The Expendables 3 Review

Sylvester Stallone is on a mission and at the apex of his Hollywood powers, he’s taking a play out of Clint Eastwood’s book and the results are projects like The Expendables trilogy that couldn’t be any less Stallonesque in action and explosion (take note Michael Bay). Sure he’s stacking his cast with the heavyweights of action movies like Statham, Ford, Schwarzenegger and Snipes, but the outcome is something that audiences of action movies might be a bit surprised at: I care about the characters in The Expendables 3 (all fifteen hundred of them). They’re all thinking the same thing, “What’s the split on this movie’s gross?”   The Expendables 3, for the most part, succeeds where Schwarzeneggar’s Sabotage fails. While Sabotage revolves mostly around Schwarzenegger’s mystique as a plagued action hero, the rest of the new comers around him are largely forgettable. Stallone trumps this trope with his selected few new comers both to action movies and The Expendables franchise by doubling down on the already star studed cast with Wesley Snipes, Harrison Ford, Antonio Banderas and Mel Gibson. The movie opens up with all guns-a-blazin’ (pun intended) for an action sequence that lasts probably for the first 30 minutes of run time. We’re introduced to Wesley Snipes’ character who’s been in prison for the last decade. I’m by no means any sort of soldier of fortune or even ever did any stint in the military so I can’t speak to those relationships but I can say that if I spent that a…