"The Expendables 3" PG 13
Stallone and his ragged band of GI Joe special ops 'expendables' return for another go around, feeling their ages, so they recruits some unknown younger guys to help them fight crime all over the globe. The original premise of this, and likely of the spin off planned for later, is that these are washed out old action stars. Putting in new action stars just makes them redundant, like sitting through a remake of a remake. Since this newest installment is like watching seven different 80's action flicks rolled into one, it's time for some new younger stars.Also it is only PG13.
Stallone is hired gun once again with Lungren, Statham and Crews, and now Snipes is along for the ride this time, as is Kelsey Grammer and Harrison Ford. Schwarzenegger gets more lines, most of them cribbing lines from his other movies. His favorite seems to be "Get to the chopper!" this time.
It never really made sense to include Crews, but Statham kind of makes sense. And Kelsey Grammer, just because of X Men, really? Where's Mr. T? I pity them without Mr. T. (A Team reference). How about Hulk Hogan?
This time Mel Gibson is the heavy, the first Expendable apparently, who has gone rogue and wants to buy artwork in seedy countries so that he can secretly make arms deals, and blow a lot of stuff up in the process.
Stallone is sent to stop Gibson but he has to enlist the help of Ford, the temporary replacement for Willis from the other movies, so that he can get a new team together after Crews is injured.
The action follows in several make believe countries from eastern Europe to South America. Along the way, the old heroes and the new ones come together to attempt to stop the bad guy in an epic fight involving some kind of Latino army and Gibson in an abandoned city skyscraper complex. They even use the old 'we have a bomb set to go off in 2 minutes' gag, which goes on for 45 minutes, thanks to a jamming device that is running low on batteries, for the same amount of time.
The odd thing is the new crew, who are quite different from the premise. If the idea is they're supposed to be movie action stars, only the guy from Twilight has been in anything, and it was a fantasy series! The girl and one of the guys are MMA fighters, but have never been in major film roles.
So they've ducked the premise of their being 'action stars' and said siad they're upcoming stars, maybe.
And why haven't they let Jet Li do any martial arts in this?
This movie was more hyper than the other two, which isn't better necessarily.If they dodge bullets and mortars so much, how can one of them even get hurt? Many more questions will arise watching this. Most of them are answered though by, oh it was done in the 1980s like this.
And if you're going to rip off the A Team, where the heck is Mr. T? Where's Dwight Schultz?
Wouldn't Chris Pine have made sense rather than the Twilight werewolf?
Antonion Bandaras though it spot on. His character acts with Stallone quite demented and comes off as this nutty eager ex patriot.
Harrison Ford also seems to be enjoying being grumpy and also delights in pretend helicopter action.
Well there is is, another movie. When the finish the Expenda-Belles, it will be reviewed, but they didn't get Sigoruney Weaver, so expect at least that complaint next time. (That is the name of the fourth one,).
Review by Adam Browne
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