The Expendables 1-4: Steelbook Collection - 4K Blu-ray Review

[Michael Scott]

The Expendables 1-4: Steelbook Collection



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WARNING: THE SCORES ABOVE ARE A COMBINED SCORE FROM ALL 4 FILMS, THE INDIVIDUAL SCORES ARE CONTAINED BELOW IN THE INDIVIDUAL SECTIONS OF THE REVIEW

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Movie
The Expendables:
Back in 2010 the action marketplace was slowing down. The aging action stars of the 80s and 90s had found that they couldn’t run around shirtless punching people in the face anymore, and the market itself had failed to really pass the torch to a new generation. Jason Statham was kicking butt, and the Rock was SUPPOSED to take over the reigns, but his brand of action just wasn’t jiving with the old school fans (ironic being that the Rock is THE biggest action star these days). Super Hero flicks were on the rise, and the Paul Greengrass films with shaky cam and quick cuts were dominating the field. This left old school action fans REALLY frustrated and looking for an alternative. That alternative came from the mind of Sylvester Stallone, who wanted to re live some of the glory days of the past by creating an ensemble cast of old action stars for one big nostalgic blast.

The idea was sound. The market was BEGGING for classic action flicks and the stars of yesteryear were no longer in massive demand. Arnie was off of his governorship, and Stallone was wrapping up his Rambo franchise with the 4th movie with not much on the horizon. Why not get together a crew of the greats for a big nostalgia trip? And it worked, kind of. Stallone wasn’t really able to get ALL the big names together, and Willis and Arnie both only agreed to a cameo because they had to share the spotlight. So he had to supplement with WWE and MMA stars on top of the big names to get a full crew.

Story line is 1980s simple. Barney Ross (Stallone) is an aging merc who belongs to a super elite crew known as “The Expendables”. Said crew are the coolest guys on campus, riding tricked out Harleys, getting tattoos just cuz, and take jobs from their mentor Tool (Mickey Rourke) to pay the bills. The motley crew decide to take on a mission in South America from the mysterious CIA Spook “Mr. Church” (Bruce Willis). Seems like a cake walk. Take out a South American general who is ruling the tiny country with an iron hand and get back before dinner time. Well, turns out that walk in the park was a trip to hell and back (at least according to Tool). After a disastrous incursion into the little country of Vilena they find out that the general (David Zayas) is not the real enemy. The real enemy is his Black Ops handler Munroe (Eric Roberts) who is using the country to funnel drugs through and use it to fund their black ops missions.

As you can guess, general mayhem ensues. Their first mission is a failure, and now Barney Ross has to defy the logic of his command and go back to help the people free themselves from the General and Munroe. Of course that means an entire army stands in their way and the mercs have to punch, kick, shoot and basically blow the ever living snot out of everyone who stands in their way. Simple, right? There’s not new or generally groundbreaking in The Expendables. It’s a fairly generic action movie using some nostalgic actors to emulate the golden age of Hollywood action films. While it’s not GREAT, the movie is still a strong effort by Stallone, and one of the more fun films of that era. Rewatching the film for the first time since it came out on 4K UHD back in 2017 I have to admit that it was better than I remembered. Solid action, Stallone was still in great shape (although the man can NOT run to save his life), and the only real negative was a lack of MORE old school action heroes and the use of quick cuts (that really irked me as Stallone sold us on OLD school filming techniques, then used modern day quick cuts). Really, it’s a fun movie, though nothing THAT special.

The Expendables 2:
To me the 2nd film is easily the peak of the entire series. The first film didn’t exactly strike that vein that Stallone was aiming for, but it was at least moderately successful in its mission. Big tough guys doing tough guy things and blowing stuff up. They were introduced to us and we got a taste for it. It had some downsides with the over abundance of unrealistic CGI in place of practical effects, and of course not enough old action guys and too many newer stand ins. While it wasn’t a bad movie at all, it just wasn’t the throwback that everyone was promised when Stallone introduced the project. Stallone handed off directorial duties to Simon West for the sequel, but still heavily influences the project from the side lines, tweaking it a bit more and adding more action stars, a lot more violence, and Van Damme coming out of DTV retirement to play an absolutely memorable villain.

Church (Bruce Willis), our resident CIA Spook is back in town and leverages Barney Ross (Stallone) and his team of expendables to go on a super secret mission to retrieve a black box from a downed airplane. Seems like a cake walk right? But like all things that are too good to be true, it really is too good to be true. Mysterious arms dealer and villain extraordinaire Jean Vilain (seriously, the villains name is Vilain) intercepts the mercenaries and ends up killing the the newest member of the crew, Billy the Kid (Liam Hemsworth) as a lesson to them. Church’s secrecy seems to have bitten them in the rear end, as the black box is more than “just” a black box. In it is the location of a secret stash of plutonium that Vilain plans on digging out of the earth and selling to the highest bidder. Something that would have been handy to know BEFORE the went in their blind.

