The Expendables 2 (2012)

The producers of The Expendables 2 have done the seemingly impossible.  They have made a movie that is even worse than the original The Expendables.  And the sequel was worse than the original despite the addition of Chuck Norris to the cast.  This movie was nearly unbearable with all too many former action stars that you hardly care about anymore doing things that just simply are not believable.  The plot was stupid in the extreme and things got to the point where you hardly knew just what was supposed to be going on.

At the beginning of this movie, some of the Expendables mercenary outfit  execute an operation designed to free an allegedly innocent man named Trench (Arnold Schwarzenegger) from a Nepalese prison.  Trench is a haggard looking character who turns out to be both extremely dangerous and anything but innocent.  After this mission, Mr. Church (Bruce Willis) informs the Expendables theat they need to seek revenge for a fallen compatriot.

So they go to Russia to keep him from getting Russian nukes to sell on the open market. Believe me, I’m making it sound better than it is. Far better. So much action, so boring and stupid. And the addition of Chuck Norris does not make it any better.

When things go wrong, the Expendables are compelled to seek revenge in hostile territory, where the odds are stacked against them. Hell-bent on payback, the crew cuts a swath of destruction through opposing forces, wreaking havoc and shutting down an unexpected threat in the nick of time - five tons of weapons-grade plutonium, more than enough to change the balance of power in the world. But that's nothing compared to the justice they serve against the villainous adversary they seek revenge from.

From this point on, The Expendables 2 becomes nothing more than an exercise in all too predictable action filmmaking.  There are ony two things that are surprising about this flick.  First off, just how boring a movie can be when there is so much death, explosions and shooting going on.  The second is just how boring and confusing that a movie can get to be at the same time.

The Expendables 2 is a horrible excuse in movie making.  It is an exercise in highly predictable paint by the numbers film making.  The actors are all over the hill losers who are in this particular flick strictly for the paycheck.  The plot, along with the screenplay, was stupid in the extreme.  The production values were simply not there.  To put things mildly, The Expendables 2 is a movie that you need to avoid like the plague.