Yes, both those things existed in the first film. But in The Expendables 2, Willis (as Mr. Church) is looking to cash in on the debt owed to him by Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone), who led the aforementioned expendables in their mercenary mission at Church’s request in the original tough-guy team-up.
“I could’ve put you in the deepest, darkest hole, but I kept you out because I knew that one day would come when you were going to pay me back,” Willis says in the latest trailer for the sequel (above). “Today is that day.”
This is just the kind of talk that makes films like The Expendables awesome. It almost doesn’t matter what they’re saying or why they have to kill whoever they have to kill, so long as they say it while in a dark room, and (if possible) while holding a weapon. Beyond that, the sequel doesn’t really need to concern itself with anything more than getting all the great action heroes of the last three decades together to make a lot of crap go boom.
But, for those that care, the mercenaries get reunited in Expendables 2 when Church asks them to do a seemingly easy job. When one of them gets killed, they go on a quest for payback. (Revenge movie, yes!) According to the official synopsis, the crew “cuts a swath of destruction through opposing forces” and serves justice “the Expendables way.”
OK, we’re sold.
The Expendables 2, which also stars Jason Statham, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Jet Li (among many others), hits theaters Aug. 17, 2012.
