Rated PG-13
Starring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Wesley Snipes, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mel Gibson, Jet Li, Terry Crews, Dolph Lundgren, Harrison Ford, Antonio Banderas
Directed by Patrick Hughes
The Story:
Barney (Stallone) is on a mission with the team when he runs across his old partner-in-crime, Stonebanks (Gibson). They founded the Expendables together, and Barney thought he was dead. Instead, it's Stonebanks who is going to try and kill Barney and his all new team that he has assembled. So naturally it's up to the old gang to help save the day and stop the bad guy.
Piece of cake!
I'm not sure how I feel about this entry in the franchise.
One, everything changes.
Gone is Bruce Willis, replaced by Harrison Ford. Meh... I guess that works.
Mel Gibson is given prime crazy time to chew scenery and play the bad guy, and he does that well. You know there will be a straight up fight at the end that will leave someone dead.
Only this time, Gibson plays the Gary Busey role!
:)
Then there is Wesley Snipes who gets out of prison, and winds up right back on the big screen. He seems to get quite a bit of screen time which throws off the chemistry of the main characters a bit, in my opinion.
In fact, that's the biggest problem with the film, look at that poster. There isn't enough time to have much character interaction because there are just too many characters.
Don't even get me started on how shortchanged Banderas' part is. : /
So naturally, of the 3, this is my least favorite of the franchise.
If it was the end, so be it. It was a fun ride. The first one was good, the second one was a hoot.
This one was a suitable bookmark.
Audiences seemed to have finally had enough, but really, it was more of the same.
I guess in reality though, we've gone through just about every action start out there.
Except Steven Seagal.
Or Michael Dudikoff.
There's hope for 4 yet!
Final Grade: C+
Rewatchability/Purchase Factor: Maybe...no hurry though.
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