Tool adds that, had he done the right thing, he might’ve “saved what was left” of his soul. “After taking all those lives, there was one I could’ve saved, but didn’t,” Tool says, tears in his eyes. His mentor, Tool, reminisces about how he once purposely let a woman kill herself. He even learns a few things along the way. And I guess you could say that’s a good thing-even if it means forcing the island through a rigorous, um, depopulation program. Ross does decide to return to Vilena to save Sandra and fight the island’s corrupt powers. That’d probably provide a few opportunities for a little more killing. Perhaps he could set aside some time for a rescue mission, too. He begins to mull whether there’s more to life than just bench presses and killing. Sandra had refused to leave, and Ross wonders whether he should’ve done something to save her-and her tiny island, too. So they press their bulging biceps back into their shirt-sleeves and take off, without so much as a “sorry for the carnage” note.īack home, Ross begins to have second thoughts, though. But after Ross and Christmas kill 41 Vilenese soldiers, they realize there are still a bunch more to kill-perhaps even more than their five-person killing team can manage. They see that Sandra, Garza’s beautiful-and-brave daughter, is working to liberate her island from the forces that oppress it.

Scoping things out, Ross and his lieutenant, Lee Christmas, discover that Garza’s a mere puppet in the hands of a rogue CIA agent who totes around a guy aptly named Paine like a pet Allosaurus. And it’s here where they’re supposed to take down the evil General Garza-a man also known for … killing. The next, they’re being sent to the island of Vilena, to kill again. The next, perhaps they’re in Burma, killing. It’s all about Barney Ross, a leathery, rough-hewn mercenary who leads a team of leathery, rough-hewn mercenaries. Forester write the thing?”Īnd so they greenlit Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables-an action movie that will never be mistaken for A Room With a View. “The screenplay was, like, pages long!” they said afterwards. It had too much backstory, too many characters, too few eviscerations to fully connect with its target audience. Perhaps the top executives at Lionsgate believed the film was just too complicated and deep. Joe: The Rise of Cobra apparently felt too highfalutin.

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