After battling Central American rebels in the popular but
critically mixed 2010 film The Expendables, old school action stars Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, Randy
Couture and the gang are back for some more noisy, mad and blood splattering
fun as CIA Operative Mr. Church (Bruce Willis) enlists Stallone’s group of
Expendables in tracking a downed Chinese plane inside Albania. The plane was
carrying a valuable cargo which the CIA want but it is taken by international
criminal and arms dealer (and I’m not making this bit up) Jean Vilain (Jean-Claude
Van Damme) and his mercenary group of caricature Albanians. Stallone and his
team must try to get to Vilain before the plane’s cargo leads him to some
highly combustible merchandise.
Although first film had its fun and crazy moments I wasn’t
really a fan. I’ve never been a big action movie guy and don’t really like
Stallone. This time though a lot of the problems of the first have diminished
slightly and it is improved with a better story, great cameos and improved
special effects.
