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Movie Reviews - The Expendables 
 
Movie Reviews this week looks at the all action drama The Expendables.

The Expendables is billed as the greatest action stars ever assembled in one 
movie, and you can see why. Fans have been pinching themselves from the 
expendables movie trailers alone, with Sylvester Stallone (Rocky, Rambo), Dolph 
Lundgren (Universal Soldier), Jet Li (Hero), Arnold Schwarzeneggar 
(Terminator), Bruce Willis (Die Hard), Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler), Jason 
Statham (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) not to mention Terry Crews 
(Everybody Hates Chris) and Randy Couture (Red Belt), a MMF (Mixed Martial 
Arts) superstar in his own right, this is a feast for action fans of the last 
20 years.

The movie begins with a group of Americans being held hostage and it is up to 
our heroes to put an end to it, the inevitable shoot out goes in favour of our 
heroes, except that Gunner Jensen played by Dolph Lundgren is a little too 
eager to hang one of the pirates, Ying Yang played by Jet Li attempts to stop 
him, but it takes Barney Ross played by Stallone to place a gun to his head to 
make him stop. This sets the stage for Jensen being the loose canon of the 
group.

The main plot of the movie is that a rogue CIA operative James Munroe played by 
Eric Robers, is distributing drugs via Bolivia into the U.S. after getting a 
certain General Garza played by David Zayas (Dexter) to do his bidding. One of 
the CIA heads Mr. Church played by Bruce Willis has hired Ross to get rid of 
him, albeit off the books, he also sent the same mission to Trench played by 
Arnold Schwarzeneggar, and the two superstars play on their well known 
off-screen feud, as Trench walks away after declining the mission Church asks 
Ross what his problem his, to which Ross replies sarcastically "He wants to be 
president". Ross agrees with his band of men to take the mission, and he must 
now convince his men to also accept the mission regardless of the danger.

Ross and Lee Christmas played by Jason Statham go on an initial exploration to 
Bolivia, pretending to be wild life naturalists, they meet their contact Sandra 
played by the gorgeous Giselle ItiƩ, who happens to be the general's daughter, 
and inevitably the soldiers arrive for an encounter (Stallone mentioned he was 
injured during this fight scene and you can see why), as always the action 
scenes are brutal, and fans of Jason Statham's movies won't be disappointed.

Ross and Christmas escape via the plane they brought in, but Sandra is taken 
hostage, and Munroe intends to find out from her who were these men that killed 
most of his men, and why she has gone against him. Despite the fact that she is 
the general's daughter the signs are looking ominous for her, unless Ross and 
his gang are willing to return to Bolivia, rescue her and put and end to 
Munroe's drugs campaign.

The Expendables as all action movies go is a treat for the fans, not so much 
for the plot mainly because of the assembly of casts many wouldn't think their 
demands or egos would allow them to share the screen with their contemporaries. 
Much of the melancholy of their lifestyle is envisaged by the stalwart Mickey 
Rourke who plays Tool, a tattoo artist and former member of Ross's gang, who 
has a lifetime of regret for some of the things he had to do. Already there is 
talk of a sequel, with Stallone asking fans what they would like to see in it.

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