The Expendables 2

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The Expendables 2

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Released Aug 17, 2012

1h 43m

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Mystery & Thriller

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Mercenary leader Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone), Lee Christmas (Jason Statham) and the rest of the Expendables team reunite when Mr. Church (Bruce Willis) hires them for a seemingly easy job. But things go terribly wrong, compelling the mercenaries to seek revenge for a comrade's murder. With the odds against them, Barney and his team are hell-bent on payback and cut a path of destruction through opposing forces, only to encounter an unexpected threat: six pounds of weapons-grade plutonium.

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Critics Consensus

Taut, violent, and suitably self-deprecating, The Expendables 2 gives classic action fans everything they can reasonably expect from a star-studded shoot-'em-up -- for better and for worse.

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Paul Byrnes

Sydney Morning Herald

The film thunders through its paces, under the energetic direction of Simon West.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 30, 2012

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Marc Savlov

Austin Chronicle

Why make a new mediocrity when the old ones are still so much more fun to watch?

Rated: 2/5

Aug 24, 2012

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Nell Minow

Beliefnet

The over-the-hill gang engages in various shoot-outs punctuated by lame wisecracks that refer to their iconic roles. Guess whether someone says, "I'll be back."

Rated: B-

Aug 23, 2012

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

I won’t ruin the Chuck Norris “fact” used in the film, but it provides one of the few genuine laughs, and it’s certainly better than the forced wisecracks from Stallone, Willis, and Schwarzenegger.

Rated: 2/4

Sep 27, 2023

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Sean Axmaker

Stream on Demand

Think of it as a B-movie triple feature edited into a single movie, all firepower and mayhem with nostalgia and tough-guy quips stirred through.

Apr 8, 2023

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Van Damme's villain, silly as his character may be, makes this movie more watchable than it has any right to be.

Rated: 2.5/4

Oct 3, 2022

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Lay Kham

The best out of all the Expendables

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/02/24

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No-one 1

The best of the franchise, it starts strong with epic action with Stallone gifting us some wishes like watching him using a finger like a gun to kill a bunch of people and it continues up to the skies with a bunch of great action figures joining the mission, showing us their best skills, and personal touches like Chuck Norris, or Bruce Willis among others. Van damme makes an Oscar playing that villain, using all his personal touches from other movies toguether to create something unique that can not be replace by any other actor. Staham is behind Stallone showing at any chance why he is the partner of stallone on this spectacular action film. testosterone over 9.000!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/15/25

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Giacomo P

The Expendables 2 is another fantastic shooting film and perhaps slightly better than the 1st chapter, here we see more characters and as usual the legendary Jason Statham, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger cannot be missing and here too the 3 of them do a great job work, very good. the CGI here too is spectacular and the villain of the film is much better than the one in the 1st chapter and the way he is killed is truly macabre, I close this review by saying that The Expendables 2 is a really good shooting film and slightly better than the 1st and 70% deserve to reach it, see you next time.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/29/24

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Nick R

Better in some ways, but also worse with it's dumb one-liners.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

11/20/24

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Jonathan O

This is the most better sequel and highly entertaining than the first one and some of the killings are cgi but Jean Claude Van Damme is really having awesome time playing a coolest chill villain and a surprise cast Chuck Norris who only appears for some scenes and some cgi effects but it is better that you don't need to watch 3 and 4th expendables franchise.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

10/22/24

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Michael P

With how entertaining, funny, and the cast blowing the scripts, (literally) I can say this was a great action movie watch

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

09/23/24

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Synopsis

Mercenary leader Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone), Lee Christmas (Jason Statham) and the rest of the Expendables team reunite when Mr. Church (Bruce Willis) hires them for a seemingly easy job. But things go terribly wrong, compelling the mercenaries to seek revenge for a comrade's murder. With the odds against them, Barney and his team are hell-bent on payback and cut a path of destruction through opposing forces, only to encounter an unexpected threat: six pounds of weapons-grade plutonium.

Director: Simon West
Producer: Les Weldon, Danny Lerner, Kevin King Templeton, Avi Lerner
Screenwriter: Richard Wenk, Sylvester Stallone
Distributor: Lionsgate Films
Production Co: Lionsgate, Nu Image, Le Vision Pictures, Millennium Films, Splendid Film
Rating: R (Strong Bloody Violence)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 17, 2012, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 20, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $85.0M
Runtime: 1h 43m
Sound Mix: Datasat, Dolby Digital

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