The Expendables 2 Movie Reviews
4.0
Devesh Sharma | Filmfare
Arnold Schwarzenegger's character sums up the film in one line when he says, "we all belong in a museum." It's sad that we haven't got a genuine action star to inherit the mantle of the likes of Stallone, Arnold, Chuck Norris or even Van Damme. These guys aren't expendables but quite the reverse. The film takes off in style. Stallone and his gang of soldiers for hire rescue a Chinese businessman from a Nepalese Shantytown (which looks like its ThailandRead full review3.5
Rachna Srivastava | Koimoi
The opening of The Expendables 2 is bang bang with the rough-tuff group of mercenaries on a rescue mission, at Sindhupalchawk, Nepal. They on three fully loaded vehicles, resembling war trucks, enter with grandeur. Like cakewalk they demolish, shoot, kill. Yin Yang (Jet Li) uses his combating skills well put to use. In addition to saving a Chinese Billionaire, The Expendables save Barney’s old buddy Trench, with whom he shares a love-hate bondRead full review3.0
Rajeev Masand | ibnlive.com
Considerably more fun than the earlier film, The Expendables 2 doesn’t take itself too seriously, and neither should you. Eyeing a rickety old jet that Bruce Willis has just presented to him in one of the film’s closing scenes, Sylvester Stallone declares: “That plane belongs in a museum.” “We all do,” quips Arnold Schwarznegger, echoing your sentiments exactly. Back to deliver a second helping of that bullets-and-blood buffet of 80s action cinema, starRead full review3.0
Baradwaj Rangan | The Hindu
Which film could one point to as the progenitor of The Expendables? Considering the blood-spattered, shoot-‘em-up nature of the plot, played out by a gang of grizzled veterans, you may be tempted to go back to Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch. But that would be a mistake, for The Expendables has no truck with that film’s weary, end-of-days existentialism. A more relevant ancestor is Space Cowboys, where Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee JonesRead full review3.0
Vinayak Chakravorty | India Today
It's "male pattern badness". Bruce Willis' CIA agent tells Sly Stallone and his bunch of macho mercenaries in one scene. The Expendables 2, carrying on with the explosive drama of the first film, very much defines itself with that line. The good thing is it works. The sequel, unapologetically corny and more badass than the first film, is tailor-made for you if you dig old-school mayhem. For Stallone, wandering aimlessly with stray Rocky and Rambo shots over the past decadeRead full review2.5
Neil Genzlinger (NYTNS) | NDTV Movies
Just when you think the action-hero-filled The Expendables 2 has forgotten that this is at heart a comedy franchise, along comes a guy who has been out of the game for years to save the day. That familiar, weathered face belongs to Chuck Norris, and whatever Sylvester Stallone, the architect of these films, paid him to return to the big screen, it wasn’t enough. Mr. Norris arrives just as the blood baths and leaden dialogue are beginning to growRead full review2.0
Rashid Irani | Hindustan Times
The follow-up to the testosterone-charged 2010 blockbuster reassembles the cast of ageing action icons and calls on them to deliver more of the same knuckleduster excitement of their first outing. So more of the same is what you get with The Expendables 2, a recycled concoction with the familiar action-heavy framework without improving upon it. The nonsensical plotline merely serves as a pretext for the usual barrage of stunt-laden set piecesRead full review1.5
Shalini Langer | Screen
DOES more bucks for the bang also mean more bangs for the buck? In this case, yes. Hundred million dollars get you Hollywood's biggest action stars wielding their biggest guns, saving the smallest guys (from somewhere in South East Asia to somewhere between Ukraine and Bulgaria, with a Chinese billionaire thrown in), for the largest prize -- kilotons of undiscovered plutonium. You get lot of breathless action scenes and some amount of talkingRead full review0.5
Shaikh Ayaz | rediff.com
With all due respect to Sylvester Stallone fans, this is a dumb movie. To watch it, is like entering into a war zone where at the mere command of their chief Barney Ross (Stallone), the old boys -- and an utterly undesirable Chinese lass, who seems to know everything about everything -- won't think twice before jumping into the fray. The problem is they don't think at all. Their low IQ banter could put the other Stallone dud like Get Carter to shameRead full review