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The Expendables

  • 20102010
  • RR
  • 1h 43m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
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Dolph Lundgren, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Steve Austin, Terry Crews, and Randy Couture in The Expendables (2010)
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A CIA operative hires a team of mercenaries to eliminate a Latin dictator and a renegade CIA agent.A CIA operative hires a team of mercenaries to eliminate a Latin dictator and a renegade CIA agent.A CIA operative hires a team of mercenaries to eliminate a Latin dictator and a renegade CIA agent.
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
344K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
1,550
182
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    • Director
      • Sylvester Stallone
    • Writers
      • Dave Callaham(screenplay)
      • Sylvester Stallone(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Sylvester Stallone
      • Jason Statham
      • Jet Li
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Sylvester Stallone
    • Writers
      • Dave Callaham(screenplay)
      • Sylvester Stallone(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Sylvester Stallone
      • Jason Statham
      • Jet Li
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 802User reviews
    • 431Critic reviews
    • 45Metascore
    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 5 nominations

    Videos11

    The Expendables
    Trailer 1:01
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    The Expendables: Final Theatrical Trailer
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    The Expendables: Sneak Peek
    Trailer 0:46
    The Expendables: Sneak Peek
    The Expendables
    Trailer 2:35
    The Expendables
    The Expendables: "Basketball Fight"
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    The Expendables: "Basketball Fight"
    The Expendables: "Smaller"
    Clip 0:49
    The Expendables: "Smaller"
    The Expendables: "Boat Gunfight"
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    The Expendables: "Boat Gunfight"
    The Expendables
    Interview 0:25
    The Expendables
    The Expendables
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    The Expendables
    The Expendables
    Interview 0:54
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    Photos506

    Eric Roberts and Steve Austin in The Expendables (2010)
    Eric Roberts, Steve Austin, Gary Daniels, David Zayas, Ronn Surels, David Joseph Martinez, and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira in The Expendables (2010)
    Sylvester Stallone and Giselle Itié in The Expendables (2010)
    Sylvester Stallone and Jeffrey L. Kimball in The Expendables (2010)
    Jason Statham in The Expendables (2010)
    Jet Li in The Expendables (2010)
    Dolph Lundgren, Sylvester Stallone, and Jet Li in The Expendables (2010)
    Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, and Randy Couture in The Expendables (2010)
    The Expendables (2010)
    The Expendables (2010)
    Eric Roberts and Steve Austin in The Expendables (2010)
    Sylvester Stallone in The Expendables (2010)

    Top cast

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    Sylvester Stallone
    Sylvester Stallone
    • Barney Ross
    Jason Statham
    Jason Statham
    • Lee Christmas
    Jet Li
    Jet Li
    • Yin Yang
    Dolph Lundgren
    Dolph Lundgren
    • Gunner Jensen
    Eric Roberts
    Eric Roberts
    • James Munroe
    Randy Couture
    Randy Couture
    • Toll Road
    Steve Austin
    Steve Austin
    • Paine
    David Zayas
    David Zayas
    • General Garza
    Giselle Itié
    Giselle Itié
    • Sandra
    Charisma Carpenter
    Charisma Carpenter
    • Lacy
    Gary Daniels
    Gary Daniels
    • The Brit
    Terry Crews
    Terry Crews
    • Hale Caesar
    Mickey Rourke
    Mickey Rourke
    • Tool
    Hank Amos
    Hank Amos
    • Paul
    Amin Joseph
    Amin Joseph
    • Pirate Leader
    Grifon Aldren
    Grifon Aldren
    • Tall Pirate
    • (as Senyo Amoaku)
    Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
    • Garza's Bodyguard #1
    Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
    • Garza's Bodyguard #2
    • Director
      • Sylvester Stallone
    • Writers
      • Dave Callaham(screenplay) (story)
      • Sylvester Stallone(screenplay)
    • All cast & crew
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Sylvester Stallone sustained fourteen injuries making this movie, including breaking a tooth, rupturing his ankle, and getting a hairline fracture in his neck that required the surgical insertion of a metal plate. He also had bronchitis and shingles during the shoot.
    • Goofs
      Several problems with the Fly & Die scene: Christmas turns left and fires the flare slightly out from the plane, but in the reverse shot the flare is coming from the right side of the plane. A flare is slower than the plane, meaning that firing it backwards would still make it fly in the direction of the plane, only slower. The flare passes through the cloud of flammables, but doesn't ignite it. The explosion stops at the end of the pier for no reason, even though the highly flammable cloud extends beyond the pier all the way to the plane.
    • Quotes

      Sandra: What are your names?

