I wasn't too keen on the first film and had pretty good reasons to believe that - the film was marred by a thinly-written script and an overused plot. It nailed the 'action' part of the genre but the emotional tease that you expect from a movie of this caliber was non-existent. This wasn't the case with the sequel.
In fact, the sequel was surprisingly a whole lot more gripping and watchable than it's predecessor. When you call something an action movie, give me mind-blowing action - probably what this series will be known for from this point on. And I won't lie, I enjoyed it. Even more so than I expected. You never got to know the expendables properly in the first film, and this one doesn't bother to fix that. But the fact that all these guys do is kick ass all day it's better if you don't know much about them - I think you'll agree that it's mystifying (to say the least).
So obviously I couldn't go ahead and find a VFX take on the movie (which wasn't particularly hard to find - thank you YouTube!)
Have a looksy!
I also, having expected the barrage of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator allusions, he does manage to get a kick out of you every time he says, 'I'm back' or 'I'll be back' - to which Bruce Willis simply replies, 'You've been back enough!'. I thought this was brilliant!
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