Toilet Review: Another by the books action movie, with more than one action movie star.
That description there? The one you just read? That’s the movie. There is nothing more to it than that. I tried to find more meaning, a deeper way of looking at it, but nope. It’s exactly what I described. Throw in some 1970’s old school action violence, some 1980’s action stars and some 1990’s plot lines and you get “The Expendables”.
Sylvester Stallone directs and stars in this movie as head of a mercenary group that is hired by the mysterious Mr. Church to investigate a military dictatorship on the fictional island of Vilena. Of course, the mission is not straight forward and soon the boys find themselves in a whole heap of trouble.
In saying that, this movie is infinitely better than anything I have seen from Michael Bay, the current King of Action movies. The main characters were a little bit fleshed out and we got to see relationships, such as Lee’s relationship with his girlfriend and how this is effected by the work he does. Sure it’s a brief snippet, but hey, it’s more than we have seen from any of the Michael Bay movies.
This is the sort of movie that will be the day after Christmas, when everyone is too stuffed to change the channel. It’l be the 9.00 pm movie and will be played year after year after year until people are sick of it. As my husband says, you gotta think with your lower brain, not your higher one, to really enjoy this movie.
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