A Behind the Scenes look at The Expendables

"The Expendables" is the first team--up movie of the summer season to get the merciless mercenary formula right. Directed and written by gun--toting cinema stalwart Sylvester Stallone, this blood--soaked testament to muscle--bound masculinity is as entertaining as it is simplistic. A mishmash of pokerfaced ruffians, Barney Ross (Stallone), Ying Yang (Jet Li) Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) and Toll Road (Randy Couture) make up The Expendables. When Ross' brother Tool (Mickey Rourke) tells the crew about a potential one way ticket of a task, Ross and Christmas decide to do a little recon. Five minutes into this film the snickers and sighs of my fellow movie critics turned promptly to uproarious laughter. In one of the best cameo conversation sequences ever conceived Ross and his arch rival Trench (Arnold Schwarzenegger) have a caustic quip battle like two aliens spitting acid at each other's tough guy casings. Sly and the Governator have it out in a beautifully ironic dialogue while a mysterious man named Mr. Church (Bruce Willis) looks on. Willis steals the limelight with his trademark sarcastic wit and takes this film to heights of hilarity that can be enjoyed by anyone who wasn't in a coma during these three actors' action heydays. Church sets up Ross and his crew with the tall task of dethroning an oppressive dictator (David Zayas) on the fictional island of Vilena. From there it's all out carnage laced with cheesy one--liners and loads of explosions. Is "The Expendables" going to win any Oscars? Don't count on that. Is this film Stallone's answer to a modern--day "Dirty Dozen? Not quite. Is this a movie that will have you digging a sizable hole in your tub of heavily buttered popcorn? You can bet the bank on it. "The Expendables" is a hack--em up action film through and through. Sly and crew blow hordes of gun clad goons to bits in a style that is akin to the latest "Rambo" installment. Those of you with weak stomachs be warned, if you have a rough time handling images of wartime butchery and vivid depictions of torture this film is not for you. For those who are desensitized enough by daily doses of violence on television, in video games and on the silver screen, by all means find a seat, turn your brain to Neanderthal and have a ball. Source - nwitimes.comEdited by: Maxx McInerney

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[spykerman97]

No blue or green screens, AHEM 2:10 I see blue screeens!!!

[XxWoLfxX565]

Julius is secretly working a third job as a special forces shotgunner

[gprswap3]

@spykerman97 HAHA EPIC FAIL :@

[leetyuh]

@redsoxfreak92 Rage against the machine - Fistful of steel ;)

[njegosh1]

"U don't have a green screens, blue screens..." :))))

And that is why i love this movie!!!

[redsoxfreak92]

what is the song from 2:47 to 3:22

[wtfudgewht]

loved this movie

simply exploding.

would love the second. keep at it Sly.