The Expendables

For arguably the worst film of his undistinguished career, Sly Stallone has assembled a crowd of familiar screen action men to play a band of mercenaries who go around the world gleefully wasting bad guys in large numbers with guns, knives, explosives and karate chops. When not killing people, they grin at one another and swap self-aggrandising macho talk. Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger have non-executive walk-on roles and Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagal and Vinnie Jones are presumably being held in reserve for the sequel. For the record, John Ford's They Were Expendable , one of the greatest pictures about men in battle, is indispensable. Stallone's Expendables is redundant, superfluous, worthless and every pejorative synonym Roget can come up with.