The Expendables Movie Review

SPOILER ALERT!

Although I enjoyed watching The Expendables, I feel bad for the movie. Given the cast of the film, it would have been one of the greatest action movies of all time.  Here’s what the movie equation would have looked like…

STALLONE + LI + STATHAM + COUTURE +  WILLIS + SCHWARZENEGGER + More… = AWESOME ACTION FLICK!

Unfortunately, here’s what happened…

STALLONE + LI + STATHAM + COUTURE +  WILLIS + SCHWARZENEGGER + More… = STALLONE x 3

Stallone 1: He was the main character of the movie.  I have nothing against Stallone being the star.  In fact, I have watched most of his movies – Rambo series, Rocky series, The Specialist (Sharon Stone was hot in this movie! Teehee!) to name a few.  Unfortunately, the other main characters – Li and Staham – lacked attention in the film.

Stallone 2: He wrote the script of the movie.  (He wrote it with Jeffrey Kimball, who doesn’t even have a wiki page.) Let’s face it, the action was there but the story was kind of lame.  Ex-CIA torturing the daughter of a General.  The General reacts by just throws a bottle of alcohol on the floor.  Come on!!! If I were the General, I would have ordered my men to kill the ex-CIA and his outnumbered crew in the General’s territory.

Stallone 3: He directed the movie. Too much already!

Recommendations:

• Get/Buy a solid story. The story of the A-team would have been a good enough story to start with.
• Hire a good script writer.  Working with the people behind the Ocean’s series and Italian Job would have produced an excellent script. Witty and everyone gets to say something.
• More fight sequence. The movie lacked the  awesome fight scenes from the Li and Statham’s movies.  Everyone was expecting a MMA fight sequence with Couture.
• Hire another director. John_McTiernan, director of Die Hard, would have been my choice. For starters, he would have hired an excellent cinematographer, who knows how to capture fight sequences, explosions, car chases and the like.  Obviously, the film failed to give justice to these kinds of scenes.
• Too much fire power!  It was a joke!  They were supposedly mercenaries, ex-special forces. The film should have shown some tactics other than just fire power.