The Expendables (2010)
Posted on 25. Oct, 2011 by Good Movies Gone Bad in Good Movies Gone Bad
When word hit the streets that a whole bunch of Hollywood tough guys were starring in the same movie, a movie which was written by none other than Rocky himself, action fans everywhere peed in their pants a little. What could be better than Jet Li kicking ass alongside Jason Statham kicking ass alongside Mickey Rourke kicking ass alongside the massive engorged behemoth that is Dolph Lundgren bludgeoning helpless mortals to death with this tree-trunk arms? A cameo by Bruce Willis? Got it. A cameo right next to that cameo by Schwarzenegger? Got it. Coming out of this movie we should’ve felt like we’d gone twelve rounds against a double-team of Frasier and Ali with an extra round of waterboarding to cool off. So if all the ingredients were there, what was missing? Leave it to GMGB to find the answer, while staking out a position on neck tattoos, pipes and just a what it takes to kill a man.
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