The Expendables 2 (2012)

Mr. Church reunites the Expendables for what should be an easy paycheck, but when one of their men is murdered on the job, their quest for revenge puts them deep in enemy territory and up against an unexpected threat.

Director:

Simon West

Writers:

Richard Wenk (screenplay), Sylvester Stallone (screenplay),

Stars:

Sylvester Stallone, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Randy Couture

3 wins & 3 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Sylvester Stallone	...	Barney Ross
Jason Statham	...	Lee Christmas
Jet Li	...	Yin Yang
Dolph Lundgren	...	Gunnar Jensen
Chuck Norris	...	Booker
Jean-Claude Van Damme	...	Vilain
Bruce Willis	...	Church
Arnold Schwarzenegger	...	Trench
Terry Crews	...	Hale Caesar
Randy Couture	...	Toll Road
Liam Hemsworth	...	Billy The Kid
Scott Adkins	...	Hector
Nan Yu	...	Maggie
Amanda Ooms	...	Pilar
Charisma Carpenter	...	Lacy

Storyline

Barney Ross is approached by CIA man Church, who wants him and his guns for hire to go to the former Soviet Union to retrieve something that was on a plane that crashed. Church doesn't tell him what he is getting. And Church sends a woman, Maggie with him to make sure he gets it. They find the plane and get the thing but some men take one of Barney's people hostage and the leader tells him to give him what they got or he'll kill his hostage. The give it to him but he kills his hostage anyway. Barney asks Maggie what was so important about that thing. She says that it showed the location of a Russian plutonium storage mine. Barney decides to track the man down and deal with him. They track them down and discover that the man they seek is Vilain who leads a group known as The Sangs and that they have taken all the men from the surrounding villages to work the mine.

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Plot Keywords:

church | hostage | revenge | mine | plutonium | 

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Taglines:

Back for War.

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong bloody violence throughout

Details

Official Sites:

Lionsgate [United States] Official Facebook

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

17 August 2012 (USA)

Also Known As:

Los indestructibles 2

Filming Locations:

Vitosha, Bulgaria

Box Office

Budget:

$92,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$28,591,370 (USA) (17 August 2012)

Gross:

$85,017,401 (USA) (16 November 2012)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Millennium Films, Nu Image Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

103 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital Datasat

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Stallone's character is named Barney Ross in memory of decorated WWII hero and World Lightweight, Light Welterweight, and Welterweight Boxing Champion, Barney Ross (i.e. three-divisional champion).

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Goofs

A US Postal Service mail drop-box on the "New York" Soviet training grounds has the Post Office logo adopted in 1993, which is post-Cold War.

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Quotes

Lee Christmas: What's the plan?
Barney Ross: Track him, find him, kill him.

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Crazy Credits

The credits show images of the actors. When each image appears the skull shows first then the rest of the actors image fades in. When 'Arnold Schwarzenegger' (qv)'s image appears the top right hand side of his face is last to disappear and there is a light in his eye. Referencing the poster for The Terminator where you can see the metal skull and glowing red eye.

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Connections

References Dark Angel (1990)

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Soundtracks

"Groovin"
Written by Felix Cavaliere, Edward Brigati
Performed by Felix Cavaliere

User Reviews

ATTENTION, can somebody please claim the body of the pg-13 action movie, its dead, thank you.

What we have here is an almost contemptuous lack of respect for property and human life. But, when that human life is vile, murderous, plutonium pilfering dirtballs, then its time chop, break, snap, blast, liquify, incinerate and decapitate (repeat).

There's very little point in going into a great deal of explanation of what makes this so worth a trip down to your local cinema. Suffice to say Sylvester Stallone has once again saved action movies and put the meat back on the bone.

Here he is aided and abetted by messrs Schwarzenegger, Willis, Norris, Van Damme, Statham, Li, Lundgren, Crews, Couture, who all dive into the proceedings with an enthusiastic amount of esprit de corps, taking the carnage to a hitherto undiscovered level.

This is an action movie with both feet planted firmly in the 80's and there nothing wrong with that one iota. The guys banter, crack jokes, shoot and cause things to blow up, the bad guys are hissable, murderous wretches to a man and are blown up.

Everybody is clearly having a blast, so in translation, so do you, of particular note, Jean Claude Van Damme provides a standout performance as sneery and arrogant Jean Villain.

If you like proper action movies i would be bewildered if you didn't enjoy this. Sly, you did it again, you are without a shadow of doubt "the man".

If they can deliver Eastwood, Ford, Cage, Snipes, Russell, Biehn, Weathers and T for the next one, then my money is already spent.