Review: ‘The Expendables 2′ is a kick Los Angeles Times

By Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times Film Critic

August 16, 2012, 5:45 p.m.

“The Expendables 2″arrives jam-packed and fully loaded with main man Sly Stallone still leading the charge, followed by that wild bunch of aging brawn. There is some new blood in Liam Hemsworth and a lot of very old blood with nearly every AARP action hero in the book turning up at some point. And the kill count reaches into the ca-zillions.

But somehow all that testosterone-infused blow-’-em-up craziness turns out to be kind of a kick.

Director Simon West hasn’t messed much with the basic formula of Barney’s (Stallone) buffed-up band of misfits saving the day, though the camp factor has been ratcheted up considerably and the action is even more over the top than in its 2010 predecessor. The central wrecking crew is composed of Christmas (Jason Statham), Yin Yang (Jet Li), Gunner (Dolph Lundgren), Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) and Toll Road (Randy Couture). The fight has shifted from Latin America to Asia, but freedom is once again on the line. The guy responsible for this desert storm is brutally played by kickboxing greatJean-Claude Van Damme a villain named Vilain (sic).

Like the original, “Expendables 2″ starts with a brazen bid to rescue someone from imminent torture and death, this time in Nepal. Since Barney and the guys don’t really do anything on the down-low, it is a breathless stretch of crash

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