THE EXPENDABLES 2

 

Is there a such thing as too much action for an action based movie?  Well, when you combined all of these men into one movie, who cares!  With this line up of men, we're going to be here for a while.  Not to mention, you guys are in for a treat.  Starting with the main crew from the first Expendables, we have.........

 

Sylvester Stallone (Barney Ross), Jason Statham (Lee Christmas), Dolph Lundgren (Gunnar Jensen), Terry Crews (Hale Caesar), Jet Li (Yin Yang), and Randy Couture (Toll Road).  Also in the first one we had short appearances by Bruce Willis (Church) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (Trench).  However, in part 2, both actors did a little more than just appear.  In fact, The Expendables 2 brings whole new group of newbies and some "back in the day" faves.  As we continue down this list of bad a**es, we have a couple of new faces like.....

Liam Hemsworth (Billy the kid) and Yu Nan (Maggie). 

Then we have our "back in the day" faves....

Jean-Claude Van Damme (Jean Vilain) and Chuck Norris (Booker).  Whew (wiping my forehead), now that that's done, let's get started.

 

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THE EXPENDABLES 2

 

      Now, giving the fact that this movie is still pretty fresh, I'm sure there are plenty of you that haven't seen this so once again, I will try really really hard not to spoil the whole movie.  So much to talk about, where do I start?  Let's just dive right in.

This movie was the shh......(clearing my throat), I'm sorry, let's start over.  This was the best action packed movie of 2012, hands down the best that I've seen so far this year.  I mean think about it for a minute.  You got Rambo meets The Transporter, Universal Soldier meets Fearless, The Terminator meets White Chicks ( I know, I know, Terry  hasn't done any action based movies, sorry), Bloodsport meets The Ultimate Fighter, Die Hard meets The Hunger Games (even if he didn't fight in the first one, he still does later on), and Way of the Dragon meets Shuang Shi ji (yeah, good luck with that one, never heard of it).  Yu Nan is new to me so I looked her up (a.k.a google) and found a few titles I've never heard of.

The movie starts off with a "mean" mission, BOOM!  BAM! CRASH (trying not to give too much away)!  Then Barney gets a visit.  Guess who?  That's right, Church.  Now it's time for the next mission but with a twist.

 

      As Maggie joins the team (briefly) we soon find that she can hang with the big boys and their big toys, in other words (for all you nasty minded people), she can carry her own and very well might I add.  Then there's Billy, a.k.a Billy the Kid.  Billy is a bad ass sniper and does a fine job.  While Booker is pretty good at being the last man standing, Barney makes sure he's the only one walking out the door in his fight against Jean Vilain.  Mean while, during the big shoot out, there was some "bad" jokes, like......

 

Trench,  "I'm out of ammo, I'll be back."

Church, "You're always coming back, I'll be back."

Trench, "Yippie-Ki-yay."

 

Then there's another one, when Booker walks passed Trench....

 

Trench, "Who's next, Rambo?"

 

To be sure that I don't give too much info on this, I think this is a good spot to stop at.  So I ask again, is there a such thing as too much action for an action packed movie?  Not with these guys.  You be the judge.  If you haven't seen it yet, please do and tell me what you think.  If you already seen it, your comments are always welcome.  I Love My Action Movies.  That's all for now but stay tuned cause there's more to come.  Til next time.......

 

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