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It makes good on the old-school action it promises, but given all the talent on display, The Expendables should hit harder.
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The movie had been billed as a throwback to the action flicks of the 1980s, but that pitch turns out to be false advertising. Jan 31, 2011 | Rating: 1.5/4
The movie had been billed as a throwback to the action flicks of the 1980s, but that pitch turns out to be false advertising.
Rene Rodriguez
The rest of the mayhem is simply ultraviolent, nonstop, and numbing. Better jokes might have helped. Jan 3, 2011 | Rating: C- | Full Review…
The rest of the mayhem is simply ultraviolent, nonstop, and numbing. Better jokes might have helped.
Peter Rainer
What we get is pure, unadulterated B-movie stuff, with an A-budget. Aug 26, 2010
What we get is pure, unadulterated B-movie stuff, with an A-budget.
Derek Malcolm
The worst action film of the year, and that's saying something. Aug 20, 2010 | Rating: 1/5
The worst action film of the year, and that's saying something.
Adam Woodward
In which a bunch of macho has-beens and never-weres splash down in the action pond for one last go-round. Aug 20, 2010 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
In which a bunch of macho has-beens and never-weres splash down in the action pond for one last go-round.
Anthony Quinn
The movie struggles to find a main attraction that's worth the bullets it's printed on. Aug 20, 2010 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The movie struggles to find a main attraction that's worth the bullets it's printed on.
Tim Robey
Unfortunately, The Expendables does nothing to update anything for the new millennium. Oct 28, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Unfortunately, The Expendables does nothing to update anything for the new millennium.
David Harris
Treats its audience as a friend, inviting one and all to share in the fun; the dialogue, as atrocious as it is, is recited knowing wholeheartedly the very audience sharing the joke on the other side of the screen. Nov 5, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Treats its audience as a friend, inviting one and all to share in the fun; the dialogue, as atrocious as it is, is recited knowing wholeheartedly the very audience sharing the joke on the other side of the screen.
Jack Porter
A minor film on this sort of scale is always a major gesture. Nov 19, 2017 | Full Review…
A minor film on this sort of scale is always a major gesture.
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
The Expendables is more than just your average action movie; it is the action movie of the year uniting the grittiness and soul of the old genre with the special effects and coolness of the new genre. See it. Sep 11, 2017 | Rating: A | Full Review…
The Expendables is more than just your average action movie; it is the action movie of the year uniting the grittiness and soul of the old genre with the special effects and coolness of the new genre. See it.
Candice Frederick
Trust me, [there's] a scene you need to witness with a crowd that whoops and cheers, which is really what this film demands of its audience throughout. Aug 22, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Trust me, [there's] a scene you need to witness with a crowd that whoops and cheers, which is really what this film demands of its audience throughout.
Brigit Grant
Some kind of meatheaded masterpiece, it's cinematic junk food of the highest order. May 9, 2015 | Full Review…
Some kind of meatheaded masterpiece, it's cinematic junk food of the highest order.
Sean Burns
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