The movie borrows so liberally from other action films that it starts to feel at times a bit like a BuzzFeed listicle.

| Dec 31, 2015

Yes, it's pretty much the same mixture as before, but slicker and more polished, and I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 19, 2014

If they're expendable, why won't they die?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 17, 2014

The Expendables franchise has never been as meta-textual as a series featuring every movie hard-arse on the planet ought to be.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2014

At this point, the Expendables have formed and reformed so many times they're like the world's most macho wife swap, the action version of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 15, 2014

A lot of the time it's difficult to work out who'd doing what to whom. But, in the end, it doesn't matter much.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 15, 2014

Stallone is the square-jawed hero. Gibson is the square-jawed villain -- and that's about as much story as we get.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 15, 2014

The Expendables 3, trading on our affection for action stars of the past, has officially worn out its already shaky welcome.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 15, 2014

Those first two movies look like Seven Samurai next to The Expendables 3, a sad, bad, parade of uninspired cameos and listless violence.

| Aug 15, 2014

The film's sporadic set pieces simply aren't captivating enough to forgive all the movie's other faults.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 15, 2014

The third installment in Sylvester Stallone's jobs program for expired action heroes is easily the best of the bunch, which is not to say it's any good.

| Aug 15, 2014

As dopey and bloodless as the action sequences are, they keep the film moving at a brisker pace than its 2-hour-plus running time indicates.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 15, 2014

It could - it should - be appalling. Actually, as pure entertainment it's a joy, and will be adored amid Heineken bottles and Papa John's boxes for years to come.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 15, 2014

Proof that sometimes even your low expectations can be far too high.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 15, 2014

"The Expendables" series deserves a movie as muscular as its stars. For now, "The Expendables 3" isn't it.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 15, 2014

This Sylvester Stallone franchise has devolved into the clown car of action movies: a casting gimmick to see how many AARP actors you can cram into one vehicle.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 15, 2014

The overall tone of the film is jaunty, almost upbeat, the atmosphere that of an end-of-season trip with a lot of explosions.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 14, 2014

Everything I said about the last two movies, plus some new additions from the AARP action heroes club, plus a couple of Expendable interns to bring down the median age a bit.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 14, 2014

A kind of ho-hum experience, wherein a lot of bullets are expended and a lot of structures exploded to minimal dramatic effect.

| Aug 14, 2014

It's all a bit like a classic-rock tribute concert, or playing with all your action figures at once, or maybe "Cannonball Run," with the strained buddy-buddy back-and-forth.

| Aug 14, 2014