The Expendables
Directed by Sylvester StalloneA CIA operative hires a team of mercenaries to eliminate a Latin dictator and a renegade CIA agent.
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The Expendables Ratings & Reviews
- immune_usmcApril 21, 2025Fantastic, old school action flick! It has all the elements of a enough story, enough personality and action that is not totally over the top. Best of all, the acting is great!
- mickerdooNovember 1, 2025Fun to see such an iconic action cast together. Delivers what you anticipate. Story is so so. But explosions and fights are “hell yeah”.
- ርልዪረJanuary 31, 2025The Expendables was an excellent movie in it's original version - the only issue I had with the original version was the climax - the action sequences did not live up to what was seen at the beginning of the movie - This new version titled The Expendables: Extended Directors Cut - does fix that issue with the ending - and the ending is far more dramatic and spectacular now - the action sequences are longer in the climax which makes the ending more satisfying. However with this new extended cut comes a few new extra scenes at the start which kind of slow the pace down - and don't really do anything new for the plot. For example there are some music-video type narrative scenes, if you don't know what I mean there are a number of these types of scenes in COBRA and ROCKY IV - these ruin the pace and are really not required - if a scene can be done without sticking a song over it, it should be done that way - it's just lazyness on the moviemaker's part. Also there is a rather dumb sequence showing Dolph Lundgren's character somehow coming out of the plane that Sly and Jason Statham have travelled on to the island of Vilaina at the start of the movie (somehow Dolph managed to misaculously avoid being caught by the other 2 expendables en-route.) this only serves to ruin what were otherwise alread excellently edited scenes in the original movie. Which is why I give this an excellent 4 star rating rather than the perfect 5 it should have been. out of the two versions I prefer the previous uncut bluray release - however this disc is still a must-buy just to see the excellent end action sequences in their newly edited form. If Sly had simply slapped the new ending on the otherwise excellent original this would've been the perfect special edition. This is still an excellent version to watch however and an excellent companion piece to the original movie and worthy of being part of your collection.
- KnightmareAlphaSeptember 9, 2025It got strong action, a likable cast, pretty good set pieces and some hard hitting fights. However it can't really deliver a full movie experience as the characters are too flat, the arcs too rushed, and it lacks in meaning. It has time were it faints depth a bit, and I like that, but it can't carry the full experience. It also lacks the one liners that made the old school action movies so fun to watch. Still, it's novel and flows well. Could be a good afternoon flick with friends around the grill. Only real down side is a tasteless torture scene that kinda kills the mood, by making it too real.
