The Expendables - STEEL

My Rating: 5/10

Not really much i can say about this if i'm honest, i actually quite enjoyed it. In all respects it was hilarious! The action was brutal and very 80's but there's not a great deal of positives i can make.

I may as well start with the cast, the problem is it should be Epic it should be a huge mega swan song for the action hero's of the 80's you read the poster and you think wow they've gone and got Arnie, Sly, Willis, Lundgren and rourke in this! Unfortunately it doesn't point out that the only one really doing any action is stallone! Most people will go to this expected to see this fantastic ensemble cast kicking massive amounts of ass 80's style and are going to be thoroughly disappointed.

Mind lets not forget the new wave action hero's in there, Statham was in fairness not bad but when he's always in the role of the londoner it's not that hard for him. I actually also quite like Jet Li but for this film he was so under utilized no real exciting marshal arts set pieces it all felt like he was there for a few size jokes alongside lundgren. There are also some wrestlers who do a bit of wrestling on fire toward the end it's all a bit stupid really.

The plot was the same old action movie fare, something bad happens and some foreign nationals are of course responsible and this equals the all action americans getting involved and doing their bit. However the plot twist that doesn't actually happen because it's made apparent immediately is that some americans are in fact behind all this bad stuff. Unsurprisingly they've gone rouge from the CIA and apparently stone cold is proper hard.

There's a consistent supply of misfiring jokes some are appropriate given the cast but not worth the entire film for. I can't really add much more to this so i'll round up and look forward to SCOTT PILGRIM next week.

Something good:

Hilarious for all the wrong reasons

Something Bad:

Stupid, Stupid plot and misleading poster!

Worse than:

Any other film Stallone wrote

Better Than:

Piranha 3D (probably)

Overall: Don't expect too much and if you watch it watch it for the incoherence and complete idiocy of it all.

STEEL