The Expendables 2 is an action movie which was released on August 16, 2012. The film was directed by Simon West and written by Richard Wenk and Sylvester Stallone. The movie is based on a story by Ken Kaufman, David Agosto and Richard Wenk.

The Expendables is an unauthorized mercenary group whose leader is Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone). The group performs different type of jobs, usually unlawful and violent ones.

The movie begins when the Expendables are on a mission. Their primary objective was to rescue Chinese doctor and bring him back to China. Accidentally the group rescued a rival mercenary, Trench (Arnold Schwarzenegger,) who has been taken as hostage. Mission was accomplished and the crew returns home. Suddenly an old employer of Barney, Church (Bruce Willis), appears to collect his share, $5 million dollars, from Barney. Supposedly Ross is pennyless and he has to accept a new assignment to get rid of his debts.

The new missions fails in two ways: The group losts their objective and during the mission the youngest member of the crew, Billy the Kid (Liam Hemsworth), was killed by Jean Vilain (Jean-Claude van Damme). Vilain is an arm trader who wants an access to Plutonium recources which could be used in mass destruction weapons.

The team takes as a mission to revenge the death of the Billy while preventing Vilain in his evil intentions.

The Expendables 2 is a typical action movie where the special effects plays a central role. The sound effects, including gun fire, crashes, explosions etc., are realistic as well as impressive. The visual effects contains a lot of explosions with all the side effects and the film was even criticized because it has caused too much environmental harm in the set in Bulgaria. Also one stuntman was killed and another critically injured during the filming.

Lot of different angles of views are used to create a diverse and rich audiovisual experience. Soundtrack is inferior to the sound effects which suits this movie due to the central role of the sound effects.

In my opinion The Expendables 2 is a great movie for fans of this genre and I would recommend it.