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The Expendables

The Expendables

Movie · 2010 · 15 people

Sylvester Stallone directed and starred in Cehennem Melekleri (original title The Expendables), a 2010 American action film, and wrote the screenplay with David Callaham. A tribute to the blockbuster action movies of the late 1980s and early 1990s, it opens the series of the same name and reached US cinemas on August 13, 2010, through Lionsgate.

The story follows an elite mercenary team led by Barney Ross (Stallone): knife expert Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), martial artist Yin Yang (Jet Li), sniper Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren), heavy-weapons man Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) and demolitions expert Toll Road (Randy Couture). They slip into a South American country to topple a dictator, but nothing is as they were told: he is a puppet of a corrupt former CIA agent, played by Eric Roberts. Mickey Rourke, Steve Austin and David Zayas also appear, with brief turns by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis.

Shooting began on March 28, 2009, in Brazil, with Rio de Janeiro, New Orleans and Los Angeles among the locations. Avi Lerner produced, Brian Tyler composed, and Millennium Media is the company. Reviews were mixed, praising the action but faulting the thin story, yet it opened at number one in the US, UK, China and India and grossed 274 million dollars worldwide. Sequels followed in 2012 and 2014.

DirectorSylvester Stallone
Production companyMillennium Media

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Kadir Çermik Kadir Çermik Actor · 49 years old Sylvester Stallone Jason Statham Jet Li Dolph Lundgren Eric Roberts Randy Couture Steve Austin David Zayas Terry Crews Giselle Itié Charisma Carpenter Mickey Rourke Gary Daniels Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

This film makes one promise: put the action stars of the eighties and nineties in a single crew. And it keeps it. Knife man, sniper, heavy gunner, demolitions guy, everyone gets a specialty and the firefights keep coming. The story is a straight mission, but for genre fans that is hardly a flaw. If you want explosions, chases and old faces trading jabs, you are in the right place.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Stallone frames the film as a tribute, and that is exactly where its limit shows: the cast is bigger than the script can carry. Trying to make room for so many specialties, the screenplay hands each character a single trait and moves on; relationships within the team rarely go beyond a business card. The puppet dictator run by a corrupt former agent is one of the genre's most familiar set-ups, and the film uses it as it is rather than doing anything with it. Small wonder critics praised the action and found the story thin. Still, 274 million dollars worldwide shows how well vintage star power works as a marketing idea on its own, and the two sequels that followed prove the point.

Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humor and heart.

This is a mercenary film, built from start to finish around an armed operation. Gunfights and explosions are its main ingredients. It is not one to watch with young children. For adults and older teens who like action, it can make a good weekend pick. If you want something the whole family, grandparents included, can sit down to, choose something else.

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