If you've ever seen the film Shoot Em Up (if you haven't it's worth a watch) then you know what you're in for. This sequel is a worthy addition to the 'so bad it's freakin awesome' category of film.
There's not a lot in the way of plot but the story is essentially that Church (Bruce Willis) feels he is owed a favour by Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) for events of the first movie and calls upon him and his comrades to extract something from a safe in a fallen plane in the old Soviet Union.
When one of his own is killed retrieving the package, which is taken by the terribly named Jean Villain (Jean Claude Van Damme), Ross vows revenge and sets out after the bad guy.
The great thing about these Expendables movies is that it brings together all the great 80s/early 90s action stars that you would have never got in the same film 20 years ago: the likes of Stallone, Willis, Schwarzenegger, Statham, Norris, Li, Van Damme, Lundgren etc.
It'd be interesting to know what the body count was in the movie, I reckon it'd be close to a record!
One of the stand out performers though, was the youngest cast member Liam Hemsworth who plays Billy 'The Kid'. He looks like more of an 'actor' than his brother (Chris, aka Thor) rather than an action star and time, I guess, will tell.
On the score of pure entertainment, you've got say this is a four-star film.
The fight scene between Stallone and Van Damme is pretty funny and the latter's accent is hilarious as well.
But we'll bring it down a notch because it is just so ridiculous, over the top, and funny (with some wickedly funny one-liners) and go with a 7 out of 10.
Let's hope if they do a third film they can continue along the same lines, because the sequel is one of those rare times when it's actually better than the original.
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