Plot: After rescuing his rival Mauser in China, The Expendables start to relax once more for a job well done. But Ross finds himself forced to take another mission from the CIA operative Mr. Church, to retrieve an item from a downed airplane in Albania. But when they get there, things get out of hand as they encounter international criminal and arms dealer Jean Vilain who takes the item for himself and kills a young Expendable named Billy. So The Expendables are off to get the item back while also wanting revenge for their friends death.
Now once again we have a movie where it's meant to be just a bunch of action with a ton of action stars with a story that we shouldn't really care about just like the first movie... except it's done a million, bajillion, kabillion times better. This movie delivered what I wanted to get from the first movie and it delivers it big time. Not only do we have sooooooooo many more action scenes than the first movie, but when they do give us those scenes, they're not just big, they're epic. Just the first scenes of the movie alone proves it - not just with all the big guns, explosions, and all that great stuff, but also with these big tanks, a chase in a river, and just so many bad guys to kill in various ways. On top of that, not only do we get more actions stars, but they take advantage of all of them. We even finally see Bruce Wills and Arnold Schwarzenegger join in the fighting, and we also get Chuck Norris in this movie. I mean I'm more familiar with this guy's reputation than his work, but when I saw him in the climax, he was pretty awesome. And while the characters in of themselves are in no way memorable (as expected) we still got a lot more time with the other Expendables both in action and in down time. And while there's nothing too memorable about the down time moments, it's very clear that the writers put a lot more effort into it so that there would be an enjoyable amount of charm (so to speak) when they're just hanging around and talking. Now does that mean that there aren't any cheesy moments? Of coarse not! There are more than plenty of moments where the dialogue is plain stupid. But what makes it work compared to the first film is that they know that it's bad and yet they still decide to have fun with it. I mean I don't know about you guys, but I'm especially fond of when they made references to their own movies - particularly Schwarzenegger and Willis. And once again, it's the big fight at the end that's the best part of the movie. But this time we have everyone joining in the fight with their own guns and such and it goes on for a while and it's just a ton. of. fun. Ultimately, that's the main word I would use to describe this movie: fun. This film just learns from the mistakes that the first film had, and for the most part just goes all in with their concept, and when they do it's just a whole bunch of delightful, mindless, epic, fun.
And that's my review for The Expendables 2. It's still not a movie to watch if you actually wanted thought out characters or story for whatever reason. But nevertheless, its giving us a whole bunch of action stars in one big action movie just like the first movie, but with more stars, less focus on dialogue and story - but is still more thought out when it does - and more action that is bigger, more epic, and just a whole ton of fun to watch. If the first movie didn't quite reach that point for you like it didn't do for me, this is the movie that makes up for it big time. Now we just have less than a month to find out if the third movie can somehow be just as good if not maybe but possibly not likely better than this... seriously, I hope it turn out good and all but...man the climax in this movie is just... how are they honestly going to top that at all?
Rating: 75%
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