The Expendables is more than just your average action movie; it is the action movie of the year uniting the grittiness and soul of the old genre with the special effects and coolness of the new genre. See it.

| Original Score: A | Sep 11, 2017

| Original Score: B | Feb 18, 2012

The rest of the mayhem is simply ultraviolent, nonstop, and numbing. Better jokes might have helped.

| Original Score: C- | Jan 3, 2011

Unnatural but kind of remarkable.

| Original Score: C | Dec 21, 2010

What we get is pure, unadulterated B-movie stuff, with an A-budget.

Full Review | Aug 26, 2010

Offers up neither clearly delineated characters nor any fundamental character of its own.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 23, 2010

The worst action film of the year, and that's saying something.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 20, 2010

In which a bunch of macho has-beens and never-weres splash down in the action pond for one last go-round.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 20, 2010

The movie struggles to find a main attraction that's worth the bullets it's printed on.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 20, 2010

For action fans raised on Commando and Cobra, the ensemble cast and '80s-style violence will be pure wish-fulfilment -- but even they could have wished for something better.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 19, 2010

If you like watching men with no necks thumping each other, this could be your Citizen Kane.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 19, 2010

A piece of sclerotic all-star machismo about as exciting as Veterans' Arm-Wrestling Night at the Hollywood Bowl.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 19, 2010

A film so unashamedly manly, it makes Fight Club look like the time they did Single Ladies on Glee.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 19, 2010

In lieu of a flurry of left hooks and roundhouse kicks, we stay safely in Stallone's comfort zone of shoot 'em ups and s--- getting blown up.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 18, 2010

Stallone's boasted that he's made the drunk uncle of all dumb action movies and in several ways he has

| Original Score: C | Aug 16, 2010

What you will find is both familiar in its contours and unique in its casting.

| Aug 13, 2010

It's not the age of the actors that makes The Expendables expendable. It's the stale storytelling.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 13, 2010

The Expendables isn't as much fun as it should be.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 13, 2010

I's a bit like a trip to the gym on a flat tire.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 13, 2010

Sylvester Stallone's gun-emptying, blade-tossing, clandestine action flick "The Expendables" is great fun. Sure, this declaration comes with caveats, but do you really need to hear them?

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 13, 2010