Review of The Expendables (2010) by Joshua Katzman for Chicago Reader — 26 Oct 2011
Stallone directs a bloodbath that borrows liberally from such male-bonding classics as Robert Aldrich's "The Dirty Dozen" and Sam Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch," but offers not a whiff of the tragic fatalism and astute critique of machismo that inform those superior dramas.
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This review of The Expendables (2010) was written by Joshua Katzman and published by Chicago Reader on 26 Oct 2011.
The Expendables has generally received mixed reviews.
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