I won’t ruin the Chuck Norris “fact” used in the film, but it provides one of the few genuine laughs, and it’s certainly better than the forced wisecracks from Stallone, Willis, and Schwarzenegger.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 27, 2023

Think of it as a B-movie triple feature edited into a single movie, all firepower and mayhem with nostalgia and tough-guy quips stirred through.

| Apr 8, 2023

Van Damme's villain, silly as his character may be, makes this movie more watchable than it has any right to be.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 3, 2022

Those with no connection to or interest in the 80’s action genre or the actors probably won’t connect or be interested in this picture.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 20, 2022

Give us guns, violence, and babes and you might as well bottle it as male Kryptonite or Viagra

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2022

The Expendables 2 really commits, and acquits itself admirably - in all of its nostalgic, over-the-top, preposterously silly glory.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 17, 2021

There's no denying the appeal to action fans of seeing Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, and Chuck Norris in the same scene together.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 1, 2020

One wild and crazy blast from the past.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 8, 2019

Not only is part two superior to the inaugural 2010 effort, but it's also one of the most diabolically entertaining action movies to hit cinemas this year.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 2, 2019

This isn't art, but it's a fun, entertaining popcorn-muncher.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 9, 2018

It's one big back-smacking celebration of the 1980s...

| May 14, 2018

Full Review | Jan 30, 2018

Little-known biological phenomenon: When a human body is shot, stabbed or punched really hard, it explodes like a balloon filled with ketchup. Also, heads and limbs detach with the ease of a G.I. Joe doll in the hands of a malevolent 3-year-old.

| Original Score: 3 of 5 | Jun 10, 2016

It's loud and dumb, sure. But it's affable and funny in ways the original wasn't.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 10, 2016

Of course it's garbage. But this is my favorite kind of garbage.

Full Review | May 3, 2015

This sequel knows what its audience is looking for and succeeds admirably in providing it.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 30, 2013

The movies that many of these guys made in the 1980s and '90s were hardly bulletproof, but this is a cynical exercise in settling for what is expected to be passable.

| Original Score: C- | Feb 1, 2013

At this point it's such a juvenile and boring experience with god awful writing, that it completely eliminates the fun of watching action heroes kick ass on screen.

| Jan 11, 2013

"The Expendables 2″ is just entertaining enough to permit a third film. If only these steroids-packing seniors can coordinate schedules again.

| Original Score: B | Dec 11, 2012

Enjoyable, but disappointingly tame compared to its ferocious predecessor. The Expendables 2 is disposable.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 5, 2012