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Alynda Wheat, People: POOR (cg) "Sylvester Stallone and a pack of aging action stars rely on nostalgia to propel a creaky bore." (Read the full review...) 100 words, 08/12/10 Richard Corliss, Time: MODERATE "...the seven veteran stars of 'The Expendables' are a cumulative 439 years old and have been making movies for 238 years.... The reunion plays OK..." (Read the full review...) 1,086 words, 08/13/10 Jake Coyle, Associated Press: WEAK (cg) "Menacing one-liners ('Now we can see the inside of him, and I see lies!') and poor production values made me wonder if I walked into not a movie theater but a time warp." (Read the full review...) 808 words, 08/12/10 Thelma Adams, Us Weekly: WEAK (cg) "Stallone needs a lighter touch, and his face looks as laminated as a playing card. The film has some laughs -- but they're largely unintentional." (Read the full review...) 80 words, 08/12/10 Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: VERY GOOD (cg) "...backwardly fun... a completely low-tech, brute-force movie, a real meathead jamboree.... keeps the body count coming so that it sates you like a junk-food craving fulfilled." (Read the full review...) 280 words, 08/13/10 Michael Phillips, A.O. Scott, At the Movies: FAIR (cg) Michael Phillips: "Skip it." A.O. Scott: "Rent it." (Watch the full review...) 179 seconds, 08/14/10 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: WEAK (cg) "Stallone forgets to include non-spazzy direction, a coherent plot, dialogue that actors can speak without cringing, stunts that don't fizzle, blood that isn't digital and..." (Read the full review...) 553 words, 08/13/10 Claudia Puig, USA Today: WEAK (cg) "...a movie that nobody needs -- gratuitously savage, implausible and sometimes incoherent.... Stallone forgot to develop the characters." (Read the full review...) 464 words, 08/13/10 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: MODERATE (cg) "...little more than an ordinary, uninspired action feature. Replace the name stars with unknowns and this would struggle to find a straight-to-DVD distributor." (Read the full review...) 896 words, 08/13/10
A.O. Scott, New York Times: WEAK "...might more aptly be described as Bad Kurosawa, Bad Peckinpah or Bad Leone. Which might be a way of saying that it's better-than-average Stallone." (Read the full review...) 895 words, 08/13/10 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: VERY GOOD (cg) "Everyone gets their solos -- first an action beat, then a soliloquy that's usually about female trouble -- until the grand finale erupts, a symphony of skull-crunching..." (Read the full review...) 446 words, 08/13/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: FAIR "If you don't want to go, no review can change your mind. Certainly not this one." (Read the full review...) 625 words, 08/13/10 Lou Lumenick, New York Post: WEAK (cg) "Direct-to-video bad. Awful enough that Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme, not the choosiest of artists, took a pass after reading the script." (Read the full review...) 430 words, 08/13/10 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: MODERATE (cg) "Most of the dialogue is parceled out in three-word chunks. Here are some lines: 'Let her go.' 'He deserved it.' 'Come on, baby!' 'Ride and die!' 'It's personal business.' 'You shot me.' " (Read the full review...) 496 words, 08/13/10 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: MODERATE (cg) "Nice to see these grizzled faces again, but fresher material would have helped." (Read the full review...) 325 words, 08/13/10 Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times: MODERATE (cg) "Why get all these likable veteran actors together if you're just going to go through the motions?" (Read the full review...) 757 words, 08/13/10 Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: MODERATE "...a throwback to '80s run-and-gun action... as timeless as the reptilian brain -- and if 'The Expendables' is no classic, for about 20 minutes, it blowed up real good." (Read the full review...) 748 words, 08/11/10 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: MODERATE (cg) "...yawningly snaps into place as yet another series of explosions that are dressed up with no place to blow." (Read the full review...) 593 words, 08/13/10 Stephen Cole, Toronto Globe & Mail: MODERATE (cg) "...what our heroes really want to do is beat their girlfriends' tormentors to a fine spray... After that - vroom - it's back to the clubhouse to play with more toys." (Read the full review...) 582 words, 08/13/10 Josep Parera, La Opinion: GOOD (cg) "...no hay héroes del género con más carisma que el trío de estrellas protagonistas de filmes de los años 80 tan recordados como 'Predator', 'Die Hard' o 'Rambo.' " (Read the full review...) 420 words, 08/13/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "People who liked this sort of thing in 1986 will get the warm fuzzies. Everyone else will be trying to digest a big ol' slab of cheese." (Read the full review...) 211 words, 08/12/10
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...designed to leave filmgoers feeling not so much pumped as pummeled into submission, grateful for having survived an all-out assault on their senses..." (Read the full review...) 552 words, 08/13/10 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: MODERATE (cg) "A towering corned-beef special of a movie... And then the governor of California, yup, Arnold Schwarzenegger, swaggers in. Stallone! Willis! Schwarzenegger!" (Read the full review...) 378 words, 08/13/10 Mick LaSalle, Houston Chronicle: MODERATE (cg) "...features a rogue's gallery of tired action stars who, when thrown together, suddenly hold the promise of a good time. For a while, it lives up to that promise, too -- then the story kicks in..." (Read the full review...) 633 words, 08/13/10 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: MODERATE (cg) "...a gonzo action film from a guy who has forgotten more about making action films than most of the filmmakers who followed him.... disposable..." (Read the full review...) 