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Judging from the title, I am guessing that it was a giveaway as to what movie I was going to review this week. While I was busy with WPPM over the weekend, I managed to sneak in a movie on Friday night and it was a major dose of testosterone.

With Sylvester Stallone as director (and the lead), Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Jason Statham, Randy Couture, Steve Austin, Terry Crew and cameo by Bruce Willis and Mickey Rourke, this movie pretty much screamed no brains needed.

True enough, like a tribute to the 80s, the plot was simple, the dialogue was corny, it was always about saving a girl, and action aplenty. This is like A-Team without wit, and 10x the muscles and action. Sylvester also probably watched a few gore movies when he decided to mutilate random soldiers during the action scenes.

Since this is pretty much a “no brain needed” movie, I am not going to talk about the plot or the script because well, they were not meant to be very good. However, there is one single thing that is not working for this movie. There were too much dialogue and too long of a build-up.

Other than that, it was all good. The action scenes were quite awesome. If only they didn’t take so long to reach there. Luckily I managed to wake up in time just for it.

So, if you want to see the glory days of the old action stars, then Expendables is one movie you shouldn’t miss.

Oh and I am also loving this new censorship style where 18+ movies are pretty much uncensored these days! Kudos to the Censorship Board for finally realising why we have 18+ movies in the first place.