I used to consider myself a fan of the Expendables franchise. Not so much after this embarrassment of a film. Grab a Critical Doggo plush! www.makeship.com/products/the...
I remember her from Transformers, obviously and never seen or heard of her again till this movie just what the hell has she been up to for the last twenty(?) years
@@jamescarr1265 I mean she's gotten plastic surgery numerous times. When she first started out in the industry she was like just a slightly above average 6.5 to 7 (5 being avg on this scale) then she got surgery the first time around and that surgeon deserves a prize for how well he did. So she shot up to like a 9. Sadly she didn't stop there and that's when she got more, which made her look fake and plastic and it dropped her down. She shouldn't have had any work done past what you said, the Transformer era. I'm betting she's had implants too. Feels bad.
My dad took my brother and me to see this movie over the weekend. We knew within the first ten minutes that it was going to be bad, but we decided to sit through it anyway. I wish we hadn't.
I felt the same in 2017, when I went to the movies to see the very first movie of Rey Skywalker. The final hit on the coffin nail was the scene inside the Millenium Falcon in which Rey throws a tantrum just to say "NOT OF YOUR BUSINESS!" when Finn innocently asks if she had any boyfriend.
@@viniciusvalois2634 That sucks. Kudos to you for sitting through that pile of yeast. I got it from my library and even then I couldn't bring myself to finish it.
The only reason the expendables worked is because the cast was made up of people that normally were the "main cast" all by themselves, so seeing them all together in one movie was amazing, regardless of what the movie was. It could have been a single long shot of a dinner party and it still would have been entertaining. If your sidelining them in favor of "new blood" you've completely missed why the franchise was popular in the first place.
Expendables missed a huge opportunity to close out a series in a blaze of glory. You’ve got the most iconic crew of decades past action stars for peak built-in attachment from their audience. How epic would it have been to raise the stakes by roping everyone in on one last mission that is deeply personal to the characters somehow, and gets them all together for one last hoorah - not because they are being ordered to or paid, but because they need to for each other. Then one by one you have them die for each other as we get closer to the completion of the most important mission that is able to turn mercenaries who may have questioned their choices and how they lived their lives, into true heroes who know exactly why they risk everything. Each having the opportunity to reflect before their send off. Then conclude with Stallone, the last “expendable,” ultimately succeeding in an epic “nothing to lose” final moment where he dies but saves the day. To get to see these titans of action film history to come back and then each get their moment in sacrifice of something greater would just be awesome. And it was honestly the first thing I imagined when I saw the series, what a perfect way to bring weight to “passing the torch” to the next generation of action stars. AND they literally had the name “Expendables,” which would have been even more fitting, *Expend them* at the completion of the trilogy damnit. And if this HAD been what happened in Expendables 3, who WOULDN’T have gone to see it? Seriously? But no, we got the same “risk nothing,” shallow crap wet fart movie one would expect to see from a company like Disney. Instead of seeing something epic with a clear goal & conclusion - just like the great action films of the 80s and 90s - we got the equivalent of a shitty TV show that had no idea what to do after the first season, and so they just kept stretching it for as long as they could with cheap threads, washed out copies of other story lines, and nothing remotely novel until it just withers away into nothing and is totally forgotten. What an insult to what these characters represent for a generation.
I started reading this comment with the intention of finishing it, as with most comments, until I clicked read more and realized it was an entire dissertation 😂
Someone whose not too lazy to read when someone is 100% on the mark. Heck that is what 3 should've been, it got really boring and forced+rushed when the "replacement crew" came in. 1-2 I still enjoy but I don't ever want to see 3-4 ever again. Also "Expendables" should've definitely meant "expendable." The amount of characters who are basically not allowed to die was an incredibly stupid choice. When anyone can just be fine 5 minutes later or skip a film and be fine how is anyone supposed to keep invested?
I recently watched Fast-X. Same premise, big dumb ludicrous action sequences, corny dialogue. However the cast being heavily invested and having a blast with it was the difference maker that had you rolling along with the insanity of it
I think the franchise peaked at 2, it has everything, cheese, cameo, shoot outs, a simple story with a simple villain, played by the amazing JCVD, and the airport shoot out with chuck, arnold and willis, can't get better than that
Expendables 3 handing it off for "the new generation" was without a doubt the death of it. A bunch of nobodies taking over for the icons was destined to fail. The whole point of The Expendables was watching a group of aged mercs at the end of their run but they just won't put the horse down.
it could have worked but it was poorly done. Barley any good action with the violence toned down, most the young ones were either killed or just crap and mel gibson was severely under used.
