{"id":1166,"date":"2014-08-18T12:59:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T16:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2014-08-18T13:44:41","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T17:44:41","slug":"movie-review-expendables-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2014\/08\/18\/movie-review-expendables-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: &#8216;The Expendables 3&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Brought to you by our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/reelworth.com\/reviews\/expendables-3\/\">Reel Worth<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"line-header\">Movie Info<\/div>\n<ul class=\"review-credits\">\n<li><span class=\"term\">Director: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/reelworth.com\/director\/patrick-hughes\/\" rel=\"tag\">Patrick Hughes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"term\">Genres: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/reelworth.com\/genre\/action\/\" rel=\"tag\">Action<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"term\">Rating: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/reelworth.com\/rating\/pg-13\/\" rel=\"tag\">PG-13<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"term\">Release Date: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/reelworth.com\/release-date\/15-august-2014\/\" rel=\"tag\">15 August 2014<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"term\">Screenwriter: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/reelworth.com\/screenwriter\/dave-callaham\/\" rel=\"tag\">Dave Callaham<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/reelworth.com\/screenwriter\/sylvester-stallone\/\" rel=\"tag\">Sylvester Stallone<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"term\">Starring: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/reelworth.com\/celebrity\/antonio-banderas-2\/\" rel=\"tag\">Antonio Banderas<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/reelworth.com\/celebrity\/arnold-schwarzenegger\/\" rel=\"tag\">Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/reelworth.com\/celebrity\/harrison-ford-3\/\" rel=\"tag\">Harrison Ford<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/reelworth.com\/celebrity\/jason-statham\/\" rel=\"tag\">Jason Statham<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/reelworth.com\/celebrity\/mel-gibson-2\/\" rel=\"tag\">Mel Gibson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/reelworth.com\/celebrity\/ronda-rousey\/\" rel=\"tag\">Ronda Rousey<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/reelworth.com\/celebrity\/sylvester-stallone\/\" rel=\"tag\">Sylvester Stallone<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/reelworth.com\/celebrity\/wesley-snipes\/\" rel=\"tag\">Wesley Snipes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000\">What Worked?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once again, Sylvester Stallone and company are back to spill blood and yell out manly things. <em>The Expendables 3<\/em> continues the old school action of the first two installments, but brings in a whole new fresh set of <a href=\"http:\/\/reelworth.com\/reviews\/the-expendables-2-2012\/\">Expendables<\/a> for added chaos. Stallone is joined by Wesley Snipes, Mel Gibson, <a href=\"http:\/\/reelworth.com\/reviews\/mechanic-the-2011\/\">Jason Statham<\/a>, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dolph Lundgren, Terry Crews, Ronda Rousey, Antonio Banderas, and many more for another old school punch to the gut.<\/p>\n<p>Director Patrick Hughes carves up the action, as he continues the story of Barney (Stallone), Christmas (Statham), and the rest of the crew as they go up against an ex-expendable: Conrad Stonebanks (Gibson). This film is truly an acquired taste in the cinematic world. If it was a meal it would be equivalent to beef jerky, cheddar cheese, and a six pack of your favorite brew. The script is made up of one-liners and the action is ridiculously bold. What it has going for it the most is simply this: we get to see our favorite veteran action heroes do the man dance one more time.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the cast of old-school action stars seem to be having fun, even though the script takes them to an \u201cend of the road\u201d sort of deal that\u2019s been done to death. The interaction between the cast members is just a joy to watch. They\u2019re not doing anything special, but they are sharing the screen together and racking up a high body count. We get to see Snipes cut people up again, and also see Rambo and Riggs go toe-to-toe.<\/p>\n<p>At its best, <em>The Expendables 3<\/em> is an action-hero party. At one point, you see Harrison Ford flying a helicopter with Jet Li and Arnold Schwarzenegger manning the machine guns. It\u2019s like a \u201cyour argument is invalid\u201d meme come to life.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000\">Potential Drawbacks:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It just isn\u2019t as fun anymore. Essentially, we\u2019re given the same type of film with newer additions, but there\u2019s nothing the series can offer us that\u2019s fresh. Sure, it\u2019s good enough for a matinee, especially if you\u2019re an action junkie, but that\u2019s about it.<\/p>\n<p>The addition of the younger expendables seemed useless, as they could have done more with it. The story line was simply boring. They missed an opportunity to make things a little crazier than the previous two installments, but they stuck to the main template yet again. In addition, Gibson wasn\u2019t as good of a villain as Jean-Claude Van Damme.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, this is probably the worst <em>Expendables<\/em> film in the trilogy. It doesn\u2019t have the novelty of the first film or the energy of the second film. It might be a good time to retire.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Expendables 3<\/em> is rated PG-13 and is currently in theaters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brought to you by our friends at Reel Worth Movie Info Director: Patrick Hughes Genres: Action Rating: PG-13 Release Date: 15 August 2014 Screenwriter: Dave Callaham, Sylvester Stallone Starring: Antonio Banderas, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Harrison Ford, Jason Statham, Mel Gibson, Ronda Rousey, Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes What Worked? Once again, Sylvester Stallone and company are back<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2014\/08\/18\/movie-review-expendables-3\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":1169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,138,1],"tags":[622,623,621,624,625,626,627,628,629],"class_list":{"0":"post-1166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movie-reviews","8":"category-movies","9":"category-uncategorized","10":"tag-antonio-banderas","11":"tag-arnold-schwarzenegger","12":"tag-expendables-3","13":"tag-harrison-ford","14":"tag-jason-statham","15":"tag-mel-gibson","16":"tag-ronda-rousey","17":"tag-sylvester-stallone","18":"tag-wesley-snipes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}