2012 · action · adventure · thriller
The Expendables 2
Directed by Simon West1h 43m2012
Mr. Church reunites the Expendables for what should be an easy paycheck, but when one of their men is murdered on the job, their quest for revenge puts them deep in enemy territory and up against an unexpected threat.
Our read: The Expendables 2 (2012) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · adventure · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / adventure, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- epic-stakes
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