The Expendables

Fail.

The premise might have been fun; to get a battalion of "action movie" superstars together for an (what else) action movie.

Throw in a smaller group of former wrestlers and mixed martial arts star names, and a lot of pyrotechnics, and the master plan was to have a blockbuster of a movie.

There was enough hype to get me excited enough to hunt down this movie; but overall, i despite my low expectations, this movie failed. Badly.

It had a stupid plot. I did not even have any expectations regarding any plot...sure, it was about some mercenaries on a ficitious central american island somewhere eventually taking out a drug lord/evil general/CIA turned evil operative...

It had really bad lines. Imagine Stallone and Schwazenneger doing their very worst cliches, and then parodying those cliches.

But the worst thing about the movie?

The so-called action scenes were not good. In fact, they weren't even close to HK actions scenes of the 1990s. The times have moved on...the technology has moved on...but these scenes, like many of the actors, are past their "sell-by" date.

I suppose if this movie is shown at 10pm on Channel 5, and if there is really nothing else on, I might leave the TV on...or maybe, just save electricity and switch the TV off.