
Movies that feel likeThe Expendables 2 (2012)
If you loved The Expendables 2, the closest films we have are In the Heart of the Sea (2015), The Grey (2012) and On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). All three share The Expendables 2's kinetic and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is 13 Assassins (2010).
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If The Expendables 2 hit the spot, these will too
Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Expendables (2010) · The Expendables 3 (2014)

Both land momentum and scale at once
The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Hardened men band together against a relentless, merciless enemy
The difference: Wolves in the Alaskan wild replace the gunrunners and warlords

Tense and melancholy in the same breath
The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft

A grizzled mercenary drawn into one last job that turns personal and bloody
The difference: A grounded war drama about atrocity, not a wisecracking team shootout

Common ground: airplane
The difference: Takes it somewhere less melancholy than The Expendables 2 does

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases
The difference: Trades the tension of The Expendables 2 for an angle of its own

Ensemble races against a collapsing structure with life-or-death stakes
The difference: A capsized-ship disaster, not gunslingers hunting the men who wronged them

Both lean on tension more than on thriller
The difference: Leans harder into drama than The Expendables 2 does

Adventure built on scale, twice over

Kinetic action, and it commits to that

Warriors settle old scores with the same larger-than-life, epic scale
The difference: Poetic wuxia swordplay, a world away from machine-gun mercenaries

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