Synopsis
Barney, Christmas and the rest of the team comes face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks, 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.
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Cast
- Sylvester StalloneBarney Ross
- Jason StathamLee Christmas
- Harrison FordMax Drummer
- Mel GibsonConrad Stonebanks
- Arnold SchwarzeneggerTrench
- Antonio BanderasGalgo
- Jet LiYin Yang
- Wesley SnipesDoc
- Dolph LundgrenGunner Jensen
- Kelsey GrammerBonaparte
Recommendations
- 67
Hitfix
It is forgettable fluff, but well-delivered, and it suggests that they'll be able to keep making these as long as they can prop up the cast, and with the younger generation making a decent showing this time out, they may even be able to hand it off when the time comes. - 60
Total Film
The Expendables 3 marks a sizeable improvement on the first two outings. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Hughes and cinematographer Peter Menzies Jr. handle the assignment skillfully enough, but without much imagination, sticking to a conventional action style that is more about the quantity of explosions than nuances of execution. - 40
The Telegraph
You can’t help but wonder if some important people in boardrooms watched the last two Expendables films and, between sips of mineral water, diligently noted all the ways in which the third might be made slicker and more polished, without realising the franchise’s doughy unslickness was the wellspring of its charm. - 40
The Guardian
[A] blundering jackhammer of a film. - 40
TheWrap
The Expendables 3 is silly and overblown, yes, and it could definitely do without Antonio Banderas‘ motor-mouth routine (not to mention an out-of-nowhere reference to Benghazi), but it's less silly and overblown than “The Expendables 2,” for whatever that's worth. - 40
Time Out London
Thank the gods of war for Antonio Banderas, who single-handedly steals (and almost saves) the show as a loquacious assassin. - 30
Austin Chronicle
What the movie ultimately demonstrates is that the sum total is less than the individual parts when you add together Rocky, the Terminator, Indiana Jones, Mad Max, Blade, Zorro, Hercules, and the Transporter.
