Plot
Barney augments his team with new blood for a personal battle: to take down Conrad Stonebanks, the Expendables co-founder and notorious arms trader who is hell bent on wiping out Barney and every single one of his associates.
Release Year: 2014
Rating: 6.2/10 (11,850 voted)
Critic's Score: 35/100
Director: Patrick Hughes
Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li
Storyline
Barney (Stallone), Christmas (Statham) and the rest of the team comes face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks (Gibson), who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney. Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to kill... or so he thought. Stonebanks, who eluded death once before, now is making it his mission to end The Expendables -- but Barney has other plans. Barney decides that he has to fight old blood with new blood, and brings in a new era of Expendables team members, recruiting individuals who are younger, faster and more tech-savvy. The latest mission becomes a clash of classic old-school style versus high-tech expertise in the Expendables' most personal battle yet.
Cast: Sylvester Stallone -
Barney Ross
Jason Statham -
Lee Christmas
Harrison Ford -
Drummer
Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Trench
Mel Gibson -
Stonebanks
Wesley Snipes -
Doc
Dolph Lundgren -
Gunnar Jensen
Randy Couture -
Toll Road
Terry Crews -
Caesar
Kelsey Grammer -
Bonaparte
Glen Powell -
Thorn
Antonio Banderas -
Galgo
Victor Ortiz -
Mars
Ronda Rousey -
Luna
Kellan Lutz -
Smilee
Trivia: Mel Gibson's character is a former SASR (Special Air Sevice Regiment) operative. This is a nod to Attack Force Z (1982), one of Gibson's early lead roles, in which he played a SASR member. See more »
Goofs:
At the start of the film when Barney and the team are trying to land a helicopter on a moving train and the soldiers inside open up with a giant machine gun, Barney drops the helicopter behind the train. He is so low that the railings of the copter are touching the tracks - however, in the next long shot, the helicopter is flying at least six to ten feet from the ground - then in the return shot, the helicopter is back on the tracks. See more »
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Rating: 4/10
I enjoyed the first two movies for what they were. They were fun rides
with old actors kicking ass and making jokes about how old they are.
The third installation of the series has both of those things, but,
sadly, not enough. The whole reason these movies exist is for us to
enjoy the nostalgia exploding through the screen while we listen to
crappy one-liners and bad jokes. This movie takes itself way too
seriously and, even though it tries, it just isn't self aware enough
for it to work. It spends a big portion of the plot introducing a bunch
of young characters pretty much no one cares about, and then it tries
to make us care about those people we've never seen in our lives
before. Needless to say, it does not succeed. All of a sudden we're
suppose to give a damn about these one dimensional characters, and I'm
not saying that the main cast has more dimensions than one, but we
don't need dimension. We don't need backstory. We don't need emotion.
We need to see old people doing over the top action, make old man jokes
and reference their old movies. The movie just takes itself too
seriously. There are jokes, but there are also dramatic moments which
just fall flat. The acting isn't that good either, and neither are the
new characters. It was cool to see Snipes back in action but his
character was pretty much useless and didn't make any sense plot wise.
Banderas was suppose to be annoying for the characters in the movie and
funny for the audience, but he was just annoying. Gibson's role was
pretty fun, even though he kind of just played the Joker. There's a
scene taken straight from The Dark Knight, but I didn't really mind it,
it was fun. Ford was just really plain and did nothing for the movie.
Overall it's one of the most boring action movies I've seen. It has
literally every single action movie cliché ever made, and the
performances were average at best. There are also moments where the CGI
is terrible and takes you away from the movie even more. I don't
recommend it unless you are a big fan ( a really really big fan).
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