![]() ![]() And then he says it:Ī-A-B-B-C-C-A-A-D? That's not a limerick, you idiot. He takes a deep breath, sucking in inspiration from all around him. Jason Statham is having a knife-throwing contest with Mickey Rourke. Because this, after all the quips and explosions and death, is how The Expendables ends. Sylvester Stallone is clearly a man of three strong opinions: the opinion that all films would be better if they ended with a limerick the opinion that the limerick's traditional A-A-B-B-A rhyme scheme is fundamentally flawed and the opinion that all poems would be better if they ended with the words "Oh yeah". ![]() No real discussion of The Expendables would be complete without a few words about its closing lines. Stallone and Mickey Rourke in The Expendables Mickey Rourke gets a borderline incomprehensible monologue about a suicide he could have prevented. ![]() Stallone gets to run through the jungle with a machine gun again. The Expendables is a surprisingly democratic film, too. It's charming, and then it gets tiresome, and by the end it just about makes it all the way back around to charming again. Watching The Expendables is like listening to an army of Vince Vaughns trying to recite a three-week-old copy of Nuts after staying awake for 72 hours. And between all the murdering? Mindless yammer. Personally I think things peak with the very first death of the film, when a Somali pirate explodes and covers an entire interior with his guts, but you may think otherwise. The casual loss of life in this film is staggering. If that's why you're watching The Expendables again, you're not going to be disappointed. They watch it to see all their old favourites scream back onto the big screen, leaving as many dents in it as they can. But that's not why anyone watches The Expendables. It's light on characterisation and subtext. There's a baddie on an island, so the goodies go and kill him. Sylvester Stallone in The Expendables.Īdmittedly, the plot of The Expendables is painfully slight. ![]()
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