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In Theaters Now
- 2023
- R
- Lionsgate
- 1 h 43 m
- 2023
- R
- Lionsgate
- 1 h 43 m
Summary A new generation join the world’s top action stars for an adrenaline-fueled adventure in Expend4bles. Reuniting as the team of elite mercenaries, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, and Sylvester Stallone are joined for the first time by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Megan Fox, Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Jacob Scipio, Levy Tran, and Andy...
Directed By: Scott Waugh
Written By: Kurt Wimmer, Tad Daggerhart, Max Adams, Spenser Cohen, Dave Callaham
In Theaters Now
- 2023
- R
- Lionsgate
- 1 h 43 m
- 2023
- R
- Lionsgate
- 1 h 43 m
Expend4bles
29
4.6
Where to Watch
Summary A new generation join the world’s top action stars for an adrenaline-fueled adventure in Expend4bles. Reuniting as the team of elite mercenaries, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, and Sylvester Stallone are joined for the first time by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Megan Fox, Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Jacob Scipio, Levy Tran, and Andy...
Directed By: Scott Waugh
Written By: Kurt Wimmer, Tad Daggerhart, Max Adams, Spenser Cohen, Dave Callaham
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally unfavorable
Based on 29 Critic Reviews
29
7% Positive
2 Reviews
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31% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
62% Negative
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Metascore
Generally unfavorable
Based on 29 Critic Reviews
29
7% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
31% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
62% Negative
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
It took the franchise four tries, but with Expend4bles, they’ve finally made a solid and consistently effective action movie.
Watching the cast of Expend4bles, the latest instalment of the thunderously dumb veteran mercenary franchise, sweating and straining their way through the “casual banter” section of the screenplay is like watching contestants on The World’s Strongest Man attempting to climb a ladder while carrying a tractor tyre. It’s painful.
User Score
Mixed or average
Based on 23 User Ratings
4.6
26% Positive
6 Ratings
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35% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
39% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or average
Based on 23 User Ratings
4.6
26% Positive
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
35% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
39% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
Jason Statham is the only bit of genuine oomph in a tired tale whose digital effects could have been shot on an iPhone.
Expend4bles may be the best of the series. This is not a compliment to Waugh's film, but a mere note on how badly this series of films has fared over the last 13 years. These are useless, badly written gimmick films whose gimmicks never bore fruit. As the title implies, the flick is expendable. Or perhaps expend4ble.
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The action beats have a nonsensical excitement to them. The chases are competently shot and edited and the fight scenes still play. But it’s all so weary and overfamiliar, giving one the sense that many involved stopped trying on the first take or third rewrite. It’s just gassed.
The first thing you need to know about Expendables 4 is that its studio somehow made the grating decision to fashion its title as Expend4ble. It’s a needless spelling challenge for a dull and vulgar flick with a lot of empty-calories muscle, but little-to-no skill or fun to spare.
The problem is that for all its R-rated ambitions, none of the kills in Expend4bles is particularly inventive, memorable, or even base-level fun. For a movie centred on the cathartic pleasures of mercenary murder, the only death wish that audiences will walk away muttering is one directed straight at the screen.
Expend4bles, the fourth installment in this mostly average franchise, with the second Expendables movie being the only one i like, the good news is Expend4bles was the other one that i can safely say i mostly like but the movie also have so many flawed, one of them was that Expend4bles contains some of if not the worst green screen in movie i've ever seen, The Expendables franchise was already been known for not having the best green screen and special effects in their movies, but this one was just too horrendous and terrible looking, i wish the movie has more to the new characters, and the story itself while i'm still engaged and fine with it at the end, it still could've been better with another decision, performances was mostly good, Iko Uwais while he is a terrific fighter and that what makes his villain charisma still works even though he's acting wasn't the best but wasn't terrible either, so comes the positive of Expend4bles and it's no other than the action, the action was exciting and brutal which i really enjoyed, Jason Statham was again the most badass, the story while it flawed i was still engaged, i was completely fine with all the new characters and they were simply way better than the new characters they have in the third movie, performances again already mentioned was mostly good, and i was very entertained and not bored the whole time and that's the most important and the best thing, i was bored on the first and the third movie, this one i was entertained and really enjoying the madness, so it leaves me with positive feeling mostly for Expend4bles, a very flawed but also very entertaining action movie.
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The first assemblage of aging action stars was in 2010 and this latest movie features some of the originals, plus younger ones in an attempt to keep it fresh and appealing…which ain't working. Sylvester Stallone leads the pack on a mission to save the world from another rogue with nuclear detonators. Thus begins an almost non-stop barrage of noise and blurs framed as action, but this time it becomes a Jason Statham movie. He gets at least half of the fights, which translates into dozens of deaths. The wiseass remarks that are supposed to pass as witty banter are bland. The almost continuous boisterous battles just become a montage of mess and the plot couldn't get more absurd. Let's just hope there isn't another sequel, because it can't get much worse.
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Production Company
Campbell Grobman Films,
Media Capital Technologies,
Millennium Films,
Nu Boyana Film Studios
Release Date Sep 22, 2023
Duration 1 h 43 m
Rating R
Tagline They'll Die When They're Dead
