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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), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) and Blood Diamond (2006). All three share The Expendables 2's kinetic and tense 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
9 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Amazon Prime Video

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

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

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

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

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

The difference: Easier on the scale than The Expendables 2

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

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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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2022 · dir. Ryan Coogler
🍅 84%★ 6.6action · adventure · science fictionDisney+

A team closes ranks and fights back after losing one of their own

The difference: Superhero spectacle and mourning a king, not aging soldiers for hire

Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M’Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s death. As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must band together with the help of War Dog Nakia and Everett Ross and forge a new path for the kingdom of Wakanda.

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Maze Runner: The Death Cure
2018 · dir. Wes Ball
🍅 43%★ 6.3science fiction · action · adventureMax

Epic adventure in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to science fiction than The Expendables 2 does

Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who makes it out alive will get answers to the questions the Gladers have been asking since they first arrived in the maze.

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Apocalypto
2006 · dir. Mel Gibson
🍅 65%★ 7.9action · drama · historyPrime VideoHulu

A brutal chase through hostile territory reduces life to pure survival

The difference: Ancient-world manhunt on foot, no guns, no team, no wisecracks

Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate break to return home and to ultimately save his way of life.

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Self/less
2015 · dir. Tarsem Singh
🍅 18%★ 6.5science fiction · action · thriller

Melancholy action, and it commits to that

An extremely wealthy elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy young man but everything may not be as good as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body's origins and the secret organization that will kill to keep its secrets.

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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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