An Action Movie For Action Fans
Without any hesitation at all, I have to say that this is a must see
movie for any fan of action movies. It has action in abundance from beginning to end - everything from blazing shootouts to martial arts. For the most part it's a lot of fun, and often moves into overdrive in the action scenes. It even features what I thought was a decent enough performance from Sylvester Stallone as Barney Ross (a name you have to love for this kind of character) who's the leader of a band of apparently special ops mercenaries. Stallone also directed to no great note, but the point of the movie was the action, which is well done. The whole thing opens with the team taking on a group of Somali pirates and leads up to a huge and frankly overdone battle between the team and a group of soldiers they've been hired to do battle with on a Caribbean island. That last battle was overlong to the point of tedious, going on for about 20 minutes with hardly a word of dialogue. That was fun for a few minutes but it should have ended a lot sooner than it did. The story was strange. The team was supposedly hired to take out this Caribbean dictator and possibly the Americans who fund him. In the end, though (and actually pretty early on) the movie became a "save the girl" story as Barney sets out to rescue the dictator's daughter, who's actually opposed to her father and gets captured and tortured by his soldiers. That seemed to be the wrong direction to take. The movie should have perhaps held its focus on the battle against the evil dictator. It's fun from an action perspective, an even features a couple of notable and uncredited cameos at the beginning from Bruce Willis as the guy who hires the team and from Arnold Schwarzenegger as a potential rival who loses out on the job. You have to love Stallone's line as Schwarzenegger walks away after losing out on the job: "he wants to be president." It's enjoyable enough and definitely action-packed. It didn't have enough of a consistent storyline for my liking, but real action fans will love it.. blablabla2497@gmail.com watch Major Payne movie
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The Key to this film is the AutoPilot Scene!
It would be way too easy to write a snarky review tearing down this
movie; other reviewers have that covered. In my opinion, the movie is at its best during Statham and Stallone's first trip to the island. It feels like we're in an 80s-action movie and the plot is still setting up. But then things go downhill rapidly. Digging deeper, for me the key to this whole movie is a scene on the way back to the island the second time. For no particular reason, a shot holds on Stallone switching on the plane's autopilot switch. This shot seems out of place, but upon further recollection it's is a metaphor for the whole movie. The Expendables is what happens when you throw all these action guys together and press autopilot. Pure speculation on my part here, but I imagine Stallone wanted to create an Oceans Eleven type experience and work with his friends. Not sure if he achieved what he wanted to, but the Expendables is no Oceans Eleven.. |
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