The Expendables 2 is a 2012 American ensemble action film written by Richard Wenk and Sylvester Stallone, and made with whopping budget of more than $100 million [INR 550 Crore]. Mostly shot in Bulgaria, Hong Kong and New Orleans.  Production: Millennium Films;        Director: Simon West;            Music: Brian Tyler Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Liam Hemsworth, Jet Li, Scott Adkins, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Bruce Willis, Yu Nan, Chuck Norris, Arnold Schwarzenegger     TICKET - COUNTER - TALK: Eleven [11] World well known action heroes in single movie, written by Sylvester stallone, First movie of Mr.Muscular Arnold Schwarzenegger  after his political career. Expendables original [released in 2010] was neat and increases expectations on The Expendables 2. STORY:           Starts with  Barney Ross [Stallone] and his team of hard-bitten mercenaries on a clandestine mission to extract a kidnapped Chinese billionaire in Nepal, where they discover that someone has gotten there before them -- Trench [Arnold Schwarzenegger], another operative for their contractor, Mr. Church [Bruce Willis]. Freeing Trench and the billionaire from their captors, the team returns to the States, where Church confronts Barney with an unpleasant reminder: The Expendables’ leader owes Church $5 million in confiscated cash from a previous job. But he is prepared to make a deal if Barney takes on a new assignment. The catch is that he will need to place Church’s operative on his team, Chinese tech expert Maggie [Yu Nan]. Their assignment is to retrieve an undisclosed item from a high-tech electronic safe aboard a downed plane that has crashed in Albania. Although new team member and Afghanistan vet Billy [Liam Hemsworth], an expert sniper, reluctantly tells Barney that this is his last outing, the rest of the Expendables relish another mission, including second-in-command Lee Christmas [Jason Statham] and team members Gunner Jensen [Dolph Lundgren], Toll Road [Randy Couture] and Hale Caesar [Terry Crews]. HALL-WAY-CONVERSATIONS:           Bigger in scope than the original, the film's nonstop mayhem includes cartoonish battles, geysers of CGI blood and seemingly impossible stunts, with the geriatric gang of beloved icons placed centre stage for maximum thrills. While movie starts with the bang of action and ends with the expensive action scenes too... There is kind of slowness in the middle, might make you feel like you wanna take a quick-smoke-brake. Dialogues between Sylvester Stallone  and Jason Stathom are good, such as: Jason to Stallone:: A friend to a friend. I wish you learn some fight.   Stallone to Jason:: You have an ego as big as a Dinosaur. PROS:             Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Action packed Hollywood venture; Action lovers get to see what exactly they are expecting to,  Unimaginable stunts, 550 crore budget put to work in right way. Get to see 11 action heroes on one ticket :)    CONS:   Simple story; build on top of original Expendables, nothing fancy further. Director seemed to have hard time in giving screen time for these 11 heroes, may make you feel your favorite hero was on screen only for few minutes.   Slowed down narration during the middle of film.   BOTTOM-LINE:  Better than original, 100 minutes worth spent with all the Hollywood style action. Go watch it.