6. Tool's Monologue - The Expendables
The Expendables is known as a big, bombastic behemoth of an action movie. The film and the franchise it spawned relies on the massive marketing draw of reuniting classic action heroes for new team-up adventures. You wouldnt expect, then, to witness a lengthy monologue about the emotional cost of being a soldier, and a killer. But thats exactly what happens when Sly Stallones Barney character seeks advice from Mickey Rourkes Tool one night. If had saved that woman, laments Tool about a distant memory of war and death, I mightve saved what was left of my soul. In this scene, the genre suddenly switches from action to drama, with Rourke more than handling the sizeable transition. If it was in a different movie, that monologue couldve been Oscar-worthy. Almost.