Team vs. Expendables: Which Mercenary Movie Will Reign Supreme?
· Explosion Quotient The A-Team was far and away the explosion leader before the Expendables trailer even arrived on the scene. But now it’s got a challenger, with six fiery booms to The Expendables’ five. Extra points for The Expendables’ seemingly arbitrary placement of explosions in its trailer, which beats The A-Team’s more absurdly story-driven set-piece conflagrations. Screw nuance. The Expendables: 8 The A-Team: 9 · Cast Quotient Again, for sheer nostalgic, multi-generational, inspired tough-guy casting, you’ve got to give it up to Stallone for packing in more bruisers per square inch than any film ever attempted. Ambitious! NB: “Rampage” Jackson? Really? He looks like he’s going to a freaking Halloween party. The Expendables: 9 The A-Team: 6 · Filmmaking Quotient Stallone has more than two decades of action films on A-Team director Joe Carnahan, and the Expendables trailer along demonstrates his alacrity with kinetics on the ground, in the air or wherever else bone-crushing mer
