Monday, August 20, 2012

The Expendables 2


Movie: The Expendables 2
Genre: action
Synopsis: The gang from The Expendables (Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, and Bruce Willis are back – and this time they added Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Arnold himself.  The plot does not really matter.  Jean-Claude leads a bunch of really bad guys and Sylvester Stallone leads his good guys and the kick butt (after getting their own kicked a bit).

My two cents: Much better than the first installment.  You just need to leave any sense of reality behind (such as the idea of 20+ bad guys with machine guns never actually getting a bullet to hit the good guys) and enjoy the action.  When Chuck Norris walked into the scene (to the theme from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly), I wanted to stand up and cheer.  It got hard to keep track of the one-liners the characters kept tossing about in reference to their older roles.  Chuck Norris’ character even told a Chuck Norris joke.  I loved this movie.  With any luck, they will be back for installment 3 – and with expanded roles for Arnold and Chuck.

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