Expendables 2 – A waste of heavy resources

Working in an IT company I feel a lot of times that my company is paying the senior guys too much and they don’t deserve that much of salary for their work. I feel the same watching Expendables 2. What is the use of Arnold, Willis when you have to use them for 5 minute of total bombshell shit?

Expendables 2 starts promisingly, the excitement is back as the team go on full Rampage to save a Chinese someone that doesn’t mattered for the rest of the movie. Big combat trucks are thrown at us and Lee (Statham) is taking shots from his machine gun as we remember in Rambo 4, full bloody hell. They save Chinese and also Arnold, who was trapped there.

Bill the Kid (Hemsworth), a very sharp Sniper is introduced then who helps the Expendables escaping a giant water rush after saving the Chinese. And from here they are in there usual plane with Barney as t heir pilot, Jet Lee is gone after an initial burst and never returns in the movie. So his fans don’t go for the movie.

Church comes into picture, yes Mr. Willis looks good on screen but there is nothing he is supposed to be doing in this movie. Expendables have a new assignment and they are screwed, Bill gets killed, Barney is back in his emotional revenge mood. Lee gets someone to screw like Steve Austin in 1^st part. Maggie, yes we have a female character too, who doesn’t impress you.

Boom bang next. Yes it was worth a wait I would say as the full team go on hunting the bad guys. This movie is not a modern day techie war James bond movie with lot of gadgets and all. It’s an old school movie of bullets and knives and combat skills and tanks and choppers and blood.

Don’t go looking for a plot, forget story and enjoy all these big heavyweights together fighting, who knows till when we are seeing them as they rightly said in last “We three should be in museum”.

Step Up Revolutions – Great entertainment but nothing you will remember for long

Step Up movies have always been highly entertaining because of the dance, there is a lot of dance and story is molded around it. This one is no different, but the movie lacks one other basic ingredient the competition. We know they have been competing for an online competition but against whom we have no idea.

Who is the “MOB”-the Mob is all of us trying to say to the world that we exist. A group of local dancers try to steal the limelight by their dancing sequence at abstract places trying to have maximum hits on youtube.

For the pros of the movies, dancing is good, more than dancing it’s the creativity of the makers as they did sequences from a crowded street to art gallery, in restaurant etc. The sequence in Art gallery was a major high, directed perfectly with amazing costumes and light effects. The final show was even better with all the stunts performed by the artists.

For the Cons the movie lacks some originality, in the first scene itself we have been exposed to the dancing sequence and after some time we got to know some characters but we never see how they developed into a team, who their competitors are. It’s a one dimensional risk that the makers took. And mostly it paid off.

The romantic mood of the movie doesn’t step up at all till the very end, but that is acceptable. We have Mooze in the final sequence and he is lovable as he was in the 3^rd edition.

The story is very normal. Personal issues and problems, misunderstanding, love, personal ambitions, business, politics all come into picture. Not anything incredible here as I mentioned this movie is for dance. 

Well go for fun, electric, stunt based dancing and enjoy the moves in 3D. The location of Miami has been perfect for the mood of the movie. 

Step-Up producers have to dig in deep if they want to make a next movie, the movies are entertaining and may be commercial success, but we are certainly losing interest in these.

Ratings-

Entertainment – 9/10

Dancing – 10/10

Story – 5/10

Overall 6.5/10