The Expendables 2

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Movie
German title The Expendables 2
Original title The Expendables 2
The Expendables 2 Schriftzug.png
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2012
length 103 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
JMK 16
Rod
Director Simon West
script Richard Wenk
Sylvester Stallone
production Avi Lerner ,
Danny Lerner ,
Kevin King Templeton,
Les Weldon,
Basil Iwanyk,
John Thompson
music Brian Tyler
camera Shelly Johnson
cut Todd E. Miller
occupation
synchronization
chronology

←  Predecessor
The Expendables

Successor  →
The Expendables 3

The Expendables 2 is a 2012 American action film . Directed by Simon West and written by Richard Wenk and Sylvester Stallone .

The film is the sequel to The Expendables in 2010 and, with the action stars Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham , Jet Li , Dolph Lundgren , Chuck Norris , Jean-Claude Van Damme , Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger a star-studded cast .

action

Barney Ross's Expendables are tasked with freeing a Chinese billionaire who is being held hostage at a military base in Nepal . The action succeeds, with Ross helping his rival Trench, who was captured during a previous rescue attempt, to freedom, alongside the Chinese. During the return trip, Yang says goodbye to the team to accompany the billionaire back home.

Billy, the sniper on Ross' team, would like to end working with the group at the end of the month to live in Paris with his girlfriend Sophia . To settle an old bill, Ross is forced by Mr. Church to recover a safe from a plane that crashed in Albania . Maggie Chang, a young fighter and IT expert who is supposed to crack the safe, is assigned to the expendables for the mission. Arriving at the wreckage of the plane, Ross' men succeeded in recovering a package from the safe, but a little later they were ambushed by the Sangs, a feared international force of mercenaries and terrorists led by Jean Vilain. These have Billy in their power and force Ross to hand him the package. After Vilain has humiliated the crew, he kills Billy and disappears with his sang and the package in a helicopter. At Billy's grave, Ross reads a letter to Sophia and swears to take revenge on the Sangs.

Maggie tells them that the package contains a computer that in turn has a map stored on it. This leads directly to a plutonium deposit in an old Soviet mine. Vilain's plan is to recover the plutonium and sell it worldwide for millions. The Expendables manage to locate the computer and follow Vilain with her plane to Bulgaria . They spend the first night in a reconstructed neighborhood for house- to- house fighting on an abandoned Soviet base. The following morning, a large group of Sangs surprisingly attacked with the support of a tank and put the group in serious distress. Booker, an old friend of Ross, saves the lives of the Expendables by single-handedly wiping out the enemy troops and the tank. He advises Ross to seek support in a nearby village whose residents oppose the Sangs.

Once there, Ross and his team come across a group of women armed to the teeth who want to protect their children from the Sangs. The men of the village have already been picked up and forced to work in the mine, where they have to toil to the death. The women ask Ross' men to help them. The team mingles with the crowd, lures some Sangs into a trap and kills a large number of Vilain's people. Then they locate the mine and attack it with their plane, whereby they free the workers from slavery, but cannot prevent Vilain from escaping with the plutonium. The leader of the Sangs detonates a bomb that causes the mine entrance to collapse.

After Gunnar has failed to pave an escape route with an improvised phosphorus bomb, Trench and Mr. Church appear and free the expendables from the mine. With that Trench and Ross are even. At an airport , where Vilain wants to load the plutonium, there is a showdown between the Expendables and Vilain's team. Ross' team receives support from Booker, Church and Trench. While Lee Christmas takes care of Vilain's henchman Hector, Barney Ross takes on Vilain himself and finally kills him after a tough duel.

After the battle, the group led by Ross separates from Booker, Maggie, Trench and Church and enters an old Antonov An-2 - Double Decker on, a gift Churchs, the trip home. A little later in Paris, a package is delivered to Sophia, which contains not only a considerable amount of cash but also Billy's farewell letter. At the same time, the Expendables toast their fallen and avenged comrades with their battle song.

production

crew

In addition to the slightly changed cast, The Expendables 2 is the same production company. However, Sylvester Stallone's role changed compared to the previous film. He handed over the direction to Simon West and wrote the script together with Richard Wenk . They were supported in story development by David Agosto and Ken Kaufman.

Casting

Most of the actors had already appeared in the previous film. In addition, you could win Liam Hemsworth for the sequel. This had already been planned for the predecessor, but his role at that time was deleted from the script. In addition to Hemsworth, Jean-Claude Van Damme could also be won over for the film, which was also up for debate at The Expendables , but could not identify with the role at the time. The cast was also expanded with Scott Adkins and Chuck Norris .

In addition, various rumors were circulating on the Internet about possible other actors, such as Charlie Sheen , Nicolas Cage , John Travolta or Antonio Banderas .

