Plot: After Ross and some of the more constant Expendables rescued an old member named Doctor Death, they head out to take out a deadly arms dealer, only to find out that the dealer named Stonebanks, is a co-creator of the Expendables who betrayed them years ago and was thought to be dead. Things go sour in trying to take him down when a fellow Expendable named Caesar is severely wounded while Stonebanks escapes. Back in the U.S., Ross decides to fire the rest of the Expendables so that they can live their lives, and so hire new, younger people to take their places to try to take down Stonebanks.
Well I stated how I was bored to sleep with the first film while having a ton of fun with the second one. But on my conclusion paragraph on my review for the second one, I stated that while I hoped this movie would be good, I had my doubts, particularly with how they were going to top the climax from the second film. And the plain answer to that is...they don't...in fact they take a few steps backwards. Is it as bad as the first movie? ...well...no, it was more interesting than that movie for what it was worth, but we still were given a lot less. This one kind of sort of gives us a mixture of how much balance between action and down time. So where the first movie had way too much down time and the second movie had the right balance, this movie had a little more down time while still giving us more action than that movie. And even when the down time is there, it was still a little interesting. I mean you had introducing the new, young Expendables...even if it was really just the woman that was interesting while the rest of them were easily forgettable, you had this whole conflict between Ross and the old Expendables that is silly and predicable but kind of likable, and the moments when Ross is interacting with Kelsay Grammer as Bonaparte or Harrison Ford as Drummer weren't half bad...or at least were a crap ton more interesting than Ross just yammering with Mickey Rorke's character in the first movie. (Sorry for bringing that up again, that just really killed that movie for me.) Then there's the two biggest highlights of the film: Antonio Banderas and Mel Gibson. They were the most fun parts of the movie. For Banderas...he was admittingly annoying in a couple of scenes and on one occasion really weird, but for the most part, he was the one that actually made me chuckle during this film. And Gibson was even more fun as the villain. In fact, he is easily the most interesting villain in the entire trilogy. The character himself was as silly and stupid as generic villains come - basically to the point of a Bond villain - but Gibson seemed to have decide to have fun with it, and so he was pretty fun for me. But besides the two ups and the couple of half-ups I just gave, the film just. Wasn't. Fun. If you just want to seem to just shooting people and all that, fine. But really, that's as big as the film really got. The second film was practically imaginative with how it had all these different kinds of fights, chases, guns, tanks, and all these things that made a darn good amount of the Expendables themselves stand out in terms of how they fight or what kind of weapons they have. They knew they had to go as big as possible or go home. And in the end, it wasn't just fun, it was an epic amount of fun. Here, they didn't even really try to go any bigger. The closest thing to different from just guns and machetes in this film was mainly motorcycles, tanks and a couple of helicopters. I saw this movie with Blaine, and he personally blames this whole thing on the director, Patrick Hughes. And while I don't know if that's true for a fact, there's no denying that whoever you really have to blame, the director, Stallone, or whoever, there's no denying that the person who is to blame, really failed to think big enough.
And that's my review for The Expendables 3. While I don't hate it like the first movie, and it does have some nice elements like Banderas and Gibson, it still came out as slightly entertaining, but mostly lacking in terms of just having fun and trying (in any way) to be any bigger than the second film. Not the worst, but it's not the best. So if you still just want to see the cast kill a bunch of people, you'll still get it, but if you want that in a way that makes it a ton of fun to the point where it's epic...just stick with the second movie.
Rating: 40%
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