanks, this year we had 'Grown Ups' a comedy that had the classic Saturday Night Live cast, starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, and Chris Rock, another movie this year had a huge cast, which was 'Clash of the Titans' which starred Sam Worthington, Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton, and Liam Nelson, but none of the all-star casted movie had as big of a cast as 'The Expendables', which brought together Sylvester Stallone from the Rocky Movies, Jason Statham from the Crank and Transporter movies, Jet Li from The Forbidden Kingdome and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Mickey Rourke from Sin City and Iron Man 2, Terry Crews from Get Smart and Terminator Salvation, Arnold Shwartzenager from the Terminator movies, and Bruce Willis from the Die Hard movies, but now, they all came together to form 'the Expendables' a movie that could easily be defined as one of the best movies of the year.
The Expendables is a pure action movie about a group of mercenaries that get paid allot of money to kill a Mexican dictator, but in Mexico, Stallone's character 'Barny Ross' meets a Mexican rebel and falls in love with her, so Ross and his group have to go save her, the interesting thing about the story is that there are two storylines that end up having the same climax, which was one of the most appreciated things in the movie.
As I mentioned, the Expendables is a pure action movie, meaning that by easily seeing the trailer or reading the plot summery, the viewer can easily know that this movie is packed with action, speaking of the action, it did not disappoint, there where allot of mind blowing action scenes that where all unique in their own way, each action scene gave us something new, something that made it better than the last, but I have to admit, my favorite action scene was one near the end, the movie's climax, that scene was probably one of the most entertaining action scenes I've seen in movie history.
As for the cast, each member did an excellent job in the movie, which gave excellent character development, and it made the characters allot funner to watch, although I must admit, I was disappointed with the little screen time that Schwarzenegger, Willis, and Rourke had, that lead to weak character development for Willis' and Schwarzenegger's characters, and mild character development for Rourke's character.
The Expendables is generally one of the best action movies to come out, the story was strong, the acting was excellent, and the action scenes where incredible, I think the Expendables could have been a perfect movie if it wasn't for the character development issues, but even with this issue, the Expendables is still one of the best action movies I've ever seen, so with my closing comments I have to say: well done Stallone, for bringing some of the best action movie stars together to make one of the best action movies of all-time
*Movie Rating:-
-Acting(out of 6)= 6
-Story(out of 8)= 7
-Plot(out of 8)= 8
-Actions(out of 6)= 6
-Effects(out of 4)= 4
-Character Developement(out of 8)= 5
*Overall Rating(out of 40)= 36
5 Stars
*Rating System:
0- 7= 0 Stars
8- 14= 1 Star
15- 21= 2 Stars
22- 30= 3 Stars
31- 35= 4 Stars
36- 40= 5 Stars
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