Thursday, August 19, 2010

'The Expendables' Review

Sly Stallone's star-studded machismo machine "The Expendables" is so soullessly obsessed with shooting dudes, blowing up dudes, cutting dudes and talking to dudes about doing other dude stuff that -- dude! -- it practically put me to sleep.


That cast list is plenty cool, and it's fun to watch the names flash across the screen in the unembellished opening credit sequence, but the movie itself -- not campy enough to be camp, not committed enough to be cult -- is a throwaway, through and through. It should be called...oh, wait...

Catch my full review of "The Expendables," now online at SouthPhillyReview.com. CLICK HERE.

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