The Expendables

Director : Silverster Stallone

Characters : Silverster Stallone , Arnold
Schwarzenegger , Dolph Lundgren , Jason
Statham , Eric Roberts , Jet Li , Bruce Wilis and
Steve Austin .
Producer : Kevin King, Avi Lerner, John
Thompson, Kevin King Templeton, Les
Weldon
Story : The Expendables is a hard-hitting
action/thriller about a group of mercenaries hired to
infiltrate a South American country and overthrow its
ruthless dictator.

Once the mission begins, the men realize things arent

quite as they appear, finding themselves caught in a
dangerous web of deceit and betrayal. With their mission
thwarted and an innocent life in danger, the men struggle
with an even tougher challenge one that threatens to
destroy this band of brothers.

Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) is a man with nothing to

lose. Fearless and void of emotion, he is the leader, the
sage and the strategist of this tight-knit band of men who
live on the fringe. His only attachment is to his pickup
truck, his seaplane and his team of loyal modern-day
warriors. His is a true cynic who describes what he does
as removing those hard to get at stains.

The team behind him is made up of Lee Christmas (Jason

Statham), former SAS and a savant with anything that
has a blade; Yin Yang (Jet Li), a master at close-quarter
combat; Hale Caesar (Terry Crews), who has known
Barney for ten years and is a long-barrel weapons
specialist; Toll Road (Randy Couture), a skilled
demolitions expert and considered the intellect of the
group; and Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren), a combat
veteran and an expert in precision sniping who struggles
with his own demons.

User Review : Barney Ross has developed a conscience

and it may be the death of him. Following your conscience leads
to good things, if your mother is to be trusted, but Barney's world
is a little different than most. He's a high risk, high powered
mercenary, you see, the leader of a group known as The
Expendables - soldiers of fortune who travel the world doing the
jobs that nobody else is willing to do. And when Barney
experiences a twinge of conscience the end result is not more
open books or shopping fair trade, it's walking into a firefight in
which his team is hugely outnumbered and outgunned, all for the
sake of a girl.

The third picture to rise from Sylvester Stallone's late-period

career comeback, The Expendables is probably the most
anticipated of the lot. While Rambo and Rocky Balboa were
deliberate bookends to the most iconic roles of his career, and
films that read surprisingly well as post-modern commentaries on
Stallone's own life and work, The Expendables finds Stallone
tapping into the 80s action aesthetic that made him a huge star in
the first place while also setting out to create an entirely new
character, an entirely new franchise. And, yes, it works.

The Expendables : The Expendables is a 2010 American

ensemble action film written by David Callaham and Sylvester
Stallone, and directed by Stallone. Filming began on March 28,
2009, in Rio de Janeiro, New Orleans, and Los Angeles, and the
film was released in theaters on August 13 in North America.
The film is about a group of elite mercenaries, tasked with a mission to overthrow
a Latin American dictator. It pays tribute to the blockbuster action films of the
1980s and early 1990s, and stars an array of action veterans from those decades,
including Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke, Jet Li, Gary Daniels, Bruce
Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger (the latter two in cameo roles, though Willis
was credited on posters and commercials), as well as more recent stars such as
Randy Couture, Jason Statham, Terry Crews, and Steve Austin.

The film received mixed reviews from critics but was very successful
commercially, opening at number one at the box office in the United States,[3] the
United Kingdom,[4] and China.[5]