The Expendables (2010) movie poster

The Expendables (2010)

"Choose your weapon."
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👍 85%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 43%
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Runtime
1h 43m
Rated
R
Country
United States of America, Bulgaria, Germany
Language
English
TMDB Rating
6.2/10 (8,184 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
41%
Metacritic
45

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
Eric Roberts as James Monroe · 68% avg
Randy Couture as Toll Road · 68% avg
Steve Austin as Paine
David Zayas as General Garza · 70% avg

Is The Expendables good?

Yes. 85% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 43%, but audiences disagreed.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#255 / 2223 · Thriller
Rank in its year
#26 / 238 · 2010
Rank among its director's films

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

Overview

Barney Ross leads a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, a martial arts expert Yin Yang, heavy weapons specialist Hale Caesar, demolitionist Toll Road, and a loose-cannon sniper Gunner Jensen. When the group is commissioned by the mysterious Mr. Church to assassinate the dictator of a small South American island, Barney and Lee visit the remote locale to scout out their opposition and discover the true nature of the conflict engulfing the city. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

The Expendables is a 2010 American action film directed by and starring Sylvester Stallone, assembling the most impressive collection of action stars ever gathered in a single film. Stallone leads a team of elite mercenaries — including Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, and Terry Crews — who are hired to overthrow a dictator on a small South American island. The mission becomes personal when they discover the true power behind the regime is a rogue CIA operative played by Eric Roberts, and Stallone's Barney Ross must decide whether the payday is worth the risk.

The Expendables was conceived as a celebration of the practical-stunts, no-CGI action filmmaking tradition, and the novelty of seeing Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Bruce Willis share screen time — even briefly, in a church meeting scene — was a cinematic event for action fans. The film earned $274 million worldwide on a $80 million budget and spawned a franchise that continued adding action legends in subsequent entries.

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