Expend4bles I was pretty meh about. It's a downgrade from the previous other movies in its series. This movie says it's in the Expendable series, but it doesn't feel like that for the whole movie. It just felt like the directors wanted to shine on how talented Jason Statham was in action movies and not really give screentime to the others (not like I cared about them, but Expendables has been about a team, not a lone wolf action dude, save it for John Wick). And no offense here to Statham; this dude has his moments in the action department but he will never reach the top tier action actor like Tom Cruise (for the Mission Impossible series) and Keanu Reeves (for the John Wick series). He tries I feel like too hard, but he isn't quite yet an elitist action actor. With Expendables not giving the old vibe it used to have, it doesn't feel right. All I wanted from the 4th film was to get some of the original crew back (not get Megan Fox and a dope amount of people I don't give a crap about) and make the action higher and better (maybe even make the stakes higher). But nope: instead of bonding even more with some of the OG crew, we get some new crappy characters who gets I swear 15 minutes of screen time each - the rest of the 1 hour 28 minutes screen time goes to Jason Statham. Overall, this movie delivers some on the action, none of the actual title (only about Jason Statham really), and the plot is meh. The only thing that's stopping this movie getting an even lower rating was I've seen worst than this - at least it entertains, and that's all it did!
Review of Expend4bles
Expend4bles
(2023)
If Expend4bles was as fun as the orginal, maybe it would have gotten a higher rating!
29 September 2023