The Expendables
3 was, to me, a total waste of time. The guys tried to bring back the
glory days of action movies with The Expendables (2010) and The
Expendables 2 (2012), but here it felt like they were having fun while we
weren’t.
This third
installment is the longest in the series so far, and it added Wesley Snipes,
Harrison Ford, and Mel Gibson (as the antagonist) to the mix. The extra runtime
didn’t add to the fun—it just delayed the inevitable conclusion that “I just
wasted my time watching this.” The film felt never-ending, with the young crew
Barney (Sylvester Stallone) put together mixing with the old crew, flooding the
screen with too many people trying not to get killed.
I didn’t enjoy
any of the fight scenes or sequences, unlike in The Expendables 2 (2012),
where the final fight was worth the wait. Here, the final fight was dull. I
know Mel Gibson wasn’t much of a fistfighter in his movies, so I wasn’t
expecting much, but I didn’t expect such crappy fight choreography either.
Simon West (Con Air (1997) and Black Hawk Down (2001)), in my
opinion, is a better director (judging only by this movie series) than Patrick
Hughes. For me, West made the best use of the ensemble cast.
Here’s the
movie’s plot: Barney and his crew are on a mission (their second one after
extracting former Expendables member Doctor Death, played by Wesley Snipes,
from prison) to intercept an arms deal. Barney discovers that the arms dealer
is Conrad Stonebanks (Mel Gibson), the Expendables’ co-founder. The
interception goes sour, and Barney almost loses his team, with one member in
critical condition at the hospital.
Barney decides
to go after Conrad again, but this time with a new, younger team. It seems like
a good idea at first, but the plan quickly falls apart. Conrad captures the new
team and forces Barney to come rescue them. Barney then turns to his old team to
get the job done, with help from Harrison Ford, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Jet
Li.
The movie wasn’t
all bad, but the jokes were terrible. Antonio Banderas, however, wouldn’t stop
talking. It was annoying at first, but after a while, I found myself bored
whenever he wasn’t on screen blabbing.
To anyone who hasn’t had the “privilege” of seeing this movie yet—don’t, the movie does not meet up to the needed expectations.
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