The Expendables 3

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Movie
German title The Expendables 3
Original title The Expendables 3
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2014
length Theatrical Version:
127 minutes
Director’s Cut:
132 minutes
Age rating FSK 16 (Theatrical Version)
FSK 18 (Director's Cut)
JMK 16
Rod
Director Patrick Hughes
script Sylvester Stallone ,
Katrin Benedikt ,
Creighton Rothenberger
production Avi Lerner ,
Danny Lerner ,
Kevin King Templeton ,
John Thompson ,
Les Weldon
music Brian Tyler
camera Peter Menzies junior
cut Sean Albertson ,
Paul Harb
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
The Expendables 2

The Expendables 3 (alternative title: The Expendables 3: A Man's Job ) is an American ensemble - action film from the year 2014 by Patrick Hughes . The script was written by Creighton Rothenberger , Katrin Benedikt and Sylvester Stallone . The film is a sequel to The Expendables and The Expendables 2 . In addition to the regular team, the cast was supplemented by Wesley Snipes , Antonio Banderas , Mel Gibson and Harrison Ford .

action

Barney Ross and his team rescue the incarcerated former Expendable Doc from a prisoner van. The enlarged troop is supposed to prevent a weapons deal. It turns out that the arms supplier is Expendables co-founder Conrad Stonebanks, who was believed to be dead. Stonebanks shoots Caesar and escapes.

While Hale Caesar is in a coma, Barney is instructed by his new CIA contact Max Drummer after the failed assignment. According to this, Stonebanks should not be eliminated, but rather taken alive so that he can be charged as a war criminal in The Hague. This contradicts Barney's original wish, who would rather kill his former teammate, yet he bows to the orders of the CIA. Barney decides to retire the old troop and hire new expendables. With the help of Bonaparte, he recruits four young people to take Stonebanks prisoner. At a gun handover in a museum in Bucharest, they can surprise Stonebanks' guards and stun and arrest the arms dealer. The transport by delivery truck is intercepted by Stonebanks' people by helicopter, who were able to locate Stonebanks via a GPS transmitter. The four newcomers are captured by Stonebanks' men, and Barney falls into a river. He is tracked down by Stonebanks' people, but can kill anyone.

Barney wants to complete the job and flies home to recharge equipment. There, Galgo first persuades Barney that he can accompany him. Shortly before the plane takes off, Christmas and the rest of the previous expendables are added to complete the rescue team. Without their knowledge they are also followed by drummers, trench and yin yang. Stonebanks' hiding place is in an old town in an Eastern European republic that is guarded by the local army. The Expendables find the four prisoners in a hotel ruin studded with C4 . The army attacks the hotel with infantry and tanks, and the expendables fend off the attack with great difficulty. In a fist fight, Barney defeats Stonebanks and shoots him in the end. The Expendables flee over the roof in the Trench and Drummer's helicopter just before the hotel is blown up.

Different versions

The Expendables 3 was released in a cut version for worldwide theatrical release. This gave the film the financially lucrative PG-13 rating in the USA and the FSK-16 rating in Germany. In addition to the “uncut theatrical version”, an Extended Director's Cut was published for home cinema exploitation, which has a running time of five minutes longer and which was approved by the FSK 18 in Germany. This cut version represents the really original version of the film. Stallone later admitted that getting The Expendables 3 cut to the cinema in order to be able to reach a larger target audience was a big mistake.

production

Sylvester Stallone initially offered Mel Gibson to direct the third part. After some discussion, however, it was agreed on a villain role for Gibson, which was then directed by Patrick Hughes .

Bruce Willis , who was represented in both previous films, could not agree on a collaboration with Stallone for the third part. Instead, a new, similar character was created, portrayed by Harrison Ford.

Wesley Snipes was supposed to appear in the first The Expendables film, but a legal matter at the time made this impossible for Snipes.

Trivia

  • After the Expendables have freed "Doc" (Wesley Snipes) from the prison train, he is asked what he was staying for. Doc replies that he was in prison for tax evasion . In fact, Wesley Snipes was charged with tax evasion in 2010 and sentenced to prison.
  • Stonebanks' video mail, in which he mocked the captured team members as "Tick, Trick, Track and Daisy", takes up a scene from Lethal Weapon 4 in which Mel Gibson as Martin Riggs describes the four captured Chinese gang bosses as "Tick, Trick, Track and Fuck ”.

synchronization

After Stallone and Schwarzenegger received different German dubbing voices in their last film Escape Plan together , both were voiced by Thomas Danneberg again in The Expendables 3 .

role actor Voice actor
Barney Ross Sylvester Stallone Thomas Danneberg
Lee Christmas Jason Statham Thomas Nero Wolff
Bonaparte Kelsey Grammer Klaus-Dieter Klebsch
Conrad Stonebanks Mel Gibson Elmar Wepper
Doctor Death Wesley Snipes Torsten Michaelis
Galgo Antonio Banderas Bernd Vollbrecht
Goran Vata Robert Davi Jan Spitzer
Gunnar Jensen Dolph Lundgren Oliver Stritzel
Hale Caesar Terry Crews Tobias Kluckert
John Smilee Kellan Lutz Stefan Günther
Luna Ronda Rousey Anja Stadlober
Mars Victor Ortiz Martin Kautz
Max drummer Harrison Ford Wolfgang Pampel
Thorn Glen Powell Marius Clarén
Great road Randy Couture Sascha Rotermund
Trench Mauser Arnold Schwarzenegger Thomas Danneberg
Yin yang Jet Li Simon hunter

Reviews

While the two predecessors were rated relatively positively as representatives of the genre, The Expendables 3 received mostly moderate to negative reviews. The film received an average rating of 6.1 at the IMDb (as of July 2020). With Rotten Tomatoes it was only enough to score 32% and he has a Metascore of 35 out of 100 with Metacritic .

The Hollywood Reporter criticized, for example, that the movie's biggest mistake was to "ignore the actual leading actors" and instead focus on new young actors, "none of whom match the experience or charisma" of the old stars.

The film service said that the film would be enjoyed in “stilted, stilted one-liners”. The “tiring action fireworks” had “lost a large part of the originality and the genre gimmicks of the previous films”.

Web links

Commons : The Expendables 3  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for The Expendables 3 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2014 (PDF; theatrical version).
  2. ↑ Release certificate for The Expendables 3 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, October 2014 (PDF; Director's Cut).
  3. ↑ Age rating for The Expendables 3 . Youth Media Commission .
  4. ↑ Bluray-Disc.de. BluRay-Disc.de, December 22, 2014, accessed December 25, 2014 .
  5. ^ Crave Online. Craveonline.com, November 23, 2014, accessed December 26, 2014 .
  6. ↑ The Hollywood Reporter : Harrison Ford In, Bruce Willis Out of "Expendables 3" - The action film is slated for release in August 2014 , Rebecca Ford, August 6, 2013
  7. ↑ The Expendables - Kurt Russell not there , Moviepilot . March 24, 2009. Retrieved January 2, 2015. 
  8. ^ The Expendables 3rd German Synchronous Card Index , accessed on December 26, 2014 .
  9. ↑ The Expendables 3 in the Internet Movie Database (English)Template: IMDb / Maintenance / "imported from" is missing
  10. ↑ The Expendables 3 at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
  11. ↑ The Expendables 3 at Metacritic (English)
  12. ↑ Justin Lowe: 'The Expendables 3': Film Review. Retrieved December 26, 2014 .
  13. ↑ The Expendables 3 short review. Film service , accessed December 28, 2014 .