Expendables 2: Can't Beat The Classics

Is it going to win an Oscar? Hell No. Will Stallone get that SAG award he's been dreaming of? Not a chance. Is this an enjoyable action film that keeps the excitement moving from scene to scene while producing genuine laughs as you scream, "It's the muscles from Brussels" at the screen? You bet his sweet buns it is.

The second installment of the Expendables franchise is missing a lot- critically acclaimed actors, sweeping landscape shots, slow motion walking, meaningful soliloquies, but in what it lacks there one finds a mighty treasure... genuine nostalgia. Expendables 2 does its audience the pleasure of bringing back their favorite 80s and 90s and current action stars while placing them in impossible situations that they always manage to fight their way through.

It's oddly refreshing to watch a trailer and receive exactly what it promises to deliver. Expendables 2 isn't meant to be epic, not many films are, and nor does it try to be; however it excels at doing what most franchise reboots and sequels fail at: having fun.

Overall it's a good time played to a rocking soundtrack and where else in this time are we going to be able to say, "is that Chuck Norris coming out of the fog in this abandoned Albanian town?"...