Tag: The Expendables 2
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The Expendables 4 Was Always Going To Be Rated R [Exclusive]
It’s almost time to see your favorite action stars from across the decades team up to fight the bad guys again in “Expend4bles.” The first two films — 2010’s “The Expendables” and 2012’s “The Expendables 2″ — were action packed with some wild violence. Of course, they were rated R for some juicy and intense…
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Expendables 4 Ending Explained: The Dead Don’t Die
Major spoilers for “Expend4bles” follow.Ever since “The Expendables” was released in 2010, the identity and tone of the franchise has been heavily in question. That first film seemed to want to have things both ways, presenting the trials and tribulations of the (very fictional) titular team of mercenaries while metatextually commenting on (and piggybacking off…
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Expendables 4 Review: A Staggeringly Stupid Sequel
The on-screen figures in the “Expendables” movies aren’t so much characters as they are human-shaped bundles of toxically masculine clichés and blind, violent impulses wrapped in skull-emblazoned kevlar. They lurch about on-screen like Frankensteinian monsters, living piles of jock straps and congealed taurine drinks, belching out monosyllabic action flick catchphrases in between Don Julio-instigated brawls…
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‘Expend4bles’ Review: A Few of the Old Boys Are Back, Now Joined by Megan Fox, but the Series’ Appeal Feels Increasingly Expendable
In “Expend4bles,” the action is more digitally propulsive than it was in “The Expendables” (2010), “The Expendables 2” (2012), or “The Expendables 3” (2014). Yet the preferred mode of killing is reassuringly primitive. In scene after scene, characters use knives to slit people’s throats, or they’ll sometimes jam a knife directly into the throat. “Expend4bles”…
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‘The Witcher: Blood Origin’ Signals Trouble for the Franchise Going Forward
Is “The Witcher” in crisis? Among a family of intensely serious fantasy fare, TV’s silly, swearing cousin is struggling through an off-year filled with more dread than anticipation. Season 1 premiered in 2019, Season 2 in 2021, and Season 3 is expected sometime next year, but it’s not the wait that’s getting to fans —…
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Legacy of Lies review – sappy action thriller undone by lack of smarts
Scott Adkins plays a violence-prone former spy turned bouncer in this tale of shootouts with a young daughter in towActing talent is largely neither here nor there when it comes to low-budget action thrillers: what makes the difference is a script that’s smart enough to play to its cast’s strengths. Instead, Legacy of Lies prefers…
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Chinese disaster film ‘Skyfire’ lands North American deal with Screen Media
Simon West directed.Screen Media has picked up all North American rights from Highland Film Group to Meridian Entertainment’s Chinese disaster film Skyfire starring Jason Isaacs and Hannah Quinlivan.Simon West (Con Air and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and The Expendables 2) directed the English-language film, which debuted in China in December 2019.Xueqi Wang and Shawn Dou…
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China Disaster Film ‘Skyfire’ Bought by Screen Media for North America
Screen Media has bought all North American rights to “Skyfire,” China’s first big-budget disaster movie, from Highland Film Group and plans to release the film in theaters and on demand in December.“Skyfire” is directed by Simon West and stars Jason Isaacs (“Hotel Mumbai”), Hannah Quinlivan (“Skyscraper”), Xueqi Wang (“Iron Man 3”) and Shawn Dou (“Wolf…