The Expendables

2010 103 min ★ 6.3 Thriller, Adventure, Action

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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Cast

Sylvester Stallone

Barney Ross

Jason Statham

Lee Christmas

Jet Li

Yin Yang

Dolph Lundgren

Gunner Jensen

Eric Roberts

James Monroe

Randy Couture

Toll Road

Steve Austin

Paine

David Zayas

General Garza

Giselle Itié

Sandra

Charisma Carpenter

Lacy

Details

Director

Sylvester Stallone

Screenplay

David Callaham

Tagline

"Choose your weapon."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$80,000,000

Revenue

$274,470,394

Production

Nimar Studios, Rogue Marble, Millennium Media, Lionsgate, Nu Image Entertainment

Reviews

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swagner888

February 21, 2017

★ 8/10

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?

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Manuel São Bento

September 18, 2023

★ 5/10

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