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The Expendables - An opinion

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"The boys are back in town ..." rings out from the speakers as we come out of the jam-packed cinema, still blissfully retarded smile on his face and a very good mood.
Hell Yeah, and how they are back!
One would like to get rid of something tearing, or at least your head against a concrete wall, the accumulated power. Yes, the 80s are back and resume our long-lost, Sealed CGI and political correctness, masculine instincts. What has for many years with StirbLangsam4, or even Rambo4 Shoot'em Up The Marine or sometimes more or less successfully announced, and at last the way back to the screen displayed.

Expendables is in no way a film for everyone and to evaluate possible uniform. It is not a film for troubleshooting or people with level and certainly not for the critics. It is for those with the action flick raised by a trip earlier are back. So for us, the brainwashed, lost MTV generation. This course includes in particular the fans of the big action hero who dazzled the cinema, they were forever gone long friends and a very long way together up here.
And of course, Stallone knows about and knows what he has to deliver. So it is also a film for the maker himself, who want to show they still can and it still works.

evaluated in one sentence you would say: It is a film that met expectations.
The Expendables is by no means a film with no errors, it is only one to whom you can forgive them easily.

talk through the plot is not worth mentioning, because it can be with "liberation" put together very well. He plays a South African, fictional island nation and that is good. Stallone is too good a filmmaker to to be drawn to his fire station in the moral debates of the younger, eastern hot spots. Unpleasant is because it is already obvious that Expendables bit bumpy in the plot comes along. It alternates the very fast action scenes with a few quiet moments, just connect the two, unfortunately, in clusters. Especially in the middle part there are many scenes that will explain everything from the history. Only just there to explain little, also the dialogue in these scenes revelation expected to be thin. These scenes are then braced by the sheer presence of the main characters alone. Eric Roberts is just as positively, which is in the purest "over acting" a wonderfully sleazy corporate crooks. And it would not Stallone, Mickey Rourke, which can take small movements without words for a scene in fog, the film would fall hopelessly. As expected, the athletes Couture or Austin or been sighted Jet Li little screen time and dialogue, and even that is a good thing. For their part, it is sufficient muscular and / or angry look. Nevertheless, they also get their big scenes. Stallone knows exactly what kind of people he must work out. I 'm not a fan of Jason Statham, he plays, as always, the transporter. For me the surprise of the film, Dolph Lundgren, even if they contribute to its mission to durchgeknallt limited, but he does this extremely effectively. The sole reason he moved many critics to be the sympathy points for themselves. And as if Stallone factored exactly that he is building a have a surprise in the film.

actionable It is the little, quiet scenes there are, however, that stand out, in which Stallone succeeds with few words and attitudes of the long friendship between the Expendables some sweet melancholy to leave a trace. This situation is starting already excellent Idea in itself, because it directly addresses the audience, who feel so well a kind of bond at the reunion with his hero. Women in the film world, however, no place where it took even not compulsory and completely unnecessary sex scenes to show what a "real" man. Male friendship on the other hand was in Stallone's films, instead, has always been much more in focus. And for that I am grateful.
it is however not the great heroes of Assembly, as that sells the film. It is basically a buddy movie between Stallone and Statham, the former dominated in every minute. For me, a pure Stallonefilm. The other "heroes" have at best a minor role. Only Rourke and Lundgren have rolls of them really any purpose in the film, but this is solely for the support of Stallone's character. Only Statham's character is supported by a subplot about his girlfriend, that the movie plot but basically only disturbs

section, image and sound are excellent with small swabs. The film plays with some interassenten camera angles and driving. The daily scenes the colors are comically powerful in the night covered up the other hand, black on black, which made me skeptical in the trailer, but very good work and extends as optical character through the film.
Special attention was captured the shot noise of weapons, which are also filmed optically accordingly. While this sounds trivial but makes a fetish of arms a good part of the atmosphere, where each slide movement and rotation of the drum is heard. The crash
unmelodiöse modern action movies is finally past. The soundtrack is bombastic, catchy and driving, whipped the audience involuntarily at the height of power and is comfortably far in the foreground. Needless to state here that no electronic beats, but Thin Lizzy or the CCR cycle. No surprises but just exactly what one expects.
The decor is deliberately conservative, partly elected nostalgic, from cars to aircraft and, of course, reflects as the past of the characters resist. The film could still play somewhere between 1980 and 2010. Problems are not solved with electronic spy gadgets, but by fists and deeds.
The explosions - I can not evaluate such a movie without explosions to speak - I have surprisingly little disappointed. On the one hand they lack the "impact" on the other hand, some artificial CGI effects are among them. Shock! Yeah right. Not only that, even blood and wounds occur here only as a CGI effect. Unfortunately, this also applies to many of the orgies of destruction to buildings. And you can see forever. It's not really nice if a hero dives in front of a blue screen like this, where you can see how a computer-animated collapsing stone wall. Why is the effect as cheap or even encouraged, I can not understand for the life. Especially in such important effects in an action movie that would be conventional, or at least more animated, must make.

Enough of unimportant details, we come to the interesting things last. The action itself. The Expendables is a child of modern times, one can see from the extremely fast-cut fight scenes. Unlike other films of the section is so well done that you can reasonably understand what happened, despite the often very dark atmosphere. Nevertheless, the impressions purged quickly one of time that one process can not always what you see. Especially fight when several people in several places. Especially in large, long finish, it can also come schonmal to fatigue when the conventional combat maneuvers repeated offer no new ideas. However, the fighting
act extremely powerful, there are really something on your face, what is the reason why they are effective nonetheless credible (not to be confused with realistic). The result is also relatively harmless stunts a tension that the modern approach to films, in which an attempt is simply to outdo each other with effects, not just longer arise.
And often is: Where violence does not help help more violence. By technique and virtuosity you ask here only in passing, it's always with his head against a wall. This type of body art has been lost in action movies for quite some time. All the acts will sometimes misplaced Jet Li with his fast, fiddly movements, while the Titans around him smashing the skull. But this contrast is in a key scene in the movie made fun of.
alone is struggling to see the old warhorse is basically the end of the film. The violence is depicted so exaggerated laugh that one must never arises disgust, guilt, pity or the like one.

The film is a symphony in black and yellow fire, from a veteran who knows his craft and accurately all the clichés and knows what buttons you must press the target audience, which actually is not easy. I really believe that there are as difficult a good action adventure is to make every other movie, and again we see directors who fail to smile about, and these claims. Despite this cold calculation you realize the fun of the parties and the life-blood that was inserted in each picture. Symbolic of this is the scene between Stallone, Bruce Willis and Schwarzenegger, in which all three tries clearly are to be serious and they realize what they pull off a tosh there.
it was great fun.
And that's basically it will also ignore what all the weaknesses and B-movie elements will also always been dragged along by the genre, and who knows, maybe even this weak Stallone built overlooking the ancient times, a .. .. no, go so far as we want. The film is just pure entertainment and Fanservice, who does not take itself seriously, which was my greatest fear and not bother to Content weaknesses and strives to provide many memorable scenes that made the models of Expendables are unforgettable, but what he often not successful. I believe that the quick cuts to blame, which was so not then known.

I do not know is whether the younger audience understand the impressions of this kind of antiquated action adventure ever, as it seem from today's perspective, such as club and flint must, but that looked like this when there are simple answers to simple claims stated in the Prince Charming has no place, and with luck we will get more of this new, old iconic movies to see.