Review of The Expendables 3 (2014) by Kadeemluvmusic — 03 Sep 2014

I felt that the Expendables 3 should've stick back to its R-rated form filled with all but blood, gore, more violence and some cheesey 80's one-liners. But this year, I kinda lost touch with the 3rd movie.

The first 2 was beyond awesome showcasing 80's and 90's action gems into nothing more than a testosterone Rambo meets Road House-style nostalgic reminisce of kick-ass guns blazing action. The 3rd, however, is kinda dumb and not in a good way.

For starters, the new cast is weak (except "Rowdy" Ronda Rousey, the first female UFC women's champion, she did a great job in her first acting role) because I don't know why who told it would be a great idea to add an action nobody Kellan Lutz (from the crappy Legend of Hercules), an MMA legend (Victor Ortiz), the actor from "The Goonies," and an unknown actor (Glen Powell) to be in the list of weared-down action heroes.

The action scenes were almost as good as usual, but they toned down the violence and the blood that was supposed to be covered were dreadful. The script is lackluster at best, character conversations feels like Love Connection, there's no Jet Li on it, and But the biggest problem is that they make an excuse to make this an unnecessary PG-13 rating to aim less on mature audiences an drew at kids and parents as well.

Adding insult to injury, it was the piracy to blame for this one-note joke of a sometimes almost good sequel. Maybe the studio just thought about this to happen once it was released three weeks before the movie even have to wait to buy it on DVD once the movie's run in the theater is over.

And that's leading to the supposed downfall of The Expendables. I know they're making a 4th film soon, but can they just end the series right about now? I'm not saying the movie is terrible and all, but my only concern is Arnie and Sly's action movie status.

I think it's about time they should hang it up and retire because there's not much left for the fans what they want in a action movie.