The Expendables 2 Reviews
Movie Chambers
"The Expendables 2″ is just entertaining enough to permit a third film. If only these steroids-packing seniors can coordinate schedules again.
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| Original Score: B
Projection Booth
Enjoyable, but disappointingly tame compared to its ferocious predecessor. The Expendables 2 is disposable.
| Original Score: 2.5/4
TV Guide's Movie Guide
The Expendables 2 is a shot to the arm of pure, silly action-movie fun, and it stars so many heavy hitters it might break your brain to keep up with what's happening onscreen at various points during its slim 103-minute run time.
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| Original Score: 3/4
TheShiznit.co.uk
Excessive in almost every other area possible: from outlandish explosions to over-the-top dialogue via horrendously delivered gags, it pushes the limit of what people will readily accept from an action movie that isn't directed by the Zuckers.
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| Original Score: 3/5
We Got This Covered
The Expendables 2 does for the action genre what "The Artist" did for the silent film genre: Distilled it down to its most basic parts before creating an homage that more than lives up to its past.
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| Original Score: 7.5/10
ScreenRant
Those hoping for a deeper, smarter, or more polished piece of action cinema: Sorry, but this franchise has pretty much established it isn't about that.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
The Aristocrat
...if seeing a man's head explode like a watermelon is your thing, book a ticket, because The Expendables 2 frequently makes fruit salad.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Montreal Film Journal
It brings back everything that was good about the first movie and makes it truly great, then adds a whole bunch of extra awesome on top of it.
3AW
It's cheesy, fun, disposable action pap on a big scale - but, boy, is it lazy.
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| Original Score: 3/5
American Profile
Despite its ridiculously high kill count, there's a vein of humor running throughout the script and almost as many quips zipping around as bullets.
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| Original Score: 3/5
The Standard
Yes, it's a joke, but it's an hilariously awesome one.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Sydney Morning Herald
The film thunders through its paces, under the energetic direction of Simon West.
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| Original Score: 3/5
FILMINK (Australia)
The plot is limp and the attempts at pathos are close to cringe-worthy, but there's no denying this sequel absolutely delivers in terms of classic testosterone-fuelled action.
MovieFIX
The Expendables 2 may not win any awards and will probably never be used in any university movie courses, but if you are in the mood for some good old-fashioned American action - then strap yourself in.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Screen-Space
The Expendables 2 meanders through a reined-in, talky first half before giving the modern action fans (or, more likely, their fathers) the nostalgic bloodbath they have unknowingly longed for.
Quickflix
Any hope I had of keeping a tally of fatalities in The Expendables 2 was quickly dashed by the opening melee, which makes the last ten minutes of The Wild Bunch look like the first ten minutes of Up.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Laramie Movie Scope
If you can get past all that blood and goofy, heavy-handed humor, this reunion of action stars on the brink of retirement is entertaining.
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| Original Score: B
2UE That Movie Show
The Expendables 2 is that 80s mothers milk, fortified (and aged) into whiskey - and it's a fun to drink in with friends.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Urban Cinefile
The pleasure of seeing Arnie back with a (large) gun in his hand, cracking the odd joke at his own and his team's expense, and all the collected weight of a thousand years of action hero experience to call on. Van Damme it, it's a blast
Urban Cinefile
It's not as good as the first film but if it's mindless bloody action you want with a few wry laughs and you've had a rough day at the office, this will undoubtedly shake the cobwebs
