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The Expendables show-cases Stallone as a seasoned filmmaker, who manages to insert style and some wisdom into shoot-em-up flicks. (Spoiler):

Posted by: Facto on Aug 30, 16:32 in response to edzep's post The Expendables: B+; The Prisoner (2009 mini-series): D-...

However, what if the president's daughter wasn't a stunning beauty? What if she was fat and had freckles - would Sly and the boys still go the extra mile for her? Undecided

Hence, I give it a B- . It has to be a B, due to the genre and it being a guilty pleasure/gratuitous violence-flick, but the minus is for minor cliches such as that one..

Still, B- is quite good. Even E is a pass, right? And only F is fail.





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