The Expendables 2 Review

In 2010, a action movie came out about 30 years too late called The Expendables.The reason i saw that is because while it does star a bunch of up and coming action stars like Jason Stathem,Terry Crews,Jet Li and fighter Randy Coutour,but it also starred many of thye 80's action movie stars like Sylvester Stallone,Dolph Lundgren and Bruce Willis.Many of these actors are in their late 50's and 60's but still manage to make a dumb,but fun action movie,and now we have the sequel,The Expendables 2.

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The story follows Barney Ross(Stallone) and his team Lee Christmas(Stathem),Gunner Jensen(Lundgren), Hale Caesar(Crews) and Toll Road(Coutour) and newcomer to the team Billy the Kid,played by Liam Hemsworth,are forced into doing a mission for secretive CIA agent Mr.Church(Willis) to make up for failing the not doing the previous job in the first movie the way he asked.Church also sends with them another CIA agent named Maggie Chan played by Yu Nan.

While sent to a crashed airplane to find that important piece of data for Church,a terrorist called Jean Vilain(last name pun on the word "villian" obviously) played by Jean-Claude Van Damme steals it from them and kills a team member,for the sake of spoilers,i won't say which.Vilian is also in possession of 5 tons of pure plutonium that can cause alot of trouble depending on who its used on or sold to,and he is forcing villagers to work in the mines.He also has his own little army behind him.So The Expendables decide they have to take revenge.Also appearing in the movie at points is Chuck Norris who mplays Booker,an old friend of the expendables,and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Trench,who is a arch rival of Barney Ross,but occasionally ally.

I don't think this is neccesarily a good movie.It has alot of problems.I thought some of the CGI explosions and blood looked really fake.I didn't mind this,but sometimes it was a little corny with one liners,like with Arnold saying "i'm back" referencing his role in the Terminator films.

The best part of the movie obviously is seeing all these different action stars from over the years together in one movie and all interacting with each other.I thought the action was pretty fun too,epsecailly the last 20-30 minutes.
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I'm glad they gave Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis more screen time and actually some action scenes,because in the first movie they have one scene,which is basically 2 minutes,then they don't show up again.I wish Chuck Norris got more time too,because he's awesome,no questions asked.There's even a joke in the movie about him being bitten by a snake,and after five long painful and unbearable days...the snake died.I thought that was funny referencing all the Chuck Norris Facts.

Overall this is better than the first,but still not great.It's a great idea,but i feel like someone could do this better.But if you just want a 80's action movie,if you still like those,with all the 80's action stars in it,then this is a movie for you.I can't wait to see what action stars will be added in the third installment.i think Nicholas Cage is gonna be in it,which is awesome.I wouldn't mind seeing a movie of all the female action stars in a action movie.

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