Thursday, August 30, 2012

The Expendable 2 Review


          
As someone who doesn’t lives in the 80’s, I don’t grew up watching Arnold Schwarzenegger murdering a platoon of army in commando or Sylvester Stallone Rambo-ing bunch of human life with his unlimited ammo cheat. So because of that, when the first expendable came out I wasn’t excited about the movie and after I watched it the movie is not very entertaining for me. Yes, the concept is nice, gathering all the old action hero in a movie and let them blow everything on the screen but it never surpassed anything but that because I don’t find anything that surprised me in that movie. Then since the movie is actually quite popular, the plan to make the sequel is came and they promised us that it would better, bigger and manlier, even thought they actually bring one Asian girl into the team in the expendable 2.

But then something happened. Something that surprised and making me excited for it. Something that makes every head in the internet blew up because Its CHUCK NORRIS back in action. The God itself is in this movie!

this is the arm wrestling that created the universe.

For those who doesn’t understand why peoples are so excited for this particular one guy God is because he is the only entity in this world that could throw a boomerang that will never come back. why you asked? because the boomerang is way too scared to come back to him! or if you wonder why superman wear an underpants outside of his pants? its because he once lose a bet in a fight with CHUCK NORRIS! If you don't believe me you could always see the testimony of every eyewitnesses from this ChuckNorrisFact.com.

So back to the movie itself, the expendable 2 follow a bunch of mercenary starring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Staham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Liam Hemsworth, an Asian chick, 2 guys that i didn't know and they even got Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis to show up kicking some ass. This time, the team had a job to retrieve something from a crashed plane which should have been an easy job. But after they retrieved the object, the object was stolen and one their member is killed by an evil army called the Sangs that lead by a man called Villain (so much for subtlety), played by Jean-Claude Van Damme. So the team must seek Villain to take back the object and get some revenge for their late member.

The plot of the movie is...well, i think the plot is pretty much that. Someone stole something, someone killed in the process, someone want a revenge then a lot of explosion, blood and dead bodies happen. At first, i was in a wrong mindset to see this movie because i took this movie too serious, a real wrong attitude when you wanna see this movie because this movie will be downright dumb and terrible if you take it seriously. But after 20 minutes, i started to get used to the movie tone and appreciate what the movie is trying to be, a self aware action movie. I can't say a bad thing about a movie that aware that it was stupid because if i complaint that it was stupid, then i'll be the one that is actually stupid.

The actor in this movie ranged from "its good" to "all right, that was awful" but Even if all the character isn't played by good actor, i like the way they interact each other because they made me believe that they were in a team. Personally, the actor that did a good job in this movie is Van Damme, Liam Hemsworth, and of course, CHUCK NORRIS. Van Damme role as villain is cartoonishly evil but its an evil cliche delivered in a fun way that i think everyone can appreciate while Liam Hemsworth play as the new member that, SPOILER ALERT (a predictable spoiler thought) killed during the mission. he doesn't do much in this movie but his character is really likeable and he played it well. Last but not the least, CHUCK NORRIS is....he is the goddamn CHUCK NORRIS! CHUCK is now 72 years old and for CHUCK sakes he looks like he is only 40 years old compared to Arnold who looks like 80 years old. For me, personally, the highlight of this movie is CHUCK NORRIS. Because the movie is aware of his greatness, whenever CHUCK is on screen its always so fun to see him on action, doing a really badass thing  and they even pick a line from ChuckNorrisFact.com that made everyone in the theater laugh.

The core in a movie like this is the action scene and they really deliver the action here. The opening and the final scene is absolutely fun to watch with all the shooting, fighting and explosion going out everywhere. I do have some problem with the action scene where the CGI in this movie is really-really bad that i think i just watched a B-movie rather than a blockbuster movie.

 The movie is, of course, full of terrible thing like the line delivery could be really bad, the story is almost non-exist, the CGI is an eye crushing to look and sadly, Arnold is getting rusty. i couldn't blame Arnold for being rusty since he's been busy with his political career for 8 years before coming back to movie but i am sorry to say he is the worst one here. His comedic timing is kinda off and the way he deliver his famous one liner is really losing its charm. But despite every bad thing that i said about Arnold, I do hope that he will get better and be awesome again like he used to be.

Overall, this movie is dumb but a lot of fun to watch. It had flaw but it also had charm of old action no brainer movie that could give you a sense of nostalgia. I suggest watching this in the DVD is a good choice since it wasn't a must watch movie. Turn your brain off before watching, ask your best friend to come and watch it in your house with a can of beer to improve the dumb and fun effect.

And for your information, Chuck Norris isn't as awesome as the people of internet says. Every fact from the  ChuckNorrisFact.com is a straight lie. Chuck is just an ordinary human just like you and me. He didn't fight with superman or create the universe with his roundhouse kick. He is becoming the way he is now because the dramatic effect peoples give to him. If all that people said is true, then Chuck should be right behind me now, ready to slam my head into the keyboarjnjnwW23W2Eadna
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I'm sorry for my immaturity before. Every fact that stated in the ChuckNorrisFact.com is ,in fact, all true. CHUCK NORRIS is as awesome as every people said. He fought with superman and created the universe. He is the only true God. Now, if you will excuse me, i have to go to the hospital to treat my wound.

INITIAL EL MOVIE RATING:

6.5

A fun Dumb movie