The Expendables 3
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The Expendables 3 (2014)

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6.3
5 platform(s) · 7 ratings 320,156 votes
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External reviews

Odie Henderson · RogerEbert.com 75.00/100.00

This has to be an intentional wink from Stallone and his contemporaries. They know their days are not only numbered as action stars, but probably should have ended long ago.

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Ignatiy Vishnevetsky · The A.V. Club 58.00/100.00

With its third entry, the Sylvester Stallone-led Expendables franchise finally becomes the live-action Saturday morning cartoon it was always destined to be.

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Tom Russo · Boston Globe 63.00/100.00

It’s a preposterously overstuffed strategy that, go figure, not only works, but even cures a thing or two that ailed the previous movies.

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Chris Nashawaty · Entertainment Weekly 75.00/100.00

So let me just say that this latest rah-rah red-meat installment is the biggest and best surprise of the series. It has its flaws, but it's mostly a big, dumb, gruntingly monosyllabic hoot.

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Drew Taylor · The Playlist 67.00/100.00

There have been some reports that this is the last entry in the series, but it feels like the franchise is (finally) just getting started. "The Expendables 4" anyone?

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Simon Crook · Empire 60.00/100.00

The Expendables 3 has its cake and shoots it: armed to the nipples with vast action and bulging A-listers, but over-over-blown and overcrowded. See it for Gibson’s big-bad.

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Roger Moore · McClatchy-Tribune News Service 50.00/100.00

Antonio Banderas pretty much steals The Expendables 3. But at this stage in that winded franchise, that amounts to petty theft.

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Drew McWeeny · Hitfix 67.00/100.00

It is forgettable fluff, but well-delivered, and it suggests that they'll be able to keep making these as long as they can prop up the cast, and with the younger generation making a decent showing this time out, they may even be able to hand it off when the time comes.

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Justin Lowe · The Hollywood Reporter 50.00/100.00

Hughes and cinematographer Peter Menzies Jr. handle the assignment skillfully enough, but without much imagination, sticking to a conventional action style that is more about the quantity of explosions than nuances of execution.

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Jamie Graham · Total Film 60.00/100.00

The Expendables 3 marks a sizeable improvement on the first two outings.

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