It lived up to the classic tough guy genre of the mid 80's, which is what I expected based on the hype. Some classic (expectedly cheesy) one-liners, massive endless explosions (at one point during the movie, I leaned over and said to a friend "the entire movie is blowing up") with excessive gun fire, introduction of unique automatic shot gun, sprayed guts, beheadings, emotionally scarred characters, more cheesy one-liners and a couple of campy cameos. If it wasn't for the dark and shaky camera shots of all fight scenes, I would have given this a 5 star rating (for the hard to believe poor plot) movie that it was. I'm still wondering....who the heck at The Expendables anyway? Ex CIA? Ex military? Ex FBI? Ex cons? Ex bikers? I'm really not sure.