It's the film's sheer lack of charm that proves terminal.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

It's the film's sheer lack of charm that proves terminal.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

As love letters to a friend go, this is one of the funniest and most likeable I’ve seen in a while.

~ Owen Van Spall -

As love letters to a friend go, this is one of the funniest and most likeable I’ve seen in a while.

~ Owen Van Spall -

Credit is due to John G Avildsen for directing (he won one of three trophies), but the real victory here belongs to Sly.

~ Stephen Carty -

Credit is due to John G Avildsen for directing (he won one of three trophies), but the real victory here belongs to Sly.

~ Stephen Carty -

Despite overdoing the mumbling a bit Stallone wins us over again with some nice dialogue.

~ Stephen Carty -

Despite overdoing the mumbling a bit Stallone wins us over again with some nice dialogue.

~ Stephen Carty -

One for the eyes and ears instead of the heart and head.

~ Stephen Carty -

One for the eyes and ears instead of the heart and head.

~ Stephen Carty -

Not full-on farce, but getting there.

~ Stephen Carty -

Not full-on farce, but getting there.

~ Stephen Carty -

Rocky’s necessary fall from grace back into the gutter makes us root for the big-hearted lug every south paw-jabbing step of the way.

~ Stephen Carty -

Rocky’s necessary fall from grace back into the gutter makes us root for the big-hearted lug every south paw-jabbing step of the way.

~ Stephen Carty -

Rocky Balboa does not disappoint when it comes to the staples of a Rocky picture - the hard-earned training (raw egg chugging and knuckle meat-tenderisers are welcome, present and correct) and thrilling fight footage

~ Scott Macdonald -

Rocky Balboa does not disappoint when it comes to the staples of a Rocky picture - the hard-earned training (raw egg chugging and knuckle meat-tenderisers are welcome, present and correct) and thrilling fight footage

~ Scott Macdonald -

Somewhere the plot hangs by a thread. All you have to do is find it. But you can't

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Somewhere the plot hangs by a thread. All you have to do is find it. But you can't

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Whatever reality First Blood had is well and truly gone now.

~ Gator MacReady -

Whatever reality First Blood had is well and truly gone now.

~ Gator MacReady -

This is brutal stuff, lashings of the old ultraviolence, with rivers of blood shed in the mud and the rain.

~ Andrew Robertson -

This is brutal stuff, lashings of the old ultraviolence, with rivers of blood shed in the mud and the rain.

~ Andrew Robertson -

A simple piece of mindlessly gratifying entertainment.

~ Scott Macdonald -

A simple piece of mindlessly gratifying entertainment.

~ Scott Macdonald -

Making sense of explosions on green screen is a tough call

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Making sense of explosions on green screen is a tough call

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

It’s wobbly on its feet, but it’s definitely got heart.

~ David Graham -

It’s wobbly on its feet, but it’s definitely got heart.

~ David Graham -

Stallone's energy and ambition knew no bounds in the Eighties.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Stallone's energy and ambition knew no bounds in the Eighties.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

You get what you pay for with a little bit of humour to lubricate the violence

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

You get what you pay for with a little bit of humour to lubricate the violence

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

This is a giant, proud B-movie, the kind of movie that Hollywood doesn’t put into multiplexes much any more.

~ Owen Van Spall -

This is a giant, proud B-movie, the kind of movie that Hollywood doesn’t put into multiplexes much any more.

~ Owen Van Spall -

Despite admirably attempting to appear otherwise, Miles Chaplin and Jason Keller’s script is transparently stoopid, but mostly in the best way.

~ David Graham -

Despite admirably attempting to appear otherwise, Miles Chaplin and Jason Keller’s script is transparently stoopid, but mostly in the best way.

~ David Graham -

The Expendables 2 has the cast you feel the first one should've had - though Steven Seagal is really needed to complete the alignment of the planets - but it fails to craft anything really unique on its own with these assets.

~ Owen Van Spall -

The Expendables 2 has the cast you feel the first one should've had - though Steven Seagal is really needed to complete the alignment of the planets - but it fails to craft anything really unique on its own with these assets.

~ Owen Van Spall -

Tired, bloated, crude, stumbling, and showing its age, Expendables as a franchise is perhaps a reflection of some of its cast.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Tired, bloated, crude, stumbling, and showing its age, Expendables as a franchise is perhaps a reflection of some of its cast.

~ Andrew Robertson -

The scriptwriters commit hari-kari, leaving the movie up to its neck in hokum.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The scriptwriters commit hari-kari, leaving the movie up to its neck in hokum.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The action sequences are state-of-the-art and there is a chase through the busy streets of Chicago in racing cars that is genuinely thrilling.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The action sequences are state-of-the-art and there is a chase through the busy streets of Chicago in racing cars that is genuinely thrilling.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

Coogler draws on the traditional elements of Rocky's success - strength of character in adversity, old-fashioned romance and, of course, a climactic fight - and tricks them out for the mobile phone generation to give them a new lease of life.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Coogler draws on the traditional elements of Rocky's success - strength of character in adversity, old-fashioned romance and, of course, a climactic fight - and tricks them out for the mobile phone generation to give them a new lease of life.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Bourbon Street and its surroundings have rarely seemed so authentically seedy.

~ David Graham -

Bourbon Street and its surroundings have rarely seemed so authentically seedy.

~ David Graham -

In addition to issues of physical discomfort, the film suffers from an unnecessarily convoluted and drawn out plot in which there's very little actually happening.

~ Jennie Kermode -

In addition to issues of physical discomfort, the film suffers from an unnecessarily convoluted and drawn out plot in which there's very little actually happening.

~ Jennie Kermode -