Friday, September 19, 2014

Expendables 3

So I saw Expendables 3 yesterday and it was OK. The good thing about these movies is that you pretty much know what you're getting when you go to them, heavy on explosions and gunfire, light on emotions and making the main characters run a lot because these knees are what they used to be. For me the best part of this one was Antonio Banderas's character, who was really funny as an unemployed mercenary who just whats to kill people (It's all he's good at!). Mel Gibson was also a standout, playing essentially the gleefully evil death merchant character as in Machete Kills. The worst part was the young Expendables that they bring in during the movie. While I love a "getting the team together" montage as much as anything in movies, in the end I'm watching the Expendables to see these old guys doing action movie stuff, not young people with their drones and their dirt bikes and so on. Also, not nearly enough Dolph Lundgren or Terry Crews (Is there ever enough really? No.) While still a fine action movie, not as good as the previous Expendables movies, the current order of Expendables movies in order of quality is 2, 1, 3.



Also, my friend Chris makes a good point, in a movie where none of them die and they spend the third act rescuing half the team once they'be been captured, is anyone on this team ACTUALLY Expendable?

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