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Barney Ross leads a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, a martial arts expert Yin Yang, heavy weapons specialist Hale Caesar, demolitionist Toll Road, and a loose-cannon sniper Gunner Jensen. When the group is commissioned by the mysterious Mr. Church to assassinate the dictator of a small South American island, Barney and Lee visit the remote locale to scout out their opposition and discover the true nature of the conflict engulfing the city.
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Unpretentious, effortless, classical in form and cool.
- unpretentiousprestige
- effortlessdemanding
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- rawmeticulous
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- swagner888on TMDB · Feb 20178/10
Very Good Action Movie Warning - reviewer is over 50. If you don't like action movies, you will not like this movie. If you like action movies, you will like this one. If you like 80's style action movies, you will love it. Great/funny one liners and action heroes who look like they can actually punch and take a punch. It also features a poor plot with many holes. But who cares?
Read the whole review on TMDB - Manuel São Bentoon TMDB · Sep 20235/10
Rewatch in preparation for EXPEND4BLES. "THE EXPENDABLES isn't as fun as I hoped for. The testosterone-filled cast tries hard to make a forgettable, formulaic story borderline enjoyable, but the action set pieces are mostly an incomprehensibly choppy, badly lit mess, despite a couple of admittedly cool, violent stunts. Nice score, though." Rating: C
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Cast
- Sylvester StalloneBarney Ross
- Jason StathamLee Christmas
- Jet LiYin Yang
- Dolph LundgrenGunner Jensen
- Eric RobertsJames Monroe
- Randy CoutureToll Road
- Steve AustinPaine
- David ZayasGeneral Garza
- Giselle ItiéSandra
- Charisma CarpenterLacy
Crew
- Sylvester StalloneDirector
- David CallahamScreenplay
- Sylvester StalloneScreenplay
- Jeffrey L. KimballDirector of Photography
- Brian TylerOriginal Music Composer
- Ken BlackwellEditor
- Paul HarbEditor
- Kevin King TempletonProducer
- Avi LernerProducer
- John ThompsonProducer
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