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The Movie
starts as a love story with Sophia (Nastassja Kinski) and Michael
Luciano (Michael Hayden) as two young
lovers who had to say their goodbyes because Michael is going to the Harvard in the USA ---which will be a long ways
from Palermo, Italy.
Michael
hated to leave Sophia but he had to return home for his going away party to be
with his parents and three brothers.
Michael father is Don Roberto Luciano (Dennis Farina) and mother is
Graziella Luciano (Vanessa Redgraves).
Don Roberto
Luciano had a visitor that afternoon mob boss Pietro Carolla (Tony Lo Bianco) from the U.S. who
wanted permission to traffic drugs.
But Don
Luciano rejected his request. During the conversation Don Roberto Luciano
introduces his sons to Carolla. This was the wrong thing to do, because later
that night Michael goes to see Sophia to say goodbye with a kiss. Sophia was
wearing the heart locket Michael had given her that afternoon at the beach; she
was so proud of it.
When Michael
started walking home a car pulls up beside him---and it is Pietro Carolla who
offers Michael a ride home. But Michael never makes it home. He is beaten,
killed and left at the gate of his home, Pietro has his revenge.
In the meantime,
Sophia finds out she is pregnant so she goes to the convent to the sisters where she
works and lives there to have her baby boy. One day she decides to go to Don
Roberto Luciano; after finding out that Michael is dead---to tell them she had
Michael’s son and she needed money to help raise him, leaving the baby at the
convent to be taken care of until she returns that same day. Sophia puts the
locket around her son’s neck to keep him safe while she went to the Luciano’s
home.
Sophia is
turned away from the gate of the Luciano home and is almost thrown in the path
of a car driven by Constantino Luciano (Richard
JosephPaul). Constantino takes
Sophia into their home and his mother Graziella and he takes care of her until
she is on her feet once again. She called the convent and one of the sisters
told her that her baby was adopted by a wonderful family, and this news almost
killed her. Sophia never had the chance to tell them about Michael’s baby---so
they never knew about him.
A few years
later a wild little boy is taken in by the monks who stated his name was Luka
and was having a fit because one monk had taken a heart locket he always wore
around his neck. The monk in charge gave the locket back to Luka.
Constantino
and Sophia fall in love and later they have twin boys. This is a great movie
that was three hours long----and I could have watched another three hours it was
that good.
I hope
everyone will get this DVD because it is well worth owning and viewing whenever
---each time I watch it---I see something new.
This movie is packed with action, adventure, firepower,
fighting, it looks like a small war behind these guys wherever they go.
The leader of the team is Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) a rough exterior of a
man who takes no prisoners kind of guy, whose appearance is strong, fierce and
relentless when it comes to his enemies or any enemy who has sinned against
humane living; but one can tell he does have a kind heart under all the
hardness. The beautiful scenery in the movie adds to the viewer’s pleasure as
the guys travel overland and in their plane.
The movie begins with Barney Ross and his team Lee Christmas (Jason
Statham) who seems to be Barney’s right hand man---is equally just as
fierce with his expertise with a knife or sword. Yin Yang (Jet Li) probably knows all
the martial arts including judo, jiu jitsa, and aikide and is so fast he spins
like a top. Gunner Jensen (Dolph Lundgren) is a Swedish skilled genius who is
on a mission to get the job done and is the scariest looking of them all. Hale
Caesar (Terry Crews) is a walking tall wall of a muscular giant---this is one
man who is a team on his own. Toll Road ( Randy Couture) evens out the team with
his strength and professional quietness---looking at him---one can refer to the
saying, “Still Waters Run Deep” and the enemy should never hesitate when he is confronted
by him.
These are the main five who are from a disbanded old-school “Mercenaries”
that has formed a team of Expendables men living on the edge as they take high
risk missions for big money. And each one knows in advance they are expendable
and might at any time be killed, even though they have each other’s back.
Joined for a short time is Bill the Kid they call him (Liam
Hemsworth) who is skilled as a sniper---and he is one of the best long ranger
sniper known. He is a handsome young man that the guys are in awe of because of
his skills and youth. They have forgotten how it was to be that young
again---because they are reasoned older men with the skills of a small army,
rough, tough and rode hard.
In finishing up a mission they not only rescued the target but
found Trench (Arnold Schwarzenegger) tied to a chair by the enemy Japanese
Terrorist Group and they saved them both.
Then finally after a long mission they are flying home for a
long deserved rest---in Barney’s plane that he uses as his home---when Church (Bruce
Willis) calls him to remind him he took his 5 million dollars and now
he owned him a mission.
In this mission Maggie (Nan Yu) joins the Expendables---because Church
insisted she go with them because she has the skill needed to rescue an item--- he
needs from a wrecked plane.
This is where they met Vilian (Jean-Claude Van Damme)
the meanest inhumane psychotic man on the planet and the mayhem begins. Vilian
leads a band of Terrorist-for-Hire cutthroats.
This is a volatile movie and the screen
lights-up like the 4th of July fireworks all going at once
when Barney’s team and the Terrorist-for-Hire butt heads over 5 tons of
weapon-grade Plutonium.
Any action fan can get their thrill with this movie and I am one of them. I rate this movie---WOW!
The movie begins with five expert bank robbers that creates a
skillful team which includes GordonJennings (Idris Elba), John Rahway
(Paul
Walker), A.J. (Hayden Christensen), and Jake (Michael
Ealy), and Jess (Chris Brown) these men are very
professional in their attire and manner
They all lead the good life, any luxury that want is theirs,
women and more women. The team has just finished a bank job and has money to
invest in whatever venture their little robbing heart’s desire.
After each job they always started to plan another one---however one of their
former team members is released from prison--- known by the name of Ghost (Tip T.I. Harris). Ghost has his own agenda;
one is getting even with Jake because he feels he stole his girlfriend away
from him.
Ghost comes to them with a plan to rob two armored cars that
will be carrying 20 million. But Jake does not feel comfortable about this plan
because he feels he is being rushed. The team does not trust Ghost because
being careful is their second nature after all these years.
Even though this team of men proved very professional in
their area of expertise and never left any clues behind that would lead the law to
them---which is all well and good. But they did not count on a stubborn Los
Angeles Detective Jack Welles (Matt Dillon). His
job is very important to him and he is like a Bulldog with a bone---he never
gives up.
This is an action packed movie with great actors and
storylines.
