Film Review - Expendables 4 (2023)

Expendables 4 is the fourth in the series and again stars Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham as Barney Ross and Lee Christmas and they go to Libya to stop a rogue terrorist (Tony Jaa) from stealing Nuclear weapon materials but when the mission goes wrong the CIA head (Andy Garcia) calls off Christmas from the group and they then go to a tanker ship where the Nuclear materials are located and once again the Expendables must do what they do best.

Expendables 4 is a terrible film and in a year that gave us John Wick Chapter 4 and Equalizer 3 this really isn’t good enough, firstly it feels like Stallone and Statham are just going through the motions here and I like Statham but I am really wanting him to make better quality movies because this and Operation Fortune from earlier this year are not doing him any favours and as for Stallone this is just another example of him ruining his legacy with lazy sequels between this and 2019’s Rambo Last Blood which was also terrible but at least Michael B Jordan is safely looking after the Creed series so there’s that at least.

As for the action and storytelling well as Bob from Reboot would say it is bad, it is very bad and firstly the storytelling is not that interesting just another “find a bomb and disarm it” and I was waiting for it to go one step further like the great action films do and it doesn’t we spend half a film on a damn boat and it isn’t interesting to watch as a location nor do we get any fun action moments and the action here is terrible where it be from the bad effects, the bad editing or the 2 moves and their dead fight scenes and again John Wick 4 and Equalizer 3 had great action and great stories and characters you were invested in and this movie has none of that.

And I’m going to leave it there as I aren’t wasting anymore time on this turkey except to eat it and give it a 1 out of 5.