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.

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.

"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.com

Edited by: Maxx McInerney

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[PhoenixBird1983]

The Expandables sucked ass... It was an 80s style movie, you know, with shootings, car chase and big explosions and all B-movies actors in one plot.

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