It's pretty hilarious that (1) they're pretending Megan Fox was an action star and (2) they're pretending Megan Fox was ever more than a flavor of the month 10 or 15 years ago.
Megan Fox actually lost her career cause she told Harvey Weinstein to fuck off and didn‘t accept some hollywood bullshit. Not a big fan either, but she‘s one of the few people with a honest character in Hollywood.
It was terrible. So horribly terrible. The plot looks like they missed all kinds of exposition. I was ten times as disappointed when I saw COVID Wranglers in the credits
You know it's been a while since the Drinker said his epic "What the F$ck!" line. Maybe he's saving that for something that's really bad. Hopefully for the next review, because those were hilarious to hear.
I get sad seeing actors I've loved over the years appearing in such modern garbage like Morgan Freeman, John Cusack, Denzel Washington, and Charlize Theron.
The thing i loved about the first movie is how both the bad guys and good guys had stacked casts. They had many 1 on 1 fights, Sly vs Stone Cold, Jet Li vs Lundgren, Adkins vs Statham. After a while they just didnt do much to impress or build up the movie.
The thing that annoyed me was that the movie has both Tony Jaa and Mike Mohler (an amazing and completely unknown martial artist from Germany) but both went almost completely unused. At least Iko Uwais, from The Raid films, was put to decent use here, but the fact that he and Tony Jaa were in the same location, and on opposite sides of the conflict, and didn't feature a fight between the two is just criminal
For me, it's that there is always so much distracting CGI and bad green screens that took away from some of the effectiveness of replicating action from "a bygone era". It's more taking the action stars of old and putting them into the hurdles of the 00s effects.
Yeah but you know what a waste of money it would be to have old these expensive old fucks sit around while we filmed competent action scene with competent actors/stunmen ~The Studio
One of the greatest moments of my life was the moment in the first movie when Arnold, Sly, and Willis shared the same screen. The theater erupted in cheers, I grew a third testicle, and my girlfriend left the auditorium pregnant.
I always laughed at that scene. How in the hell are they all the same height? Stallone is shorter than my brother and he is 5' 7". Arnold is about 6' now.
I went to see this with my dad, nothing but silence between us. We didn’t even talk about it leaving the theatre because I just felt like he knew it was trash
Megan Fox being an Expendable makes me think the person who pitched the idea has no idea what makes them the Expendables. It's supposed to be a throwback series that celebrates the action heroes of an older generation. In other words, the opposite of Megan Fox
Since they picked a young woman like Megan Fox, why not Scarlet Johansson who is known to do her own stunts? She was in Black Widow, Lucy, Ghost In The Shell, and most of her action movie career as an Avenger! Cmon man!!!! Even Angeline Jolie would have made way more sense than Megan Fox! Even Maggie Q who is so underrated man! She was Nikita! Megan Fox only success was Jennifer's Body. The issue with her is the fact that she is not trying to act good at all. 50 Cent had better days as Kanon from Power, but this has got to be his worse performance that will even make J Rule his rapper enemy laugh!
@@TimoRutanen Funny enough, after the second Expendables movie Stallone tried to put together a female led Expendables spinoff that would've included Hamilton, Weaver, and Yeoh as well as Milla Jovovich and Kate Beckinsale. But the movie never materialized.
It probably would be more entertaining seeing them all in a old folks home that gets targeted by the government. *Edit* everyone is telling me that's the plot of RED, why wasn't I notified?!
Biggest disappointment is that throughout production there were sooo many amazing names attached like Pierce Brosnan, Clint Eastwood, Jack Nicholson, Hulk Hogan, etc. It could have been legendary. What a missed opportunity.
The next Expendables sequel should take place in a nursing home, and have the stars rise up against a dictator-like head nurse in order to get their milk of magnesia. The potential product placement dollars could pay for the entire production (adult diaper/stool softeners/meal replacement drinks/term life insurance/hard candy/etc.).
The problem is her looks can only carry her so far, and they're clearly fading. I don't know what she did to her face but she's starting to resemble Madona and not in a good way.
This happens to pretty much every franchise that returns after a ten year absence. The thrill, the spark, it fades because the creators either lose touch with the original essence or never understood it in the first place.
"because the creators either lose touch with the original essence or never understood it in the first place.' You are assuming that there are creators involved in the process. Long breaks between sequels usually means it's purely a money decision. The studio simply dust off an established brand, throw a formula script at it and some past-their-prime actors desperate for a job and profit. Everyone involved knows it's going to suck but it keeps everyone's bills paid.
