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The Expendables 2(2012)
Lionsgate Aug 17, 2012 | Wide
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.
Releases
Original Release | Aug 17, 2012
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Technical Specifications
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital,Datasat,Dolby Surround 7.1,SDDS,Auro 11.1,Dolby Atmos
Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1
Other Details
Country of Origin: United States,Germany,China
Language: English
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Summaries
Plot Summary
- The Expendables include leader Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone), knife specialist Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), hand-to-hand combat specialist Yin Yang (Jet Li), heavy-weapons specialist Hale Caesar (Terry Crews), demolitions expert Toll Road (Randy Couture), the unstable Gunner Jensen (Dolph Lundgren), and sniper Billy the Kid (Liam Hemsworth) who is the team's newest recruit, and Ross' protege.The Expendables are deployed to Nepal to rescue Dr. Zhou, a hostage. Zhou is a Chinese businessman who was captured by the Nepalese militia. The Expendables hit the militia compound with their heavily armed convoy. The militia defenses and troops are no match for the heavy weapons deployed by the Expendables.The Expendables had come very well prepared for all the obstacles that the militia could put in their path including armored plated convoy, heavy caliber machine guns, rocket launched grenades, and a thick steel bar mounted on the front of a vehicle to break through compound walls to get to the hostage. When they are attacked by a chopper, Ross uses a ramp to launch a bike at the chopper and brings it down.They also rescue the captured mercenary Trench (Arnold Schwarzenegger), Ross' rival. Trench had also taken a contract to rescue Zhou, but his team was captured instead. Trench goes his own way for escape, while the Expendables use a power line as a zip line from the roof of the compound to escape into the surrounding jungle. When Ross is surrounded by the militia, Billy takes them out from his hidden sniper position.The team then uses a boat to escape the jungle and are pursued by the militia in fast attack boats. Ross arrives with his sea plane that he lands in the middle of the river, while Billy takes out all the soldiers in the attack boats. Ross encounters a militia fortification in middle of the river (which starts firing on the sea plane) and takes it out with a cannon loaded in the front of his sea plane and operated by Christmas. Ross manages to get the plane back up in the air before it hits a barrage on the river.Yang leaves the group and jumps out of the plane with Zhou, as the plane flies over China, to escort him back to China. After returning to New Orleans, Billy tells Ross that he intends to retire at the end of the month and live with his girlfriend Sophia. Ross is sad to see Billy leave as Billy is an excellent sniper.Later, Ross is forced to accept a mission from CIA operative Mr. Church (Bruce Willis) to retrieve an item from a downed airplane in Albania. On a previous mission, Ross killed a CIA agent (who was corrupt) and stole $ 5 million from Church. Church vows to put Ross and his entire crew in Guantanamo Bay prison, if he does not accept the new mission. Church sends technical expert Maggie Chan (Yu Nan) with the team. In Albania the Expendables retrieve the item from a crashed plane. The item was locked behind a safe, which access codes that changed frequently. Maggie was on the team to disable the safe and get the item out.The Expendables are then ambushed by international criminal and arms dealer Jean Vilain (Jean-Claude Van Damme), his right-hand man Hector (Scott Adkins) and his mercenary group (the Sangs).The Sangs capture Billy, who was supposed to be watching over the group from a vantage point. Vilain demands the item in exchange for Billy's life. The team gives up the item, but Vilain stabs Billy through the heart with Ross's own knife and flees with the Sangs by helicopter. Ross recovers a note for Sophia from Billy's body. The team buries their fallen comrade, swearing revenge on Vilain. Church contacts Ross on radio and threatens dire consequences if the computer is not delivered. Ross admonishes Church for using the Expendables for his dirty work, due to which Billy died, and tells him that they are done working for him.Maggie tells them that the item is a computer, with the location of five tons of refined plutonium abandoned in a mine by the Soviet Union after the Cold War. Vilain intends to retrieve the plutonium and sell it. The Expendables are able to weakly track the computer's signal with Maggie's help and follow Vilain, who leads them to Bulgaria. The Expendables stay overnight at an abandoned Russian military base.Next morning, the team is ambushed by the Sangs and a tank. After the Expendables run out of ammunition, they are saved by Booker (Chuck Norris) (Ross' old friend), who quickly eliminates