Plot Summary: (It is kinda superfluous, but, I digress anyways... )
Bruce Willis reunites the old team for what should be a 'walk in the park' sorta job, but when one of the boys is murdered, their quest for revenge places them deep in - yep, you guessed it - very bad guy territory. Sly, Arnie, Bruce, Chuck, Dolph and others return for another paycheck, shooting, yelling, blowing up, wounding, well practically annihilating everything before them. This is a good thing.
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As you can read from the accompanying picture with this review, when you have so much mega-wattage star-power in your films lineup, you can be assured of a certain amount of interest before you actually see it. Sometimes, a stellar cast is all you need. Any semblance of a plot would obscure this films true intent - to provide as much onscreen carnage for the running time!
Within the first 15 minutes of this movie, my friends & I were giggling like very naughty school boys, completely & utterly amused at how ridiculously entertaining this sequel was. To say Expendables 2 is over the top is an understatement - and a half. Totally absurd from whoa to go, this is a train you just want to keen on riding. We gave up on counting bullets and the body count after 5 minutes! My one wish for part three (Trust me, at this time of writing, its already made nearly 240 Million. It has made its money back. Probably already written into a few key players contracts about coming back for a 3rd time around) is that they bring back one of the key guys who was instrumental in Arnold Schwarzenegger's success in the eighties, Steven E De Souza. This guy wrote many of the iconic lines from the hit movies of that period. I'm thinking of gems like "Let off some steam Bennett!" "Yippee Ki-Aye, MuthaF@%$#r!" "You bastard! Drop dead! I don't do requests" "What happened to Buzzsaw?" [after Richards cut Buzzsaw in half with a chain saw] "He had to split" etc etc.
With Movies like this, really there is no point to a critical evaluation of its relative merit - or lack thereof. All depends on how you view these kind of specific types of films. Its not intended to be a genre defining classic is it? Expendables 2 aims squarely in one direction. Let me entertain you!
In the words of my good friend Johnny Jags... "S*%H GOES BOOM!"
Sometimes, that's all you want from a film :)
J for... Job
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