They had talks about having The Rock Hulk Hogan or a returning Jean Claude Van Damme playing and identical twin, being the main villain of the story that would had been something a lot better than what we got.
I can't believe they got Iko Uwais from The Raid and still managed to have lackluster fights. You'd have to be trying to fail when you got him and still mess up.
THAT was the biggest dissapointment from the movie. I was waiting for that end fight-scene where Iko comes and kicks some ass. But then he's beatne within a minute and dies. What a waste of talent. They could have done Iko vs Tony for 10 minutes, and it would have made the film 10x better.
evalonia- Yeah, but that disappointment is in EVERY expendable' movie. In the second one, they had Jean-Claude Van Damme AND Jet Li & didn't even have them meet each other, much less fight
And she's the one woman in the main cast and is made the team leader? Well, OK, we can give some leeway and assume she is still more believable there than as a hardcore action character, so they wanted some rounded chest with low T in the movie and needed a spot.
Her face looks like a watermelon after pouring 6.3 gallons of candle wax over it. It mean, what the hell is the matter with these goofy Hollyweird jezebells??
99 times out of 100 you're right, but I'd recommend Jennifer's Body and Till Death, where there's a great script and premise, and Megan Fox is great in both films.
@@etsequentia6765I have seen the trailer of The Expendables 4. When I saw Megan fighting and shooting a bad guy in the boat. She hasn't changed since the 2000s. She still has a mean girl personality.
I finally got around to seeing this yesterday & I just have no words. The first 3 Expendables movies at least have the benefit of being relatively forgettable. 4, on the other hand, will be remembered for a long time, and that's NOT a good thing. Expendables 4 will be remembered when the Razzies are nominating the worst everything of the year. (Worst movie, actors, sceenplay) The thing that I REALLY just couldn't get over, especially in today's day and age, is how obvious and obtrusive the "Green Screen" was. It's like they didn't even try to hide it.
Mickey Rourke did more acting in 5 minutes in the first Expendables movie than any of the actors, in all 4 movies, have done. His scene where he's talking about the lady jumping off the bridge and he just walks away... you can feel that scene, you can see him seeing it over and over again.
Fox is a classic - and a frequently all too common example - of someone in the media industry being able to grift a lucrative living at something they are quite clearly absolutely terrible at.
Ah, but remember how smoking hot she was in the Transformer movies? She should have just stopped right then because "smoking hot" was all she had going for her - certainly can't act.
Drinker really hit me right in the nostalgia with those old 80's and 90's action movies. Terminator and Predator are both my favorites', ever since my childhood. I remember watching them but not their names so much, anyone have an recommendations? I'm tired of modern movies lol
The Expendables was a really nice bonding experience for me and my father. He was a big fan of simple, macho action films, starring various actors such as Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Jason Statham. So, a film series like The Expendables; a viable excuse to just kick back, relax, and watch a bunch of aging, but still competent action heroes beat up hoards of nameless goons; seemed like a great excuse to get out of the house, go to the movies, and bond over dinner and a conversation about these old movies we used to like, and all the cute little in-jokes and references they made. My Dad passed away last August. I will not be going to see The Expendables 4.
sympathies on your loss, but at least you know you watched the better movies of the expendables with your dad. And i am sure he would not like Expend-4-bles anyway, so we both know he is in a better place not having watched this garbage.
Condolences, I lost my Dad a little over 6 years ago, and Mum coming up in Nov to 12 years, and I still miss both of them, but life goes on, and you'll meet your Dad again, as I'll meet my parents again, it's just a matter of time now. As for E4, I won't be seeing it either.
The worst thing about the 3rd film was the watered down violence to get that "sweet" 12A\PG-13 rating thinking they would get a larger audience, it killed the franchise for me and I think for others too. Part of its appeal was the throwback to the over the top violence in 80's and early 90's action flicks.
„Fun“ fact: Antonio Banderas was originally slated to reprise his role as Galgo from the previous movie but when he turned out to be unavailable, the character was rewritten into that of Galan.
Expendables 1 & 2 had it all from a great script, directors who knew what they were doing and an all-star cast of action legends coming together to show the youngsters how to really do an action film and now it has been reduced to a fart in the wind mixed in with 70 year old stale booze and cheap ass cigars.
The way you described it, I figured you would have reached for the only thing stronger than a shelf of Jack Daniels.... A single bottle of Toilet Duck.
