Movie Analysis: Ocean's Eleven - Essay Example

Again, either audiences watched it because it revolved around one of everyone’s favorite occasions or the stars in it were popular in their own right. Introduction The movie Expendables is one film much like Ocean’s Eleven and Valentine’s Day because of the line-up of actors in it. Featuring major action stars in Hollywood, namely: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Dolph Lundgren and Jet Li, The Expendables was number one at the box office in the United States, United Kingdom, China and India.

With a budget of $82 million, the movie was released by Lionsgate and was co-written and directed also by Sylvester Stallone. (Fritz) In my opinion, the main plot and the sub-plots were very simple. Generally, I think it was a movie made primarily to get all these big action heroes to act in one film. The story is about a group of mercenaries headed by Stallone’s character. He and Schwarzenegger, another leader of a different group of mercenaries, are approached by Mr. Church, played by Bruce Willis, to overthrow a dictator in an island called Vilena.

Schwarzenegger explains his group is too busy for the job and passes it over to Stallone. With Statham, Stallone goes to Vilena and do reconnaissance. They meet their contact who, later revealed in the movie, is also the dictator’s daughter. A fight scene with explosions and gunfire occur during the visit and Stallone decides to forego the mission. When he goes back stateside, the group comes to the conclusion that the real mission was to kill the ex-CIA agent manipulating the dictator and that Willis, who was probably CIA, could not assign government forces to the job.

Stallone discusses the dilemma with another member, Mickey Rourke’s character, and decides to do the job alone and at the same time rescue the dictator’s daughter. His other team members talk him into bringing them along. The group goes back and kills the ex-CIA agent which frees the dictator’s daughter and the people of Vilena. The rescue mission is filled with more explosives, gunfights and fight scenes. The subplots include Statham’s character discovering his girlfriend had left him for another guy who, apparently, beats her up.

Once he finds out about this, he heads out to where the guy is, beats him up and warns him to stay away from his ex-girlfriend. The other one is about Lundgren’s character. He manifests a psychologically disturbed persona during a mission at the beginning of the movie and later on confesses to Stallone about having drug problems. These issues force Stallone to let him go. Lundgren tries to get his revenge by siding with the enemy and being part of a plan to kill Stallone. The venture ends up with Lundgren fighting with Li’s character who was with Stallone during the ambush and getting shot by Stallone.

Convinced by Stallone to do a good thing should he die, Lundgren shares what he knows about the ex-CIA agent’s plans. Lundgren does not die and is back with the team at the end of the movie. Yet another is Jet Li’s character asking Stallone for an increase in his share of the earnings because of family matters. Strengths & Weaknesses: There are several factors that made this particular movie a hit. As proven by films with a