      Lee Christmas: [points to himself] Buda...

      Lee Christmas: [points to Barney] ... Pest

      Sandra: Follow me, please.

      [walks away]

      Barney Ross: [slowly turns to Lee; deadpan] Buda and Pest? Nice.

    • Alternate versions
      To receive a 15 certificate the UK cinema version was cut by two seconds to remove two shots of a knife being twisted into a guard's neck. The DVD features the same print though the cut was waived for the upgraded 18 rated Blu-ray release.
    • Connections
      Featured in Breakfast: Episode dated 8 July 2010 (2010)
    • Soundtracks
      Keep Your Hands to Yourself
      Written by Dan Baird (as Daniel Baird)

      Performed by The Georgia Satellites (as Georgia Satellites)

      Courtesy of Elektra Entertainment Group

      By Arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing

    User reviews802

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    Top review
    Sliding Planes
    "Speedracer" and the "Transformer" movies, even the second "Charlie's Angels."

    These are silly or even bad films by the conventional measures. This is too. It is vapid, misogynistic and fundamentalist. I wouldn't recommend that anyone go unless they know themselves well enough.

    But like those other movies, there is a lot of cutting edge filmmaking craft in this and I enjoyed it for that reason alone. I think there must be some separation from Sly the image and Sly the filmmaker. I surely — for example — admire the effectiveness of cable TeeVee demagogues at the same time I find the effect vile.

    There are three notable things.

    There is a neo-Kurosawan notion of planes, even in the fight scenes. Here is a sophisticated example: The film starts with Sly checking out the mission and deciding to not follow through, abandoning a woman to rape and torture (torture by the way by waterboarding). As in all his combat movies there is a scene where he pensively encounters his conscience and decides to do the right thing, turning into a killing machine for justice. The setup has Micky Roarke in the close foreground giving a story about how he is cursed by not having saved the life of a woman. (What he is doing while giving the speech is cool. The speech itself is pure formula, but the fact that he is painting flowers on an old guitar for a woman who has left him is sweet. He plans to smash the guitar when finished.)

    During the scene, Sly is in the background out of focus. This is not the way Akira would do it: he would and back and use a telephoto so both would be in focus. Welles talked about compositing two shots with multiple focal points. But here Sly is blurry; he is further away than he would be in reality. We shift to a closeup of Sly as he meets himself and comes to his decision. It is a closeup. His face fills the screen, but he is still out of focus. What they did was crop the shot to zoom in. It takes a craftsman to even think of this and the cinematic effect it gives. And how it mitigates the worst part of any Stallone movie, that turning point, because he just cannot act. So the camera does it for him by setting planes.

    Throughout, we have muted colors, lots of shadows that swallow the scene with piercing lights. This not only makes the thing Eastwood-moody, it allows for strobes and shadows to animate the battle scenes. They are done well if you can allow for the macho silliness and magical powers.

    And for every key sequence of scenes, we have a sliding three dimensional camera. Christopher Doyle has changed the world of the eye, bless him. There is a seaplane that glides and swoops like seaplanes do. The camera emulates these movements after showing them to us, and continues throughout much of the movie.

    Bruce and Arnie make fools of themselves.

    Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.
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    • Aug 19, 2010

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    FAQ7

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • August 13, 2010 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • Bulgaria
      • Spain
      • Germany
    • Official sites
      • Facebook
      • Instagram
    • Languages
      • English
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Biệt Đội Đánh Thuê
    • Filming locations
      • Brazil
    • Production companies
      • Millennium Films
      • Millennium Films
      • Nu Image Entertainment GmbH
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $80,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $103,068,524
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $34,825,135
      • Aug 15, 2010
    • Gross worldwide
      • $274,470,394
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 43 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
      • DTS
      • SDDS
      • Dolby Atmos
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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