both the Sangs and the tank. Before he departs, Booker informs the group of a nearby village whose residents dislike Vilain. Meanwhile, Hector and Vilain dig up the plutonium and begin collecting it.In the village, the Expendables find several armed female villagers guarding their children from Vilain's forces. The local inhabitants are taken and put to work as slaves in the mine, never returning since they die from radiation poisoning in the mines, and the women plead for the Expendables' help.The Sangs arrive for more villagers but are ambushed by the Expendables and killed. After locating Vilain and the mine, the team assaults the area with their plane before deliberately crashing into the mine. The team saves the enslaved miners from execution, but Vilain and Hector escape with the plutonium. Vilain remotely detonates explosive charges in the mine, which collapses, trapping the miners and the Expendables.Church and Trench arrive, freeing the miners and the team, and join the Expendables to pursue Vilain. The group intercepts Vilain and his men at an airport as he prepares to leave by plane. Joined again by Booker, the Expendables, Trench and Church engage the Sangs in battle. Christmas decapitates Hector, while Ross and Vilain fight hand-to-hand. Ross defeats Vilain, stabbing him and avenging Billy.In the aftermath, Ross is given an old Antonov An-2 biplane by Church. Church, Maggie, Booker and Trench then leave the team. In France, Sophia (Nikolette Noel) discovers a box on her doorstep with a large sum of money and Billy's letter. As the Expendables depart in the plane, they propose a final toast to Billy.
Storyline
- Barney Ross is approached by CIA man Church, who wants him and his guns for hire to go to the former Soviet Union to retrieve something that was on a plane that crashed. Church doesn't tell him what he is getting. And Church sends a woman, Maggie with him to make sure he gets it. They find the plane and get the thing but some men take one of Barney's people hostage and the leader tells him to give him what they got or he'll kill his hostage. They give it to him but he kills his hostage anyway. Barney asks Maggie what was so important about that thing. She says that it showed the location of a Russian plutonium storage mine. Barney decides to track the man down and deal with him. They track them down and discover that the man they seek is Vilain who leads a group known as The Sangs and that they have taken all the men from the surrounding villages to work the mine. — rcs0411@yahoo.com After a successful rescue mission of a Chinese millionaire in Nepal, CIA Church (Bruce Willis) meets Barney Ross and asks him to travel with his team to Albania to retrieve the content of a safe in a plane that has crashed. Church sends the specialist Maggie to go with them. Soon they find the plane and Maggie takes a box from the safe, but while returning to the plane, they find that their sniper Billy The Kid (Liam Hemsworth) has been captured by a group of men under the command of Vilain (Jean-Claude Van Damme). He asks them to put the weapons on the ground and deliver him the box; otherwise, he would kill the hostage. Barney and his group do exactly what was ordered but Villain kills Billy the Kid before leaving in a helicopter. Barney asks Maggie what was inside the box and she tells that it shows the location of a large mine of Russian plutonium. Now Barney and his men decide to track down Villain and his group known as The Sangs and kill them. — Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil The Expendables return with a vengeance in this follow-up to the 2010 surprise hit. Con Air's Simon West directed from a script by Sylvester Stallone and David Agosto. This time, Barney Ross (Stallone) and his merry band of mercenaries (including Jason Statham, Randy Couture, Dolph Lundgren, and Terry Crews) take on a mission from Mr. Church (Bruce Willis) to clear Ross' record. The mission in question involves acquiring a black box from a downed airplane, with the caveat that they bring along Maggie (Yu Nan), a military-trained soldier who throws a gendered wrench into the team's manly ranks. When another mercenary, Jean Vilain (Jean Claude Van Damme), ambushes the team and mess up their newest member (The Hunger Games' Liam Hemsworth), it's hunt and kill time for the Expendables. Jet Li returns in an extended cameo, as does Arnold Schwarzenegger, with fellow '80s action star Chuck Norris coming along for the ride. — Amazon Following the explosive events of The Expendables (2010) , once more, CIA Agent Mr Church enlists the help of battle-hardened leader Barney Ross and his hard-as-nails Expendables for a seemingly simple mission. However, when the mission goes awry and the team suffers a casualty, the group vows revenge and ventures into hostile territory to thwart the dangerous plan of an evil megalomaniac who is determined to get his hands on five tons of weapons-grade plutonium. But this time, it is personal. Who can stand in the way of justice? — Nick Riganas 1 more All