MOVIE REVIEW: The Expendables 3

REVIEWED BY: Daleen Swanepoel

GENRE: Action/thriller

DIRECTED BY: Patrick Hughes

STARRING: Mel Gibson, Kelsey Grammer, Antonio Banderas, Sylvester Stallone, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Harrison Ford, Terry Crews, Kellan Lutz, Randy Couture, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dolph Lungren, Wesley Snipes and Robert Davi.

RUNNING TIME: 127 minutes

RATING: 4/10

Barney (Sylvester Stallone) comes face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks (Mel Gibson), with whom he co-founded the Expendables years earlier. Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to kill or so he thought. Stonebanks is now making it his mission to put an end to the Expendables. Barney decides he has to fight old blood with new blood and brings in a new era of Expendables team members, recruiting individuals who are younger, faster and more tech-savvy.

VERDICT:

There is excessive fighting and shooting without any real story-line although special effects were good. The actors were great, but that was about the best part of the movie. Personally I did not enjoy it, but if you like special effects and tonnes of action, then you might have a different opinion.