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The Expendables 2, Movie

The Expendables 2 2012

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Sylvester Stallone's action extravaganza redux with a platinum gold, muscle-clad cast (deep breath): Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Norris, Van Damme, Willis, Li, Statham, Hemsworth, Crews and Lundgren. More

Mr. Church (Willis) reunites the Expendables to take on a seemingly simple job. The task looks like an easy paycheck for Barney (Stallone) and his crack team of heavies. But when things go wrong and one of their own is viciously killed, it becomes personal and the mercs-for-hire set off on a bullet-ridden, explosion-heavy quest for revenge. Hide

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189 votes / 58 comments The Talk

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    • skyball22

      omg amazing i loved the first one...cant wait!!!!!!!!!!

    • Chip

      Got Chuck Norris in it which increases the awesome factor tenfold!

    • Red

      Oh sh*t Chuck Norris! Chuck Norris doesn't get wet, water gets Chuck Norrised.

    • Esta*

      CHUCK NORRIS!!!

    • Vernon-Wainohu

      Had to reboot my PC, caused it just crashed from too much awesomeness overload!!! LMAO

    • Daniel

      Hope its better than the first one!

    • roddy21

      only reason y i wanna see this cos of chuck norris screw the other guys chuck norris rules he is god

    • Let off some

      Yeah boooooyyy!

    • reetz

      FRICKEN MEAN OR WHAT, NO JUST FRICKEN MEAN....:)

    • gordon chumway

      BAAAM!

    • Matt

      Whats with Hollywood and sequals? pretty big names tho. COME ON CHUCK, ARNIE! YOU CAN HELP MAKE THIS NOT SUCK!

    • Ken Burns

      Maybe. Arnie is a bit of a knob

    • Zac

      Bahaha oh god I'm so in

    • Sam Swan

      Bwah hahahaha - going to be awful, just like the first one, BUT good awful!

    • Clabe

      Slys face looks like it's melting

    • Billy

      When chuck norris does push ups, he doen't push himself up, he pushes the earth down!

    • Dead Return?

      You have to be kidding right? Arnold got kick out from US Gob and now makes movies to support his "undercover" kiddos?

    • wat

      arnie is still acting???

    • morgana1972

      Out with the old & in with the new? Bring on Modern Wafare The Movie!!!

    • RexH

      They left out Stephen Seagal and Jackie Chan. Norris is 71 for god'ssake

    • Conan

      Let off some steam Bennet....

    • redrooster

      He said He'll be back and he is you just gotta love Arnie...oh yeah bring it on

    • matrix

      [after killing a man in the plane] Don't disturb my friend, he's dead tired.

    • Max Trader

      Arnie rippping off a cgi door rofl!

    • Raul

      These films are rrridiculous. I'll still se it.

    • Berta

      it should be called the "has beens"

    • Shazzaom

      This is just too many kinds of awesome!

    • anna

      yayyah..allstars!!

    • Patrick

      Cool, must see this...

    • sam

      Classic Chuck comment Billy. Can't wait - its gotta be LOUD!!!

    • Matt

      Sly makes the world's best bad movies.

    • STIME

      Can't wait to see Chuck back in a action

    • reetz

      Oh heck yeah, mean mf's on here....a deff

    • Jared

      Has potential to be the best thing ever, people might die from it being too awesome.

    • clararar

      After the trainwreck of #1 I'm not sure I could stomach another one of these...

    • CrazyFlipper

      Probably wait for this one to come out on DVD. Enjoyed the first one nevertheless.

    • Dan

      Hopefully its better than the last one which was shyt

    • Shaun

      If there a chance I could die from watching it I don't want to see this movie. :P

    • Carlos

      If it bleeds we can kill it!

    • Cmelly sunt

      Get 80% of the best old school action heroes and they produce this!! should have stopped at #1 stallone.

    • DJKwa

      Didn't particularly like the 1st one but that doesn't detract from the fact the trailers look good.

    • emma8

      arnold schwarzeneger is in it!!!oisomee

    • Weelee

      Chuck Norris will roundhouse kick everybody who's not watching the movie

    • redboarder

      oh my god oh my god this looks better than the first one.. can't wait

    • odubb

      unfair chuck norris is in this game over

    • angela dust

      cant wait to see this film!!! yeyah!!! omg a hemsworth is in it...yusss!!!

    • tim

      this movie looks mean cant wait to watch you

    • Angloaussiekiwi

      I'm going, I'm going.

    • Greer

      Most awesome cast ever!

    • aaron r wills

      Hemsworth and Couture not important enough to even make the poster?

