The expendables - 2010

I like it. It's just one of those big toys, you know, lots of action and lots of famous faces all together for 80s' action movies nostalgic. It's fun, and there's even a bit of plot ! Barney Ross is the leader of The Expendables , a team of mercenaries. He's offered a job by Mr Church (Bruce Willis) false name of a Cia man who doesn't want his real name involved . Church offers the job to another team of merceraries, but apparently their leader Trench (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is too busy at the moment, which is of course perfectly understandable if you think that he was actually busy being the governor of California...
The job consists into going to a certain island and kill the dictator there. Barney and Lee Christmas (Jason Statham) go to take a look at the situation, meet local rebel Sandra, who is the daughter of the General, the dictator, and strongly opposing him. They also realise that it's not just him, most danger comes from an ex cia man, Munroe (Eric Roberts) and after making quite a mess shooting their way out, Sandra refuses to go with them to safety and stays on the island. Worried about her, Barney decides to go back with his full team : Yang (Jet Li), Toll Road (Randy Couture) and Caesar (Terry Crews). Gunner (Dolph Lundgren) was a member of the team but is left behind because he's crazy and Barney doesn't want him, so Gunner joins Munroe against them. Barney makes his decision to go back after Tool (Mickey Rourke) tells him a story of how he once saw a woman about to commit suicide and he walked away. Toll tells him that after killing so many people mayne if he had saved that woman he might have saved a part of his soul, but he didn't and now he's like empty. Barney wants to save Sandra, and the team goes back to the island with him.
There's lots of shooting, heavy shooting, and explosions, and all the bad guys are killed.  Gunner appears to be dead, but at the very end we see he's still alive, and back with them.
They save Sandra, even when it seemed a risk to wait Barney cared mostly about saving her. Before leaving, Barney gives her money to help her island, she gives him a hug and they leave. I was so glad there was nothing romantic about him wanting to help her, no kisses, just a grateful hug that tells more , much more.
Christmas is the only one with a romantic interest, but it's home. Lacy (Charisma Carpenter) is his girlfriend, but he never told her his job, he just thinks that going to her any time he can is enough, and he's really pissed off when he shows at her door unannounced and finds another man there, but later he discovers that he beated her, so he cleared things with the guy (beating him up a bit...) and then tells her she should have waited for him. Well, maybe she didn't know there was something worth waiting, he doesn't exactly describes a normal relationship.
This is just another action movie, with the difference of different action-faces together: Stallone, Statham , Li,  Lundgren on the same team. And as I said I love the fact that there is no romantic crap at the end of it. I hate where they have characters kiss and fall in love in the middle of the shootings. That is always so not-love and completely out of place.

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