The Expendables Movie Review 7/10!

There isn't much that can be said about this movie. You get basically exactly what you might expect from this movie. Lots of explosions, lots of one liners, the general moral debate about losing oneself in a mercenary lifestyle, basically this movie includes every cliche from eighties action movies and really thats not a bad thing. This film is an homage to those types of movies. Its not a great movie, thats why I can't really rate it any higher than a 7, and frankly thats a bit of a stretch, BUT its not really trying to be a great movie. Its try to deliver exactly what it delivered. Nostalgia for the old action days and never before seen combinations of some of the greatest aging action stars in existence. The one liners were good, and they had about a 75% hit rate. Jet Li's character in particular was pretty funny. Yes, the plot was fuzzy at best, and yes the Eric Robert's villain made lots of decisions that made absolutely no sense (could be part of the whole 80's action movie homage) but that isn't really why you go to see this movie. If you like 80's testosterone laden action flicks, or if you like some of the major action stars that are in this film then you will love this movie. If you aren't into that then you would like it. There is no middle ground, this isn't the type of movie that will win over new fans, either you love it or you don't. If your have testosterone in your veins go see it, if not then go see Charlie St. Cloud.