Directed by Simon West.
★½
I don't remember much about the "plot" of the first one, but the second one has less of it. Stallone and company are hired mercenaries who go in to fortified headquarters in whatever country, shoot down a hundred henchmen, blow stuff up, then leave.
Then they get a job that is supposed to be easy, but "one of their own" is killed, which makes it personal.
It's inspired that they bring in Jean-Claude Van Damme to play the main villain. Most of the rest of it is tired rehash. They fire a lot of guns, they exchange one-liners, they fire more guns, they make in-jokes (Arnold and Bruce say each other's catchphrases at one point), and nothing else about it justifies its existence. Chuck Norris shows up? Huh. Does he do anything cool? Not really.
So maybe when they make Expendables 3, they'll get Carl Weathers, Gerard Butler and Dwayne Johnson, and they'll invade North Korea and overthrow Kim Jong-Un. Might as well.
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