A good movie

It is not something that happens very often, a sequel better than its predecessor, but this movie is definitely one of the (very) few examples. Indeed, even though the concept of ‘The Expendables’ sounded pretty awesome on paper, the end-result was just decent even at times actually rather boring. With this sequel, they kept the same concept but improved all the weaknesses of the first installment. Indeed, at first, you have one of the most bad-ass impressive introduction I have ever seen in an action flick so, right from the start, they were on the right track. Then, the dialogues which were terribly disappointing with the first installment, were this time really fun and full of nice one-liners. All in all, even though the story was still pretty pedestrian, I thought the whole thing was much better written this time around. Take Dolph Lungren, they wrote a nice joke about the fact that the guy seems to be an idiot but he has actually a master in chemistry which also happens to be the case with Lungren in real life. That’s some smart writing there. And it was the same thing with Chuck Norris. I mean, the guy pops up seemingly from nowhere but makes a great entrance and throws in a ‘Chuck Norris fact’ on top of that. Simply awesome! At last, but not least, Jean Claude Van Damme who hasn’t done anything remotely good for a couple of decades (with the notable exception of ‘JCVD’) was just a hell of a bad guy, completely believable and a worthy opponent for our expendables. To conclude, even though it might not be a masterpiece, it is still one hell of an action flick, it is definitely worth a look and, right now, I really wonder how the 3rd installment will turn out to be.

7/10