Gina is introduced to us the only way a woman in a testosterone-dripping franchise like this can be: Sexy AND crazy, yelling like the dickens in a hot little dress. Leading the next stage of the mission will be Gina (Fox), his ex (or maybe current?) girlfriend. We can’t give it away, but let’s just say it brings Statham’s Christmas to the forefront for much of the film.īut he makes an early error that sidelines him for a bit. The body count mounts, and then something happens that will change the trajectory of the film. Not surprisingly, the Expendables run into resistance. The other thing you should know is that Barney is determined to unmask a shadowy figure codenamed Ocelot who’s maybe pulling all the strings. CIA handler Marsh (Garcia) needs the Expendables to stop him. This means a trip to Libya, to “Gadhafi’s old chemical plant,” where aforementioned arms dealer Rahmat (Uwais) is securing detonators for a nuclear weapon. ![]() The thugs dispatched and the ring collected, it’s time to get back to work. Got all that? In a prelude scene in New Orleans, we reconnect with Barney, who now has salt-and-pepper hair, and a bad back - so bad, he enlists Christmas to help him recover his prized skeleton ring at a biker bar, which he’s lost in a thumb-wrestling contest. Other additions: Jacob Scipio is the son of Antonio Banderas’ character from the last film, and Levy Tran is a new female teammate, adept with a whip chain. Also providing new blood is Andy Garcia as a prickly CIA handler, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson as an ex-Marine and new team member, and two martial arts stars: Iko Uwais as ruthless arms dealer Rahmat, and Tony Jaa as quiet warrior Decha. This may be the only good thing.) Also back are Dolph Lundgren’s Gunner and Randy Couture’s Toll Road.Īnd now, perhaps in a nod to the previously unrecognized fact that half the human race is female, we have Megan Fox as mercenary leader Gina. Leading the pack, as ever, is Stallone’s Barney Ross and his expert knife-wielding best bud, Lee Christmas - Jason Statham, reveling in his Cockney charm and smiling more than usual. The flow of testosterone is, well, head-spinning. ![]() The body count is head-spinningly high (this film, directed by Scott Waugh, returns to an R rating after a switch to PG-13 for the last installment). These guys are the indestructible mercenaries who swoop in – literally, on Barney’s turboprop plane – to do dirty work in miserable places. True, there’s no explanatory intro, but if you’ve seen earlier “Expendables” films, you’ll know there’s not much to know. This is, obviously, the fourth “Expendables” film, but our considered scientific opinion is that you needn’t see the first three to catch up. Are we supposed to enunciate the mid-word numeral, or is it merely visual? Is this what stands for a smart new spin on a tired franchise? Will we soon have “My Big F4t Greek Wedding”? Are these questions supposed to distract us from how stunningly mediocre the film is? Gravity is setting in throughout “Expend4bles,” a movie whose most enticing mystery is not the secret identity of its shadowy villain, but how you pronounce the film’s title. “Gravity is setting in,” says Barney, Sylvester Stallone’s aging character in “Expend4bles,” when someone asks how he’s doing. It’s a throwaway line, but maybe a bit too meaningful, under the circumstances. Business & Finance Click to expand menu.LeonSmallwood.exe (As a ".exe" mode of Leon).Spiffy.exe (As a ".exe" mode of Spiffy).BenTennyson.exe (As a ".exe" mode of Ben).Barneychu.exe (As a ".exe" mode of Barneychu).Popuko.exe (As a ".exe" mode of Popuko).AndrewSilverman.exe (As a ".exe" mode of Andrew).JoeyGriffin.exe (As a ".exe" mode of Joey).Shadow Barney (As a shadow mode of Barney).Barney.exe (As a ".exe" mode of Barney).Devil Barney (As a devil mode of Barney).Evil Barney (As an evil mode of Barney).Microsoft PowerPoint 2019 (For logos and more).Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 (For logos and more).Error Message Generator (For Windows error messages).Audacity (For audio recording and editing).Ivona/LumenVox/TextAloud (For TTS voices).Adobe Photoshop CS5 (Sprites, backgrounds, and more).Paint.NET (Sprites, backgrounds, and more).MS Paint (Sprites, backgrounds, and more).Here is a list of programs/software that were used to make the series. In 2023, Joey Griffin updated the short films as episodes of the series. The first 25 episodes of the series started off as short films that were made from January 2018 to September 2020.
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