Movie Review: 'The Expendables' lives up to name

 

Published: August 13, 2010

" The Expendables " is an exercise in nostalgia for the bygone era of muscly, macho action films. It's willfully out of date, like an aging hair band that can't pack away the spandex.

Sylvester Stallone , the director, co-writer and star, has said he set out to make a movie "with brains and brawn, not modern technology."

Stallone thus comes across as a kind of Rip Van Winkle , had Van Wi...


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