Now Barney and the rest of the Expendables are off and plan on taking Vilain down, and take him down HARD. That means making a cross country Eastern European trip while they shoot down each and every member of Vilain’s crew, meet up with an old friend named Booker (Chuck Norris), make Chuck Norris jokes TO Chuck Norris’s face, and of course blow MORE Stuff up.

The Expendables was a fun action movie back in 2010, but The Expendables 2 was peak of the series. It just had everything going for it. Dolph Lundgren made his mark in the 1st film, but he’s on fire in this one, wise cracking everywhere and generally just having a ball. The action is bigger and bolder as well, expanding the smaller and more contained first movie into a real life 80s action film. Plus, this was the first time I think that we had seen Jean Claude Van Damme put in the effort into one of his roles that we were used to. He had gotten used to playing gritty and worn out characters for many of his DTV films of that era, but watching him in The Expendables 2 was like watching a kid in a candy store. That old 1990s and early 2000s charm was back, and the light in his eyes was just so much like his old self. Honestly, Van Damme and Scott Adkins absolutely made this thing truly special. A good villain is worth their weight in gold, and both men delivered that memorable scene chewing bad guy charm that elevated the entire film.

The Expendables 3:
The Expendables series has been a very lucrative series for Stallone and has certainly given me hours of entertainment, watching the old legends have fun on screen in a modern day environment. It’s never been highbrow entertainment, and never pretended it was either. The first movie was supposed to be a throwback to the golden 80’s of action movies, while it mostly succeeded, it had a few hiccups along the way. I really ended up enjoying it, despite its flaws, but the second movie took what was good about the first one, and just added layer after layer of awesomeness to the mix and was one of my favorite movies of 2012. It was as if Stallone learned from the mistakes of the first one fine-tuned the series.

The hype for the third movie was high among the action junkies online. The 2nd movie had given us a lot to talk about and now we could only wriggle in anticipation for what Stallone had in store for us this time. Then we started hearing some troubling news. The movie was no longer going to be rated R, but rated PG-13 to garner a wider audience. That was a little disturbing to fans, but then again, the series has never been a wildly R rated movie in terms of action, it’s hovered right around that line between a very hard PG-13 and a light R in regards to what’s shown on screen (minus some CGI blood in the first one). Then to make matters worse, the entire film got leaked online a few weeks BEFORE the theatrical release, causing quite a stir among the community and allowing some information to get leaked to the forums ahead of time, with some rather negative reviews. Still I stayed the faith and waited it out until the theater where I got to go and see these old legends perform once more. I have to say, that the negativity was not all unfounded, as The Expendables 3 takes a very distinctive dip in quality and becomes the weakest link in the series, hovering just under the quality of the very first one.

Barney Ross (Stallone) is back again, this time he’s got a few demons from the past to work out. After a botched assignment to take down a crime lord, the crew comes to find out that one of the founding members of the Expendables is back again, and actually turns out to be the crime lord they were sent to take down. This psychopath, one Stonebanks (Mel Gibson) by name, ends to sending Caesar (Terry Crews) to the hospital and almost succeeding in taking out the rest of the crew. Realizing that they are getting up there in age, Barney makes an executive decision and relieves, Christmas (Jason Statham), Doc (Wesley Snipes, in an awesome role as a newly freed founding member), Gunner (Dolph Lundren) and Toll Road (Randy Couture) from duty, in an effort to preserve them from ending up with the same fate as Caesar. Rounding up a new, much younger crew (think of a bunch of people around Liam Hemsworth’s age from The Expendables 2) and sets out to take out Stonebanks before Stonebanks takes out him.

But it's not exactly hard to guess that the young crew doesn't exaclyt works well together, and they end up getting captured by Stonebanks and his men. Now who you might ask is looney enough to go rescue them? Well you most certainly guessed it. Barney and the same people he just sidelined are out to pull off an impossible rescue mission, including the love/hate CIA spook Trenhc (Arnie) along with aging CIA black ops agent Drummer (Harrison Ford) in what is basically a latch ditch effort to rescue his friends and take down the absolutely lunatic that is holding them hostage.

