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35 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe way that Stallone directs, though, every machete thrust and relentless round of bullet spray is staged with a certain undeniable...conviction.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterAn effective mix of lean and over-the-top, The Expendables is often preposterous, but it achieves the immediacy of a graphic novel without the overdone mythology.
- 60Boxoffice MagazinePete HammondBoxoffice MagazinePete HammondA who's who of classic action stars light up the screen for pure combustible entertainment in Sly Stallone's The Expendables, a sort of "Dirty Dozen" meets "Inglourious Basterds"--and then some.
- 60Village VoiceNick PinkertonVillage VoiceNick PinkertonThis is action as timeless as the reptilian brain-and if The Expendables is no classic, for about 20 minutes, it blowed up real good.
- 50Orlando SentinelRoger MooreOrlando SentinelRoger MooreThe Expendables feels, well -- disposable, a movie whose nostalgia isn't enough to make this 50. caliber trip down Memory Lane worth the fake napalm.
- 40VarietyVarietyA nearly incoherent all-stars-on-deck actioner that plays like "Grown Ups" on nitro or a brutish, blue-collar "Ocean's Eleven."
- 40Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichThe thought behind this body-splattering nostalgia trip is unformed and stagnant.
- 40Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzArizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzYou see this cast, you expect to see a lot of violent action. And in that regard, The Expendables delivers, and then some. In this case, then, the old saying applies: Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it.
- 30MovielineStephanie ZacharekMovielineStephanie ZacharekThe whole exercise has the trying-too-hard vibe of a bad toupee.
- 10The New YorkerAnthony LaneThe New YorkerAnthony LaneThe Expendables is savage yet inert, and breathtakingly sleazy in its lack of imagination.