519 words, 08/13/10 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: WEAK (cg) "Sure, it's fun, after a fashion, to see them all in the same place, kicking and creaking. But that's about all it is.... an excuse to watch these guys echo their on-screen glory days." (Read the full review...) 575 words, 08/13/10 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: VERY GOOD (cg) "It's reprehensible. It's stoopid violent. It's a lot of unholy fun." (Read the full review...) 697 words, 08/13/10 Stephen Whitty, Cleveland Plain-Dealer: GOOD (cg) "...a fun ride if you forget the script." (Read the full review...) 481 words, 08/13/10 John Hartl, Seattle Times: MODERATE (cg) "Heavy on action, testosterone, brutality." (Read the full review...) 480 words, 08/13/10 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: FAIR (cg) "...utterly disposable.... the point is the action, and Stallone is a terrible action director. Sequences are visually incoherent, chopped-up, sloppy, vague." (Read the full review...) 295 words, 08/13/10 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: MODERATE (cg) "...overkill. In a good way, if good can be defined as 103 minutes of body-gnarling violence and macho posturing, each gratuitous to a grindhouse degree." (Read the full review...) 578 words, 08/14/10 Adam Graham, Detroit News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...has more muscles on screen than any film this side of a bodybuilding documentary.... It's like the best summer action movie of 1987." (Read the full review...) 344 words, 08/13/10 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: WEAK (cg) "...more fun to think about as a concept than it is to sit through - yet another reminder that the cinematic legacy of the '80s was, in large part, dreck." (Read the full review...) 632 words, 08/13/10
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: MODERATE "...a throwback to '80s run-and-gun action... as timeless as the reptilian brain -- and if 'The Expendables' is no classic, for about 20 minutes, it blowed up real good." (Read the full review...) 748 words, 08/11/10 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: POOR (cg) "I don't want to give away any of the surprises, but -- well, there are no surprises. The story is a pile of clichés, yet somehow it also makes no sense." (Read the full review...) 164 words, 08/12/10 Nathan Rabin, AV Club: VERY GOOD (cg) "...exactly what its audience wants and expects: big, dumb, campy fun so deliriously, comically macho, it's remarkable that no one in the cast died of testosterone poisoning." (Read the full review...) 349 words, 08/12/10 William Goss, Cinematical: MODERATE "...not directed with any particular verve or wit by Stallone himself, but still satisfactory of the lowest common denominators and the highest possible decibel levels." (Read the full review...) 743 words, 08/12/10 Lauren Wissot, Slant: WEAK (cg) "...the latest vanity project from the youth-obsessed Sylvester Stallone.... in dire need of less 'Rambo' firepower and more of' 'Rocky's' sweet-science finesse." (Read the full review...) 524 words, 08/05/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: WEAK (cg) "People who liked this sort of thing in 1986 will get the warm fuzzies. Everyone else will be trying to digest a big ol' slab of cheese." (Read the full review...) 211 words, 08/12/10 Curt Holman, Atlanta Creative Loafing: WEAK (cg) "...turn your suspension of disbelief on high, check all notions of depth and story at the door and just sit back and enjoy the explosive, testosterone-fueled ride..." (Read the full review...) 883 words, 08/12/10 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: FAIR (cg) "It's a good thing you don't really need to 'understand' the action, as in just whose head is getting busted by just which mercenary at any given time, because you won't." (Read the full review...) 751 words, 08/11/10
A.O. Scott, New York Times: WEAK "...might more aptly be described as Bad Kurosawa, Bad Peckinpah or Bad Leone. Which might be a way of saying that it's better-than-average Stallone." (Read the full review...) 895 words, 08/13/10 Anthony Lane, New Yorker: POOR "...savage yet inert, and breathtakingly sleazy in its lack of imagination.... 'The Expendables' is not fit to touch the holster of 'The Wild Bunch'..." (Read the full review...) 281 words, 08/09/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: FAIR "If you don't want to go, no review can change your mind. Certainly not this one." (Read the full review...) 625 words, 08/13/10 Michael Joshua Rowin, Salon: WEAK "...one feels not a little sadness for these preening he-men and their once culturally relevant dreams of big-screen glory. The film might be disingenuous, but at least the melancholy is real." (Read the full review...) 1,317 words, 08/13/10
Peter Debruge, Daily Variety: POOR "A hot mess... a nearly incoherent all-stars-on-deck actioner... take the cast away, and there's not much more here than the straight-to-DVD schlock..." (Read the full review...) 1,062 words, 08/04/10 Sheri Linden, Hollywood Reporter: GOOD "An effective mix of lean and over-the-top... often ridiculous, but it achieves the immediacy of a graphic novel without the overdone mythology." (Read the full review...) 724 words, 08/04/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: FAIR "If you don't want to go, no review can change your mind. Certainly not this one." (Read the full review...) 625 words, 08/13/10 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: MODERATE (cg) "...not only dispensable but utterly disposable.... a downright schlocky and cheesy flick that would have been straight-to-DVD item." (Read the full review...) 1,183 words, 08/04/10 A.O. Scott, New York Times: WEAK "...might more aptly be described as Bad Kurosawa, Bad Peckinpah or Bad Leone. Which might be a way of saying that it's better-than-average Stallone." (Read the full review...) 895 words, 08/13/10
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