    • care

      care

    • Firefly

      Homage my friends homage.

    • oh boy yes

      Mmmm

    • BornInCaptivity

      lucky I love lots of cheese on my pizza

    • tim

      its a gd move u got 2 see it its cool

    • Caleb

      NEED THE MOVIE TIMES FOR Taranaki

    • Joshua

      Chucky o pal ! looking forward to this

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Flicks.co.nz Review

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  • Gerd

    One from our club (always changing) has to go to every new release for evaluation, so unfortunately I could not avoid this stupid crap.

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Aaron Yap Flicks Writer

If The Expendables 2 is marginally better than its predecessor it’s only by virtue of having slightly more coherent action sequences (a wide shot of Jet Li fighting that lasts longer than 5 seconds!). It’s definitely not because this bone-headed, nostalgia-soaked indulgence for ‘80s action has-beens is actually any good at all. More

As per #1, the film’s humour aims extremely low, full of prosaically wise-cracking dialogue and worst still, post-modern eye-winkery that lets its stars cringingly regurgitate classic action-movie quips (“Your ass is terminated!”, “Yippie-kai-yay!”). Slip in a few jokes about old age, and you have some seriously awful comedy to complement its smorgasbord of casually brutal, high-body count slaughter.

Okay, so the plot is as generic, sketchy, by-the-numbers as they come - fine - but it’s a shame that The Expendables 2 does a glaring disservice to the bulging ensemble by shoddily utilising them. Liam Hemsworth’s rookie hot-shot sniper is short-lived and the only character worth any emotional value, Van Damme’s baddie gets in a grand total of two flying kicks against Stallone, and Chuck Norris is reduced to the equivalent of a running gag from a Zucker Brothers spoof.

New Jet Li/Asian-component fill-in Nan Yu is a wooden and dull femme butt-kicker, while Willis and Schwarzenegger give career-worst performances. Everyone deserves better, but the sad thing is they’re obviously content with simply hi-fiving and bro-fisting each other to the bloody end. Give me Last Action Hero any day over this slop. Hide

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  • will

    Totally agree

  • non-plastic

    Well reviewed! 10/10 for enthusiasm also.

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Expend-ed2

RealityCheck Flicks Superstar (?)

Expendables2
Crap-tasticly awesome!! It explodes in your mind like an old-comedy-claymore-mine, with the dry wit that even a blind man can see coming and acting that leaves you almost breathless, if you were out of breath already. The beginning is very 'A-Team' and hint of 'McGyver' type machinery, but overall, its all fighting (guns, knives & fists) with some great oneliners, and fantasticly gotta be the biggest line-up of action stars in one film, ever! Typical story, bad guy "Find him, trap him, kill him" "You owe me" "We're even" are all in here,its perfect craptastic.
Genre : Action, adventure, comedy
3/5 : This film is taking the mickey out of itself even, & does it quitte well. Its not pop-corn, its more pop-machine-corn. I personally loved it, lol.

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  • Dann0

    Yeah - it sure was crap. But fun. In a crap way! So agreed 100%

  • Gally51

    Shame - it was ok - but coulda been so much betta if theyd gone all out batsh*t crazy %3A)

  • non-plastic

    Wordy, well researched and honest - a good review!

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Expensive-Balls

adamatdramatrain Flicks Superstar (?)

It would be churlish to go see a movie titled 'Expendables 2' and expect anything other than something big, dumb and full of old-school macho fun. The second in Sylvester Stallone's 'Rambo' meets 'The Dirty Dozen' trilogy is a throwback to the Eighties action cinema of Ronald Reagan era USA, when stars like Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Willis ruled the box-office and the likes of Jean-Claude Van Damme and Chuck Norris were big hitters on VHS rentals.

Stallone directed the first movie, but this time around he's hired Simon 'Con Air' West to call the shots, so the action is in the capable hands of a by-the-book Hollywood action-flick director, who recently remade the Charles Bronson movie 'The Mechanic' as a dull, but glossy, formulaic actioner, starring Jason Statham. Though solid, the direction offers nothing much to write about, although some of the plane scenes are so reminiscent of 'Con Air' that I found myself wondering if West wasn't using outtakes... Stallone's script on the other hand offers lots to write about. And none of it good. Suffice it to say that the plot's generic - good guys must save the day by beating, stabbing, shooting and blowing-up bad guys - and the jokes are woefully unfunny.