Fun fact: Megan Fox was pretty stressed out and low energetic during the shooting of this film because they wouldn't let her drink her favourite human blood on set. Allegedly.
I'm personally a fan of Dolph Lundgren, and I'm American. He's really popular in parts of Europe and I can see him as quite a draw there. The clips I've seen of him in Expies 4 look like he's having a blast. Also, Terry Crews was threatened by one of the producers that if Crews didn't retract his accusation that he'd been assaulted by a talent agent, then the producer would ruin Crews's career. And 50 Cent mocked Crews for his accusation. So, maybe the plot should've been breaking into a prison to free a famous Hollywood executive who'd been convicted of rape -- because that seems to be the producers view on things.
I can confirm that Dolph was great in my youth (30 years ago in Germany). I also remember Michael Dudikoff. Btw David Hasselhoff was big in Germany too so what do we know😂
Dolph Lundgren was once one of the spank bags of my imaginariom (hope others recon me joke from Father Ted and the guy who did the soundtrack, he is great sorry I turned this talent into a masty joke) Yeah but Dolph Lundgren is still a hottie.
They could have brought in Micheal Beihn, Kurt Russel, brought back Wesley snipes, car weathers, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hamilton, and would have been golden to get Jackie Chan on board. That would have been an amazing star studded cast of absolute badass action stars from the 80s going into the 90s. If they had to include the female aspect Linda Hamilton and Sigourney Weaver would have been it. They’ve both played well written strong Demaline characters that dominate how female characters are written today. Adding Tony Ja and Iko Uwais was great but the rest was subpar
Just saw this last night with my brother. We were the only ones in the theater and thank God for that. There's no way we could have gotten away with laughing and shit talking as much as we did otherwise. This felt like an independent straight to DVD action flick from 2003. It's right up there with Anaconda and Behind Enemy Lines 6.
The second film was definitely the best because of JCVD. As we all know from one of the most iconic villians in any media format, The Joker - particularly Batman '89 and The Dark Knight - the villains themselves can make or break a film and JCVD was the highlight of the second film. I'm not quite sure of any film in which a supporting character ruined the experience, so let's see of Megan Fox can make that happen here.
AGREED. The second film had everything I wanted to see from those films. A big finale where all of the good guys team up and fight the enemy base. It had Statham, Sly, Willis, Arnie and Chuck effing Norris all being baddasses. 3 is ok as well, and I did like Banderas and Snipes against roided out Mel Gibson, whose infamous rants have turned him into the perfect hateable screen presence, and because Gibson has always been gifted, he was above and beyond as the baddie. But 2 is where it's at for me.
What a waste of Iko Uwais, Hollywood had a Jet Li/Jackie Chan successor handed to them on a silver platter and they just keep putting him in bad movies, his agent isn’t doing him any favors. Just make The Raid 3
I feel so lucky to have been born in a generation where we had these guys at their prime. JCVD, Chuck Norris, Stallone, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Schwarzenegger, even Seagal ( Above the Law, Under Siege, Marked for Death awesome). Even way before my time, was Bruce Lee. Going to see their films was an event! There really aren't any replacements for these guys and its sad. Tom Cruise is the only true movie star left that has films I really want to see. My husband and I have all the great action flicks on physical media like VHS and DVD and watch them a ton. I'm here for the wet fart commentary! 😎
Seagal was always a jerk but his early films were great. I think Keanu Reeves in John Wick did a lot for the action genre, particularly with great antagonists like Donnie Yen and Mark Dacascos. Also, Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson were older actors from Westerns who then transitioned to the gun-toting city vigilante -- actors shift genres and I think we'll see all of this again. We've got Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Ryan Gosling, Sebastian Stan, and others who can keep the action genre going.
Scott Adkins is the best modern-day action star, but unfortunately, most of his films are straight-to-video (or streaming in this case). Still, he has some fantastic gems like Avengement, Accident Man, and The Debt Collector.
Incredible how between Mortal 1 Kombat and Expen4bles both coming out I see people comparing Megan Fox's and Rhonda's (voice for M1K)acting, both being bad for stablished franchises, but with Megan always being the worst. Truly celebrities of all time
The issue with this with voice acting for a game I think is the voice actor themselves have to have some sort of passion for the work or a good amount of respect for it at least. Look at Mark Hamil as Joker or Gary Oldman as Reznov. Megan just doesn't fit that nitara role. I could probably see her as Cassy maybe, but that's about it. Rhonda's a fighter but not an actor. Then again I blame whoever recorded it and decided it was good.
