
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), 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).
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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

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

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases
The difference: Takes it somewhere less tense than The Expendables 2 does

Both lean on tension more than on thriller
The difference: Easier on the scale than The Expendables 2

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

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 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

Epic adventure in both cases
The difference: Sits closer to science fiction than The Expendables 2 does

A brutal chase through hostile territory reduces life to pure survival
The difference: Ancient-world manhunt on foot, no guns, no team, no wisecracks

Melancholy action, and it commits to that

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