That said though, this is a film that knows what it is. All the jokes are about the cast. For example, for film nerds like me, it raises a chuckle of recognition when Stallone says of Dolph Lundgren's character, Gunner, that he's "A maniac with brains." Why the knowing smile? Only because I'm geek enough to know that Lundgren is a graduate in chemistry from Washington State University, chemical engineering from Stockholm's Royal Institute of Technology and the University of Sydney. When Gunner meets Chuck Norris and says "They call you The Wolf?" Chuck replies "I've been called that." He certainly has - most famously (in film geekland) as 'Lone Wolf McQuade' way back in 1983. The knowing winks and in-jokes swamp the dialogue, from someone threatening to "terminate" Schwarzenegger (geddit?!) who says "I'll be back" so often, that Willis turns to him at one point and says "No, this time I'll be back." You've been back enough." Heck even Jean Claude Van Damme's lead villain is called "Jean Vilain" - so if that type of brilliant word play is above your comprehension, you might not enjoy this movie as much as the testosterone and steroid-fuelled cast. Everybody's clearly having a ball, and there's a palpable sense of "giving the fans what they want" that culminates in Messrs Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Willis striding through an airport lounge with machine guns a-blazing.

Like I said: it is what it is - big, dumb and full of old-school macho fun. The best scene is one in which the seventy-two year-old Norris tells a Chuck Norris gag that's almost as old as he is. Other than that? Things go boom. People die in boys-own fantasy slo-mo. Blood spurts in video-game style fountains. Guns blaze with comic-book abandon. Knives get thrown. Grenades and painfully wrought one-liners are tossed, and two-hours tick by. As the credits roll, it's hard to remember what on earth you've just watched. But then, to be fair, it is called 'Expendables 2' and not Fellini's 'Satyricon'...

So, if you're so old that you were a young teen in the Eighties that loved the stars in their prime, there's fun to be had here a and if you're a young teen right now who's into this kinda shite? Roll on in - 'Expendables 2' was made just for you.

Two (throwing) stars - one for the "Chuck" and the other for the "Norris" :)

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  • will

    so Why did watch it in the first place

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A movie for the incontinent...

Gerd Flicks Superstar (?)

...to produce the real thing at the bathroom is more intellectual stimulating then to be bombarded (literally) by this mentally retarded s**t.

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Thrown into the Past!

Chaddorama B-Grader (?)

Expendables 2 is a wonderfully over the top homage to the action flicks of the 80s and 90s. If you are a fan of classic Arnie, Stallone, Chuck Norris or Bruce Willis films then you'll enjoy the countless references to their movies; Chuck Norris even makes a Chuck Norris joke. The whole experience is a fun ride, and though the story line is quite plain, you feel good seeing your old favourites back in action! 4/5 stars only because the CGI was obviously CGI, seems they wanted to cut back on extreme stunts. Despite that however, entertainment value wise it gets top marks in my books! Looking forward to The Expendables 3!

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  • non-plastic

    Five big Stars - read my review - it tells it like it is!

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Great movie for those who yearn to be entertained

non-plastic Nobody (?)

One of the best movies out for ages. Obviously not for the elite out there who gauge movies by the quality of the acting - if people line up and pay good money to see people acting in a movie - then they are actors - the other would be actors who do not have many people lining up to see are what we called amateur actors. I laugh at some of the try hard reviews made by those also rans - hey plastics - crawl back into ya cages and let the Gimp sort ya out!

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Press Reviews

Boxoffice Magazine

This over-the-top sequel caters to the lowest common denominator in the best possible way, and it's so fully committed to brainless bombast that it muscles audiences to applaud by sheer force of will. Full review.

Empire (UK)

A huge, bulging disappointment. Full review.

Guardian (UK)

There's some comedy in there, too, intentional – mostly. As a poignant study of the ageing process, it's on a rough par with "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel." For The Expendables 3, they might want to consider enlisting Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson and Judi Dench. Full review.

Hollywood Reporter

Taut, humorous and attractively packaged, the sequel is both fleet footed and engaging enough to captivate audiences with more than just nonstop action. Full review.

Los Angeles Times

What gives Expendables 2 its charm is the film's unabashed nostalgia for the genre's best B-movie moments. Full review.

New York Times

Pleasantly dumb fun if you watch it with the right mind-set. Full review.

Time Out New York

The highlight is a bruising pas de deux between Statham and direct-to-video star Scott Adkins, a sequence that channels yesteryear's testosteronized cinema instead of exhuming it. You can only hope the inevitable third entry will use that as a model. Full review.

Total Film (UK)

"Sometimes it's fun to run with the pack," counsels self-confessed lone wolf Chuck Norris. For the most part, you'd be well advised to choose the opposite direction. Full review.