The Expendables 3

So by this point we've worked out exactly what to expect from these films. The third film doesn't quite have the same stellar name cast that hit the first film so spectacularly because by this point half the team are dead.

With Schwarzenegger taking on his normal cameo roles where he sort of just features in a few scenes and the same being said for Harrison Ford there was a need to take on a few other new members to make the team the same size that they were originally. Antonio Banderas spent at least half of the film trying to get Barney (Stallone) to accept his non-stop talking character who can free run and shoot a lot as part of his team and he had his uses but if it were my team I would not be taking on someone who talked that much! We've seen already from that terrible film X-men Origins: Wolverine that perfect soldiers are ones who don't talk all the time.

Wesley Snipes was also a new addition to the team with him taking a break from starring in the 'Blade films'. The reprise of only wearing black was nice to see. Take the Batman approach and just stick to one colour. Glen Powell is making his second feature on the blog within the space of a week and that has to say a lot because I haven't actually seen many of his films. A different role to his character in 'Hidden Figures' and good to see him doing something a little different. He can pull off action films but equally can pull of being in most other films.

Unfortunately, what this film highlights is the serious lack of ability to act by Stallone. There is more than one scene which seriously focuses on him in a close up and he just has no facial expressions. Action films are definitely his thing but that doesn't mean that he can act. In order to stop these rants I am going to start selectively not watching films which star him in because I can't bear watching more films in which he just does the exact same thing. He has two ways of delivering a line- aggressively or slightly less aggressively and it is really puzzling to try and understand why he has been in so many films when his acting is fairly one dimensional.

You know what you get with these films. Some great action scenes, lots of shooting and some brilliant music. When you are having a classic action movie night these films have to make the list because they are exactly what the genre should be.