The Expendables Full Online Movie Review

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The Expendables, with nearly every major action star fromthe 1980s and 1990s appearing, was 20 years in the making. This is the moviethat every fan of the genre has been awaiting. And it delivers in an orgy ofviolence and nostalgia. You must watch The Expendables online for free.

How do you even begin to describe a movie of this magnitude?Ill start with something that still resonates in my head the total,uninhibited applause of the theatre crowd as each of the actors names appearedin the opening credits. Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, BruceWillis, Dolph Lundgren, Eric Roberts, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Mickey Rourke,Randy Couture, Stone Cold Steve Austin, David Zayas. These are the Olympiansof what was arguably the golden age of Action/Adventure films. And to have themall in the same movie is almost unimaginable.

Of course if all these actors were still in their primes,their $20 million per picture salaries would have made this movie impossible.But just because they are all past their primes doesnt mean they cant stillkick butt. This movie is thrilling partly due to these movie icons still beingbad-asses.

SylvesterStallone, who co-wrote the screenplay, plays Barney Ross, the leader of a groupof mercenaries who call themselves The Expendables. Rosss group gets called todo the jobs no one else will do. The members have wide ranging skills, and aremade up of a knife specialist (Lee Christmas, played by Jason Statham) amartial artist (Ying Yang, played by Jett Li), a big gun expert (GunnarJensen played by Dolph Lundgren), a demolition expert (Toll Road played by RandyCouture) and another gun expert (Hale Caesar played by Terry Crews). Thegroup receives their assignments via their handler, Tool (played by MickeyRourke).

The audience gets introduced to The Expendables as theycomplete their current assignment. They board a boat where rebels are about tokill hostages. Though they are hopelessly outnumbered, the mercenaries displaytheir killing skills and ultra cool manner under pressure as theysystematically kill every rebel onboard. Among the imaginative kills is onecase where the enemy has his upper body decapitated, but his legs are stillstanding. This first sequence is all you need to see to know what the rest ofthe movie will hold.

Quickly we get into the main storyline. The CIA approaches TheExpendables to do a particularly nasty job.. to overthrow a maniacal SouthAmerican General named Garza (played by David Zayas). Garza is a drug lord andmurderer in a fictitious country called Vilena. When Ross and Christmas go toVilena to do some reconnaissance they meet a local female freedom fighter namedSandra (played by Giselle Itie). Sandra tells Ross that General Garza is just afigure head, and that the person really responsible for all the atrocities isex-CIA guy James Monroe (brilliantly played by Eric Roberts) and his right-handmen Dan Paine (a beefed-up Stone Cold Steve Austin) and The Brit (GaryDaniels). Shortly after their meeting with Sandra things go awry, and Ross andChristmas are forced to flee the country in a hail of gunfire and explosions.Sandra is captured before she can escape.

With the knowledge that Sandra is facing certain torture anddeath, Ross gathers the rest of his mercenary group to go back into Vilena totry to save Sandra and defeat Garza and Monroe.

The action scenes in this movie are exhilarating andconstant. There are tons of gunfire and explosions. I was most impressed by allthe exhausting hand-to-hand combat, especially by Jason Statham and Stone ColdSteve Austin. They are machines.

Sylvester Stallone is fantastic and a marvel at age 64. Hisphysical presence and energy are those of a much younger man. And though he isthe star of the movie, he gives much screen time to the other actors,especially Jason Statham. In fact this role sets up Statham to star in manymore action flicks.

The 2 best performances though belong to Mickey Rourke and EricRoberts.

Rourke plays the long-time mercenary turned overseer as asort of wise old sage. He is clearly tired and worn out from many years offighting and killing. There is one standout scene in particular where he givesa soliloquy about his life to Ross. This is another high point in the resurrection of Rourkescareer.

Eric Roberts is known for intense supporting roles, and heis superb as the disgraced CIA operative who is really pulling the politicalstrings of the tyrannical General.

Finally, the scene that everyone has been talking about .the one where the Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willisshare the screen for the first and only time in history is awesome!. They are the 3 Mount Rushmore figures of 1980s action movies, and to see theminteracting in the same scene is unbelievable.

The Expendables is not only a great action movie, buthistoric in what it delivers. Supposedly Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagalwere also offered roles in this film but turned them down. That was definitelytheir loss.

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