The whole premise of the original three movies was the aging action stars both major ones like Sly, Arnold, and Chuck, and minor ones like Dolf Lungren or even Antonio. You can't just drop in a bunch of non-aging, non-action, non-"stars" It wouldn't have worked as an Expendables no matter how good the writing or directing was.
I never even knew this movie existed until now. Seeing that Megan Fox is involved it's a hard pass. It's a shame, I freaking love what Tony Jaa is capable of on screen.
The Expendables and the movie Red we're meant to be nothing but gun firing action comedy. like making spaghetti, one would think such a recipe would be impossible to screw up, but somehow do .
Terry Crews said in an interview that Stallone struggled to get studio backing for Expendables 1 and that it could've ended up as a direct-to-DVD release as a result Sounds like Expendables 4 is what they'd feared Expendables 1 would be
Thanks for saving me the time. Your description of 4 could apply equally to 3. I figured this was DOA when they tried to sell me Meghan Fox as a tactical operator. The appeal of the first one was the fact that all those guys could pull off "over the hill operators struggling with what to do with their used up lives".
The moment Statham started riding the dirt bike along the corridors of the ship and shooting machine guns, I realized, that this franchise was totally fucked. And I laughed very hard!
The Expendables 2 was the first R rated movie that I saw in theaters, because I had to wait until I finally moved out of my parents house in order to do so, but hey, it was a fun experience
Damn, sounds like a tough childhood. I’m lucky, promised my Mum when I was ten I wouldn’t become a pimp or gangster and she let me get San Andreas for Christmas 2004. Swings and roundabouts though. I’m sure your parents were cool in other ways.
I've never been so happy to forget a movie more than this one. A real shame because Expendables 1 and especially 2 are frigging peak enjoyable action movies that bring the OG's back in a satisfying way. It sucks we could never relive that spark again thanks to 3 and 4 being so shit.
I started seeing the decline on part 3, it was no longer about the 80s and 90s action stars when they started adding all of these 'new' names that took away from the brand. It was no longer 80s/90s action nostalgia and it started to become your standard B movie bs when they added Rousey, Kellan Lutz, Megan Fox and similar mess.
@@morganseppy5180 I agree, and I would def. give her a pass. The point was that the franchise was starting to move away from 80s/90s action icons and add too many names that people really wouldn't pay to see collaborating. The first 2 had base anchors Stallone, Arnie, Willis, Van Damme, Jet Li, Norris that carried the movies, Statham gets a pass because he has carried the action mantle since the early 2000s and has a large fan base. I will give 3 a nod because they put my boy Snipes in there lol
@@morganseppy5180 Not really... she is an average fighter for a girl; any one of the old man cast would kick her ass... also her "acting" was so laughably bad that it pulls you out of the film. "Expendables 3" was not very good, but Rousey makes it unwatchable.
@@thee_morpheus yep, def agree. They carved out a niche, one that I'd argue ppl didn't know they wanted,. And then said, Naaaah lets fall back on filling the movie with young nobodies.
So, the Expendables franchise has reached Steven Seagal status of film entertainment. So you're telling me there is a chance Seagal can be in part 5. Awesome.
Megan having no chemistry with the expendables team, 50 cent's horrible dialogues and recruitment plot, Jason statham getting too old, Iko Uwais being nerfed badly, the movie having no real plot or good dialogues either, man this movie almost crushed all my expectations as bad as the fast 9 movie was. It's like having has-been uncles playing football together one more time before their death
So basically the "4th" movie became the expendaBULLS. Perhaps Seagal could have been bribed with a few Twinkies and a Golden Corral All You Can Eat coupon to waddle in and show those bad guys that shooting actually DOES require you to aim.
I started to actually laugh at how bad the CGI was in the opening scene, I leaned over to my mom and asked how this wasn’t a direct release to DVD/Streaming.
