Friday 21 December 2012

Expendables 2
(2012)

RATING:40%
FORMAT:DVD



The usual White empowerment fantasy unrelieved by any real wit or humor - certainly less amusing than the original.

Whites exist to save the day and protect the world for benefit of Whites and ensure non-Whites are never allowed to become an effective economic, political and cultural competition. Yet the White culture revealed here is one based solely on violence as a means of achieving all ends with semi-automatic weapons as a sublimation of the desire for happiness and bloodily-repetitious gunfire as a substitute for drama.

Absurdly, revenge is the underlying motive here regarding the death of one of the team whom no-one is ever really shown caring for. This is an implicit admission that revenge is not the cause of the violence on show here but that revenge is simply an excuse for it - in the absence of any other deeply-felt emotion. This failing is exacerbated by a complete lack of characterization and any believable thematic content.

Given the age of many of the performers, one would have though that more comedy would be in evidence to allow us a greater scope for suspension of disbelief. But we are actually expected to take all this nonsense seriously, as if we were expected to unconditionally-accept Whites like Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian.


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