Granted this movie is a Sylvester Stallone-directed movie so it's going to have cliche macho one-liners and lots of blood and killing. The movie The Expendables didn't differ too much from the typical action-oriented movie. The plot was slow to develop, but 45-minutes, and cameos from action superstars of the past the movie's plot was finally revealed. Then it was just blowing crap up and shooting holes into people. Rambo was reported to have almost 300 kills in it, but The Expendables probably came close.
I'm no movie critic and this is the closest I'm going to come, but I will say that if you're looking for a movie with deep philiosophical thought and intense plot scenes, you're not going to like it. If you're looking for a movie with gruesome kill shots and a boost of testosterone, then this is the perfect movie.
Not to spoil anything about the plot (like there was any in the first place) but Stallone did manage to break away from typical action movie cliche. That's all I have to say about that.
How exactly would you say he broke away from typical action movie cliche?
ReplyDeleteHe didn't get the girl. The smooch was awaited but never came.
ReplyDeleteThere was also no trash talk to the bad guy after he died.
No shot of the hero(es) with patriotic music being played.
And, the good-guy-turned-bad-but-sacrificing-himself-because-he-realized-he-was-wrong bit. He did live, but it was almost not clicheish.
I didn't say he completely broke away. There were more than enough cliche involved in the film.