Wednesday, January 10, 2018
The Expendables (2010)
THE EXPENDABLES (2010) ¢ ¢
D: Sylvester Stallone
Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li,
Dolph Lundgren, Giselle ItiƩ, Mickey Rourke,
Eric Roberts, Randy Couture, Steve Austin,
Terry Crews, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger
Geriatric commandos postpone their annual Medicare wellness visits to go to a Caribbean island and slaughter bad guys. Stallone's lumbering script doesn't really go anywhere, except as an excuse for an ancient-action-star reunion, but he does blow stuff up good. Mickey Rourke gets the movie's best scene, a soliloquy about a long ago mission in which he failed to save a woman's life. It's only marginally coherent, but that still puts it slightly ahead of the rest of the picture.