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English Movie 'The Expendables' Review
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The Expendables is the best action film of the summer. Of course, compared to such efforts as Salt, Knight and Day, and The A-Team, that might not be saying much. With an armada of '80s machismo at his disposal (with some help from the current crop of big screen bad-asses) and a splatter movie mentality to the violence, the 64-year-old creative hyphenate known as Sylvester Stallone clearly understands his fan base. The ragtag collection of mercenaries he puts together for this satisfying combination of blood, bullets, and balls is epic in talent and testosterone -- and luckily, the vain former superstar recognizes when to step back and let his compatriots take center stage for their own moments of fists and firepower.
We first meet the Expendables while rescuing the crew of a tanker overtaken by Somali pirates. The main group consists of Barney Ross (Stallone), his right hand man and knife-wielder supreme Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), combat specialist Yin Yang (Jet Li), demolitions expert Toll Road (Randy Couture), heavy weapons god Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) and mandatory loose cannon Gunnar Jenson (Dolph Lundgren).
Upon returning to their main hangout -- the tattoo parlor run by ex-Expendable Tool (Mickey Rourke) -- they are offered another highly dangerous job. The dictator of a small island, General Garza (David Zayas) is working with a rogue CIA agent (Eric Roberts) to run drugs into America. Naturally, elements inside the agency want him stopped. Barney's initial reaction is to stay out of such messes. But after meeting up with Garza's estranged daughter (Giselle Itié) things go from professional to personal.
With a cast consisting of (almost) every big name from the heyday of high concept Hollywood stunt spectacles and a love of all things beefy, brawny, and bloody, The Expendables is a truly guilty pleasure -- a gutsy love letter to the undying romance between man and machine gun. It represents a comeback of sorts for the mindless joys inherent in watching things -- including people and their various body parts -- blow up with recklessly entertaining abandon. As he did with Rambo a few years back, Stallone doesn't sugarcoat the carnage. His soldiers for hire wreck gloriously gory vengeance on anyone who dares wander into their commando cross-hairs. As heads disintegrate and limbs leave their respective joints, the movie delivers on every taut, tense sequence of pre-vivisecting exposition.
At its core, The Expendables is an origins story, an attempt by Stallone to do the same thing with this group of grunts as he did for John Rambo and Rocky Balboa. We are introduced to the various characters, their idiosyncrasies and personal crises, and then left with enough lingering questions to warrant a sequel (or even better, an ongoing franchise). Standouts include Statham as the blade-wielding wise guy, Li as an aging martial artist with "little man's syndrome", and a sweaty, swarthy Lundgren as a drug-addled assassin with a questionable sense of loyalty. Even Rourke gets a "lost my soul" monologue that's outstanding.
As they say, however, the hero mythos is only as valid as the villain, and Julia's bro Eric is amazing as the evil bureaucrat hellbent on turning this tiny atoll into his own personal coke-strewn banana republic. He chews the tropical scenery with such finesse that he almost steals the film from the rest of his 'roid raging brethren.
During the fabulous finale that sees Crews literally tearing the movie apart with his sub-nuclear hand bazooka while the rest of the group maneuvers a multitude of bomb blasts, The Expendables finally proves its point. In a system which praises the pathetic excesses of Michael Bay and goes gaga over the simplified shaky-cam approach to action, Stallone knows his genre. He can battle royale with the best of them.
Review by Bill Gibron
Courtesy: www.FilmCritic.com
We first meet the Expendables while rescuing the crew of a tanker overtaken by Somali pirates. The main group consists of Barney Ross (Stallone), his right hand man and knife-wielder supreme Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), combat specialist Yin Yang (Jet Li), demolitions expert Toll Road (Randy Couture), heavy weapons god Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) and mandatory loose cannon Gunnar Jenson (Dolph Lundgren).
Upon returning to their main hangout -- the tattoo parlor run by ex-Expendable Tool (Mickey Rourke) -- they are offered another highly dangerous job. The dictator of a small island, General Garza (David Zayas) is working with a rogue CIA agent (Eric Roberts) to run drugs into America. Naturally, elements inside the agency want him stopped. Barney's initial reaction is to stay out of such messes. But after meeting up with Garza's estranged daughter (Giselle Itié) things go from professional to personal.
With a cast consisting of (almost) every big name from the heyday of high concept Hollywood stunt spectacles and a love of all things beefy, brawny, and bloody, The Expendables is a truly guilty pleasure -- a gutsy love letter to the undying romance between man and machine gun. It represents a comeback of sorts for the mindless joys inherent in watching things -- including people and their various body parts -- blow up with recklessly entertaining abandon. As he did with Rambo a few years back, Stallone doesn't sugarcoat the carnage. His soldiers for hire wreck gloriously gory vengeance on anyone who dares wander into their commando cross-hairs. As heads disintegrate and limbs leave their respective joints, the movie delivers on every taut, tense sequence of pre-vivisecting exposition.
At its core, The Expendables is an origins story, an attempt by Stallone to do the same thing with this group of grunts as he did for John Rambo and Rocky Balboa. We are introduced to the various characters, their idiosyncrasies and personal crises, and then left with enough lingering questions to warrant a sequel (or even better, an ongoing franchise). Standouts include Statham as the blade-wielding wise guy, Li as an aging martial artist with "little man's syndrome", and a sweaty, swarthy Lundgren as a drug-addled assassin with a questionable sense of loyalty. Even Rourke gets a "lost my soul" monologue that's outstanding.
As they say, however, the hero mythos is only as valid as the villain, and Julia's bro Eric is amazing as the evil bureaucrat hellbent on turning this tiny atoll into his own personal coke-strewn banana republic. He chews the tropical scenery with such finesse that he almost steals the film from the rest of his 'roid raging brethren.
During the fabulous finale that sees Crews literally tearing the movie apart with his sub-nuclear hand bazooka while the rest of the group maneuvers a multitude of bomb blasts, The Expendables finally proves its point. In a system which praises the pathetic excesses of Michael Bay and goes gaga over the simplified shaky-cam approach to action, Stallone knows his genre. He can battle royale with the best of them.
Review by Bill Gibron
Courtesy: www.FilmCritic.com
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