Reviews for this film from our members:
- Dragan Antulov @ Draxblog VI [Croatian]
- José Arce @ LaButaca.net [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Sylvester y sus carnales siguen a tortas con los enemigos de la libertad en una nueva entrega que sigue entreteniendo como sus predecesoras. Más glorias fílmicas y más autoparodia para una aventura post-añeja.
- Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Bill Clark @ From The Balcony
- Tony Dayoub @ Cinema Viewfinder
- Excerpt: Where the first EXPENDABLES played like a shaggy, small-scale reprieve from career oblivion for former action stars Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, and Jet Li, this one feels like it’s lining up the burial plots. Where the second and best film in the series raised the stakes by bringing in Jean-Claude Van Damme as its villain and Chuck Norris as comic relief, THE EXPENDABLES 3 overplays its hand amassing a cast of has-beens and future never-will-bes of such an unwieldy size that few get a chance at making any kind of impression.
- Jim Dixon @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: You know they’re going to make “The Expendables 4.” Call, text, write or email Millennium Films and Nu Image, and insist they make it as a silent movie.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: The third movie is more of the same, although it makes some wrongheaded alterations.
- João Marcos Flores @ Cineviews [Portuguese]
- Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: For viewers who enjoyed the first two films, the second sequel, ‘The Expendables 3,’ offers much of the same with a fledgling twist.
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Tired franchise – filled with punishing chase scenes and repetitive gunfire.
- Vadym Grygoriev @ kinoblog.com [Ukrainian]
- [New – 2/5/15] | Blake Howard @ Graffiti with Punctuation
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: There’s just no point in even bothering. In the vast conspiracy of stupidity that has overtaken pop culture, the disparagement of this movie by a film critic becomes an endorsement of a sad, twisted sort.
- Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: Reading the cast list should be the sole arbiter on whether or not you will spend money to see the latest iteration of masculine menopause, of former A-list stars reciting B-movie lines and hamming it up for over the top self-parody.
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: Delivering on the bread and butter of the action genre, “The Expendables 3” entertains once in a while on a junky, brain-dead level, but the rest of the time, it’s wearisome and you’ll be checking your watch.
- Oktay Ege Kozak @ Oregon Herald
- Excerpt: There’s not much here to complain about or praise. If you enjoyed the first two movies, all you’ll be looking forward to is the same product with around 20% more action and a Wesley Snipes, Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson boost.
- Glenn Lovell @ CinemaDope.com
- Excerpt: … bigger, slicker, better directed that the other installments … In spots it resembles a ‘Fast & Furious’ adventure.
- James Marsh @ The Society For Film
- Excerpt: The Expendables 3 accomplishes an almost impossible task, managing to be the most enjoyable entry in the franchise so far, while simultaneously breaking almost every rule of Stallone’s original mission statement in the process. As a result the film is light and breezy viewing, but ultimately a frustrating experience.
- Ross Miller @ Thoughts On Film
- Excerpt: No less bombastic than you might expect, but something feels off this time around. It’s neither as bloody as the first one nor as tirelessly self-referential as the second, but rather feels curiously flat and lacking in verve.
- Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: An Expendable entry, perhaps?
- Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
- Excerpt: It’s slickly-made and better-produced than the first two films in the series, and that’s precisely the problem: while The Expendables 3 is a better film in most technical regards, it’s lost the goofy charm and rough edges that made the first two movies fun.