"Really, I can only think of two reasons why Megan was cast in this film, and to be fair, the director makes good use of them at lease. Hehehahahaaa.." 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Oh brother, you got me with that one..!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I would've rather seen Jet Li's character lead an Asian-centric Expendables spinoff with a cast of popular martial arts actors. Imagine the lineup that could have been built (for action-heavy starring roles or cameos) with so many candidates: Cecep Arif Rahman, Donnie Yen, Fify Azmi, Hairul Azreen, Iko Uwais, Ismi Melinda, JeeJa Yanin, Jet Li, Joe Taslim, Julie Estelle, Liang Yang, Mark Dacascos, Nicholas Tse, Tiger Hu Chen, Tony Jaa, Very Tri Yulisman, Yayan Ruhian, Yu Nan, Zhang Jin, Zhang Ziyi, Angela Mao, Anthony Wong, Chow Yun-fat, Hiroyuki Sanada, Ip Chun, Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh, Sammo Hung, Wu Yue, Chattapong Pantana-Angkul, Louis Fan Siu-wong, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Xiaofei Zhou (reprising her Expendables 2 character), and Xing Yu. This could've done far better with a proper script, budget, and especially a quality fight choreographer familiar with the styles of everyone involved. At the very least, I'll give credit to Expend4bles for managing to recruit Tony Jaa and Iko Uwais. But we've already seen them utilized with more effort and screen-time in other action films like Ong Bak, the Raid movies and Triple Threat. They aren't taken full advantage of in this movie, which kind of undermines the purpose of having them. Heck, I'd rather have seen Ronda Rousey's character lead that once rumored "Expendabelles" with a cast of popular female action stars instead of whatever this was. Honestly, The Expendables would've been better off not being a franchise imo.
Nearly everyone on your list is an unknown outside of their own countries. I do like the premise of a martial arts version of the Expendables. That would be pretty cool to see.
This is the comment right here!!! Would not only pay for my ticket but for my whole family to see that movie if it existed. For now I will go watch all those old Jet Li, Jackie Chan, Donnie Yen, ect, movies that are 20-30+ years older but 100x's better than this "Expendables" trash!
They already did that essentially. Triple Threat had Tiger Chen, Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Scott Adkins, Michael Jai White, and some others. Movie was marketed as the Asian expendables.
@@bradmiles1984 that wasn't a good movie overall though. Plus they were missing the big names like Jackie Chan, Donnie Yen, Jet Li, Samo Hung just to name a few. Those big names can bring better quality and better choreography.
@gabrielgarcia-zw8fu The choreography was good in triple threat but the acting/story was bad. Problem with what you want is some of those actors don't act anymore or do action roles. Jet Li stopped due to health issues.
As much as I love Stallone, I remember him actually saying that, he really needed to stfu right there. The Raid is such an amazing action film and having Iko as a villain in this movie was such a big time waste
@@nickbutcher760 That quote was from a Tweet he made about The Expendables 3. I watched it and found it rather... meh. As an Indonesian myself I feel a bit of dilemma about Iko Uwais. I heard that the Indonesian film industry is growing fast but I can't say anything about their films because I haven't watched them beyond The Raid and The Raid 2. I would say he should find some work in the Indonesian film industry instead of Hollywood, but then it might be a choice between lower pay and having his talents being wasted like this and Mile 22 (even then I think he overshadowed Mark Wahlberg in his own film).
@@IllusionistsBane"I would say he should find some work Indonesian film industry" That's hard these days dude as the film industry of Indonesia is now focusing more on generic romance and horror movies whereas action movies are so lacking from Indonesia to the point that action stars like Iko Uwais and Joe Taslim chose to work in Hollywood rather than Indonesia. Whether the Hollywood movies quality is good or bad, atleast they managed to find a lot of work there and get some incredible paycheck rather than stay in Indonesia and do nothing since the Indonesian film industry these days aren't interested in the action genre 🤷 In the Wendy Cagur podcast recently, Iko admit that he hasn't been called by anyone in the Indonesian film industry for him to lead another action movie which is just sad.
@@Bjork4s I thought that was him but was surprised when Drinker didn't highlight him in the review. Guess they really did waste his talent here if he didn't even get mentioned in the review. The Raid is still my all-time favorite action movie. The machete fight and the showdown with Mad Dog are legendary
@@noway3202There's really no point to highlight him when he was just wasted. Yeah he's a great action star but there's really nothing terribly interesting to talk about him in this movie
I caught that. Beginning of the video, you almost perfectly quoted Bart Simpson talking about the action stars. Bart Simpson, Season 7, Ep. 2- "The Schwarzeneggers. The Stallones. And to a lesser extent, The Van Dammes."
Imagine if this franchise had been done like a _Galaxy Quest_ or even _The Three Amigos_ action comedy. Classic 80's action stars thrown into a situation where they have to be heroic, but of course they're just actors. Out of their element. There could have been so many in-jokes and 80's/90's references with wonderful meta references to modern Hollywood. Just as bloody and crazy, but it could've been so much more fun.
Nah. It's age more than anything and him coming to terms that he can't keep being in stuff like this forever, so pass the keys to someone else, which clearly isn't working since Statham can only do so much on his own.
