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Movies that feel likeThe Expendables 2 (2012)

Mr. Church reunites the Expendables for what should be an easy paycheck, but when one of their men is murdered on the job, their quest for revenge puts them deep in enemy territory and up against an unexpected threat.

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).

🍅 68% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Simon Westkineticepictensemelancholy
10 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Amazon Prime Video · Apple TV

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Expendables (2010) · The Expendables 3 (2014)

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In the Heart of the Sea
2015 · dir. Ron Howard
🍅 42%★ 6.9thriller · drama · adventure

Both land momentum and scale at once

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe—a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance.

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The Grey
2012 · dir. Joe Carnahan
🍅 80%★ 6.7action · adventure · thrillerNetflix

Hardened men band together against a relentless, merciless enemy

The difference: Wolves in the Alaskan wild replace the gunrunners and warlords

After their plane crashes in Alaska, six oil workers are led by a skilled huntsman to survival, but a pack of merciless wolves haunts their every step.

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On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969 · dir. Peter R. Hunt
🍅 81%★ 6.7adventure · action · thrillerPrime Video

Tense and melancholy in the same breath

The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft

With the help of Marc-Ange Draco, head of the Unione Corse crime syndicate, and Draco's troubled daughter Tracy, James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Stravro Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss Alps, where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women.

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Blood Diamond
2006 · dir. Edward Zwick
🍅 64%★ 8drama · thriller · actionApple TV+

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

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.

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Plane
2023 · dir. Jean-François Richet
🍅 79%★ 6.5action · adventure · thrillerRent or buy

Common ground: airplane

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

After a heroic job of successfully landing his storm-damaged aircraft in a war zone, a fearless pilot finds himself between the agendas of multiple militias planning to take the plane and its passengers hostage.

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13 Assassins
2010 · dir. Takashi Miike
🍅 95%★ 7.5adventure · drama · actionPrime Video

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

The difference: Trades the tension of The Expendables 2 for an angle of its own

A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.

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Poseidon
2006 · dir. Wolfgang Petersen
🍅 33%★ 5.7adventure · action · drama

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

A packed cruise ship traveling the Atlantic is hit and overturned by a massive wave, compelling the passengers to begin a dramatic fight for their lives.

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Cell 211
2009 · dir. Daniel Monzón
🍅 98%★ 7.6action · thriller · dramaNetflix

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

The difference: Leans harder into drama than The Expendables 2 does

The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.

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London Has Fallen
2016 · dir. Babak Najafi
🍅 28%★ 5.9action · adventure · thriller

Adventure built on scale, twice over

In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.

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The Three Musketeers
2011 · dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
🍅 27%★ 5.7adventure · action · thrillerPrime Video

Kinetic action, and it commits to that

The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.

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Hero
2002 · dir. Zhang Yimou
★ 7.9drama · adventure · action

Warriors settle old scores with the same larger-than-life, epic scale

The difference: Poetic wuxia swordplay, a world away from machine-gun mercenaries

During China's Warring States period, a district prefect arrives at the palace of Qin Shi Huang, claiming to have killed the three assassins who had made an attempt on the king's life three years ago.

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Anna
2019 · dir. Luc Besson
🍅 33%★ 6.7action · adventure · thriller

Epic adventure in both cases

Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.

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