Filming

Entrance to the Dewetashka Cave, 2009

With a budget of 100 million US dollars, filming began on September 29, 2011. The first recordings were made in Bulgaria at the Nu Boyana Film Studios in Sofia . In addition, it was filmed in the cities of Plovdiv and Bansko . Other Bulgarian locations have included in the Dewetaschka -Höhle in Lovech -Provinz. Furthermore, it was filmed in Russia , France and Hong Kong .

During the shooting in the Dewetashka Cave, 600,000 leva (approx. € 306,773) were spent on the reconstruction of a 114-meter-long bridge that led from the cave over the Ossam River. Nu Boyana Film Studios left the bridge as a gift for Bulgaria after filming.

Accident while filming

On October 27, 2011, while the second stunt team was shooting in the Ognyanowo Reservoir, 15 miles outside of Sofia, stuntman Kun Lieu was killed in a planned explosion on a rubber boat and another stuntman, Nuo Sun, was seriously injured. Sun was in stable condition again after five hours of surgery. The parents of the injured Kun Lieu sued the production company Millennium Films for 25,000 US dollars. Stunt coordinator Chad Stahelski was accused of having acted negligently and recklessly and not having ensured adequate security.

Stylistic device: image noise

The Expendables 2 sees itself, like its predecessor, as an homage to the action films of the 80s and 90s. In order to confirm this fact, those responsible for the film opted for some stylistic means for the image representation. For example, many scenes from The Expendables 2 show noticeable intentional image noise .

Trivia

On 16 November 2011, the production line of was The Expendables 2 by the Bulgarian environmental protection authority to a fine ranging between 343 $ and 3440 $ prompted that they were contrary to the removal of small shrubs and trees at the entrance of Dewetaschka Cave of the law . Although permits were obtained to allow film sets to be built in the area, including a bridge to the cave, environmentalists complained that the filming could potentially damage the cave, which was a habitat for 40 endangered species of fauna and flora . To avoid further problems, the producers agreed and pledged not to film any explosions, car chases or fires near the cave.

On November 27, 2011, Bulgarian environmentalists reported that the bat population in the cave had decreased by almost three quarters, from around 30,000 in 2010 to 8,000 in 2011. Nikolaj Simov from the Center for Bat Studies and Protection at the Bulgarian Academy Blamed the production of The Expendables 2 for reducing the bat population, der Wissenschaft said, “The filming is damaging the animal habitat - with props, the removal of plants and the large amount of people making noise. The work is a direct violation of the Bulgarian Law on Biodiversity, which prohibits disturbing and chasing away protected animal species. "

When Barney told the others that Gunnar was a chemical engineer, was at MIT and was a Fulbright scholar, that was true - not for Gunnar, but for his actor Dolph Lundgren.

reception

In the IMDb , The Expendables 2 is rated with 6.6 points. At Rotten Tomatoes , the film is 68% positive of the reviews submitted and it has a Metascore of 51 out of 100 at Metacritic .

As a representative of the action genre, The Expendables 2 was received largely positively. Cinema notes the “spectacularly staged and again extremely drastic action interludes” by director Simon West . The highlights are the "extended and tongue-in-cheek cameos by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Chuck Norris".

The film service writes that "the marginal plot of the martial action parcours" serves to "create space for the illustrious cast for dramatic showpieces". The film "lives from the self-deprecating self-portrayal of the aged action heroes."

continuation

The sequel The Expendables 3 appeared again in 2014, two years apart . The line-up was expanded to include names like Wesley Snipes and Antonio Banderas .

synchronization

In the dubbed German version, both Stallone and Schwarzenegger are voiced by their standard speaker Thomas Danneberg. After Charles Rettinghaus had dubbed Randy Couture in the first film, he took over Jean-Claude Van Damme in the sequel, whom he has already voiced in numerous films. Dialog book and synchronous Director took over Norman Matt from the synchronous company Splendid Synchron GmbH.

role actor Voice actor
Barney Ross Sylvester Stallone Thomas Danneberg
Lee Christmas Jason Statham Thomas Nero Wolff
Yin yang Jet Li Simon hunter
Gunnar Jensen Dolph Lundgren Oliver Stritzel
Booker Chuck Norris Jürgen Kluckert
Jean Vilain Jean-Claude Van Damme Charles Rettinghaus
Mr. Church Bruce Willis Manfred Lehmann
Trench Mauser Arnold Schwarzenegger Thomas Danneberg
Hale Caesar Terry Crews Tobias Kluckert
Great road Randy Couture Sascha Rotermund
Billy the Kid Liam Hemsworth Nico Sablik
Hector Scott Adkins Jan-David Rönfeldt
Maggie Yu Nan Maria Koschny
Lacy Charisma Carpenter Giuliana Jakobeit

Web links

Individual evidence

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