The Expendables is pure mindless violent cheese, and I loved it. Sure, there’s throaway action and fight scenes galore that won’t stay in your head much longer after you see it, but there’s at least 3 magical moments that make it all worth while. These include:

A brief but goose-bump inducing meeting between Stallone, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger is like the planets aligning in both its unlikliehood and inevitability. Sure, we’re never going to see a full-length film with this Holy Trinity of action together, but the short conversation and ribbing between is pure chemistry.

Mickey Rourke brings another fantastic moment with an incredible monologue about a horrible war experience that ends with him in tears, and Stallone with a clear motivation to finish the mission at hand. Sure, it’s no Quint talking about the ill-fated USS Indianapolis to his crew mates in Jaws, but I’d rank it up there with the top 50 movie speeches.

Jason Statham has a simple and lovely bit where he dispatches a man who beat up his girlfriend, along with about 6 of his basketball playing buddies. It’s wonderfully executed and great to watch. Statham is a great action star who manages to be both understated and deadly at the same time.

There’s a lot to love and a lot to not like in this movie, depending on your mindset. If you loved the recent Rambo film, and want to see mayhem at it’s finest, then check this out, you will not be upset. The last half hour of this movie alone contains some of the most non stop super high kill per minute attack finales of any movie I’ve ever seen. It’s like the end of Scarface times a thousand.

It’s a total treat to see the cast together. You’re bound to find something you like. Look for a story full of twists and deep characters elsewhere. This is the episode of The A-Team you always wanted to see, where they actually hit their targets.

This is the movie that gives you a crazy fight between Jet Li and Dolph Lundgren.

This is the movie that lets you watch a knife throwing contest between Mickey Rourke and Jason Statham.

This is the movie that pits Sylvester Stallone against Stone Cold Steve Austin (for those of you that longed for a rematch between Rocky and Thunderlips).

This is the movie that features Randy Couture fighting a man that catches fire, and snapping a dude’s neck backward!

It’s an all star Olympics of crazy action hero fun.

I can’t wait for the sequel.