The Expendables 2 (2012) movie poster

The Expendables 2 (2012)

"Back for War."
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👍 85%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 60%
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Runtime
1h 43m
Rated
R
Country
United States of America, Bulgaria, Germany
Language
English
TMDB Rating
6.3/10 (7,078 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
68%
Metacritic
51

Cast

Sylvester Stallone as Barney Ross · 76% avg
Jason Statham as Lee Christmas · 73% avg
Jet Li as Yin Yang · 78% avg
Dolph Lundgren as Gunner Jensen · 72% avg
Chuck Norris as Booker · 70% avg
Jean-Claude Van Damme as Jean Vilain · 69% avg
Bruce Willis as Church · 69% avg
Arnold Schwarzenegger as Trench · 76% avg

Is The Expendables 2 good?

Yes. 85% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 60%, but audiences disagreed.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#325 / 1971 · Action
Rank in its year
#12 / 225 · 2012
Rank among its director's films
#1 / 8 · Simon West

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

Mr. Church reunites the Expendables for what should be an easy paycheck, but when one of their men is murdered on the job, their quest for revenge puts them deep in enemy territory and up against an unexpected threat. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

The Expendables 2 is a 2012 American action film directed by Simon West. Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, and Terry Crews return alongside newcomers Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme as the villain, and expanded roles for Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis. The team is tasked with recovering a safe containing a map to abandoned Soviet plutonium from a crashed plane in Albania, but the mission goes wrong when Jean-Claude Van Damme's Vilain kills one of their own and steals the map, triggering a revenge mission across Eastern Europe.

Van Damme's villain brought genuine menace and martial arts credibility. The sequel leaned more heavily into self-referential humor, with the action legends quoting each other's famous lines. The Expendables 2 earned $305 million worldwide on a $100 million budget.

The film was praised for its entertaining execution of its genre formula.

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