The Expendables
2010, Adventure/Action, 1h 43m
208 Reviews 250,000+ RatingsWhat to know
It makes good on the old-school action it promises, but given all the talent on display, The Expendables should hit harder. Read critic reviews
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Barney Ross
Lee Christmas
Yin Yang
Hale Caesar
Toll Road
Gunnar Jensen
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Critic Reviews for The Expendables
All Critics (208) | Top Critics (61) | Fresh (88) | Rotten (120)
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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.
September 11, 2017 | Rating: A | Full Review… -
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February 18, 2012 | Rating: B | Full Review… -
The movie had been billed as a throwback to the action flicks of the 1980s, but that pitch turns out to be false advertising.
January 31, 2011 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review… -
The rest of the mayhem is simply ultraviolent, nonstop, and numbing. Better jokes might have helped.
January 3, 2011 | Rating: C- | Full Review… -
Unnatural but kind of remarkable.
December 21, 2010 | Rating: C | Full Review… -
What we get is pure, unadulterated B-movie stuff, with an A-budget.
August 26, 2010
Audience Reviews for The Expendables
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Jun 11, 2014Plenty of cliche narratives and dialogue to go along with a bland plot. The Expendables may be an action-goers delight and filled with explosions, machismo, testosterone and heavy star-power from the operative-experienced ensemble, but it's ultimately a neutral Stallone-picture that really doesn't scale with any other of the actor/director's previous hit films or any others in general for that matter. 3/5Eugene B Super Reviewer
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Jul 31, 2013Pointless violence with poor political plausibility and the vague suggestion that in fact, the mission's entirely about a woman. Adding that to the half-hearted attempts at humour, my uncertainty as to why I started watching it moved to a "Why am I _still_ watching this?" feeling that intensified steadily throughout. It's a movie that might have worked were it intended to be an action-comedy, but as if Stallone could ever parody himself; as a true action movie, it fails to be even a bad 80s action movie. Horribly out-of-date, bloated, self-indulgent mess. Good to know Dolph Lundgren's not dead, though.Daniel P Super Reviewer
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Oct 07, 2012There are certainly worse ways to spend a couple of hours, though you'd probably have to be a ten year old boy recovering from a brain injury to get the undemanding most out of this throwback to the 80s Action Movie, where, lest you've forgotten, niceties like plot and character development never got in the way of a good explosion.Stephen M Super Reviewer
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Oct 03, 2012Easy dumbed down action with some great set pieces but it never really impacts the audience.Sophie B Super Reviewer
The Expendables Quotes
| Yin Yang: | I need a raise. |
| Barney 'The Schizo' Ross: | Why? |
| Yin Yang: | I need the money for my family. I want to send my son to a better school. |
| Lee Christmas: | When did you get a family? |
| Yin Yang: | Don't ask. I don't know. |
| Yin Yang: | I need more money. |
| Barney 'The Schizo' Ross: | I know you told me, for your family right? |
| Yin Yang: | I don't have family. |
| Barney 'The Schizo' Ross: | I know. |
| Paine: | How many men you got? |
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