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28 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- The Expendables 2 offers the sendoff adrenaline junkies are seeking before the more sedate pace of fall releases.
- 80Boxoffice MagazineAmy NicholsonBoxoffice MagazineAmy NicholsonThis over-the-top sequel caters to the lowest common denominator in the best possible way, and it's so fully committed to brainless bombast that it muscles audiences to applaud by sheer force of will.
- 75Slant MagazineSlant MagazineIt plays out like a series wet-dream scenarios, performed by a cast of vintage action figures battered and broken from overuse, bleached and slightly molted from sitting in the sun too long.
- 70VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangThis muscle-bound meathead extravaganza is a sometimes blissfully cretinous endeavor, delivering the maximum firepower and zero brainpower its target audience expects.
- 67The PlaylistTodd GilchristThe PlaylistTodd GilchristAs a film that even passingly acknowledges the disposability of stars in a genre whose artistic merits are considered negligible (if they're considered at all), The Expendables 2 is indispensable entertainment.
- 50Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversLike the 2010 original, The Expendables 2 is all sound and fury signifying nothing, when at the very least it should add up to big, dumb fun.
- 40EmpireEmpireA huge, bulging disappointment.
- 40Village VoiceNick PinkertonVillage VoiceNick PinkertonHas the parallel between the actor and the mercenary's trade ever been so overt?
- 25Miami HeraldRene RodriguezMiami HeraldRene RodriguezChuck Norris is also in this movie, although you should know that he gets roughly five minutes of screen time, half of those devoted to his telling of a Chuck Norris joke. That is as funny as the movie's self-aware humor gets.