given that the 80s happened, there are basically two ways to make an 80s action movie in the year 2012. the first way is to make a standard 80s action movie, but with different actors, updated special effects, and in 3d or whatever. the second way is to do all of that, but with a bunch of winking and self-referential lines. the first expendables movie did it mostly the first way; the second expendables movie did it mostly the second way. having seen both, i humbly submit to you that the first way is better. the remainder of my comments are best presented in bullet point format:
- -1, not enough terry crews
- -1, too much dolph lundgren
- -1 *way* too much schwarzenegger dialogue
- +1 for getting what is surely a chuck norris fact into the film.
- scott adkins was wasted on this movie. the man is a masterpiece who needs to be given free rein to bounce around the scenery as he wills, not cooped up into a simple bad guy role with a single fight scene.
the expendables 2 gets 2 expendables, primarily for the lines that were good and for delivering on the promise of explosions.
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