I love The Expendables series. The first one had its flaws, but there was no disguising the obvious love for the old golden days when action stars could lift up cars with a single arm and shoot more bullets in one gun than most third world countries carried in an entire arsenal. The sequel was even better that the first, polishing up and fine tuning what was great about the first. I mean, you have all these stars having fun on screen, Bruce Willis, Arnie, Stallone, and we even have Van Damme and Chuck Norris in it as well. What’s not to like! The Expendables 3 suffers from too much bloat and an obvious attempt to rake in more money by softening the film to appeal to a younger audience. The PG-13 thing is small fry, the real problem here has to do with not being able to let cast member’s go. The main stars have expanded to accommodate the new people and that leaves less and less time for them onscreen. The addition of the younger crew was also a REALLY bad mistake in my humble opinion. They could have been an ok tool if they took up less screen time, but besides the first fight, you don’t seen the actual Expendables come out to do some serious damage until the hour and 20 minute mark!

Now, after voicing those complaints, there is quite a lot of good still left in the movie. Kelsey Grammer and Antonio Banderas do a very solid job at fill in characters, and Antonio Banderas really never disappoints when he is having fun like he is here. A down and out mercenary who needs a new home, he’s great at being the motor mouthed sidekick who is about as people pleasing as an adoring puppy, just one who can shoot really well. With Willis refusing to come back except for exorbitant amounts of money, Harrison Ford plays a creaky older CIA head honcho who just wants to take down Stonebanks, and he really works. Ford is great when he puts some effort in his role, and the cynical old spook is the perfect outlet for him to just ham it up. Plus, once the action starts up, the team really comes together and there’s a LOT of good combat scenes. The extended cut ads in a great hand to hand combat scene between Statham and Gibson’s main goon, which ends up being the highlight of the film. The same can be said for Banderas, who is hysterical in his combat scenes, especially when he’s trying to be lover boy with Ronda Rousey’s character while he shoots people off her back.

Now this brings me to the two shining stars in this movie, Gibson and Snipes. Both are old school action stars from back in the day and neither have lost their flair or their charisma. Snipes steals just about every scene he’s in with that old action flair he was so known for. Kind of like Van Damme in the second one, you love to see him ham it up and spout one liners while he’s taking down a horde of bad guys. He may have been out of the public eye for a while, but Snipes still can move, and move FAST in his hand to hand scenes. Gibson though, Gibson is on another level and every time I see him in a movie it saddens me because he’s only gotten better with age. He basically blacklisted himself from modern Hollywood due to his personal issues that he let become public, but the man is an INCREDIBLE actor. Lately he’s been playing villains and his star power is every bit as compelling as when he was on top of the world in the 1990’s. He eats up the role of Stonebanks with gusto, playing the man as a vicious killer who really has more screen time than any other villain in the series has ever had, which allows for some very powerful scenes between himself and Barney Ross. My only complaint with Gibson was that the inevitable fight between himself and Stallone was a little more truncated than I would have liked.

The Expend4bles:
Ladies and gentlemen, we have finally come full circle. I officially never want to see another Expendables movie again. I remember hearkening back to 2009 when I heard the first was announced, and was SUPER excited. We were living in the world of Greengrass style quick camera edit Jason Bourne knock offs, and action movies in general were dying in comparison to sci-fi and super hero films making their debut in full force. This was supposed to be THE film to watch if you like old school action. Sylvester Stallone helming a film that was supposed to be an ensemble cast of the big 80s and 90s action stars, and making it like the over indulgent cheese fests that we all grew up on. Unfortunately the film struggled a bit to be made, and Stallone couldn’t get all of his old 80s and 90s action buddies on board, having to make due with Jet Li, himself, Dolph Lundgren, cames by Arnold and Bruce Willis, and having to supplement the cast with Terry Crews and Randy Couture and Jason Statham (who actually is kind of on the cusp of belonging to that group, but barely being their predecessor in his career). End result, a decent action movie that had a bit too much modern day filming style, but enough heart to keep this old school Action guy coming back for more.

I don’t care who disagrees, but the Expendables 2 is by far the best film in the franchise. Stallone fine tuned the plot, and added in Jean Claude Van Damme and Scott Adkins as the two villains. Dolph is firing on all 4 cylinders, We get Chuck freaking Norris to show up, and both Bruce and Arnie decided to play bigger roles after seeing the success of the first film. Honestly, it was the peak of the series and I still love watching it to this day. Sadly they lost steam after that, and went the Bad Boys For Life direction in the 3rd film, attempting to hand the torch to a younger generation. Only thing is, the whole POINT of the franchise was seeing our old 1980s and 1990s action heroes blowing stuff up. There were some neat additions like Antonio Banderas but overall the movie was a flop, and supposedly the end of the series (to be fair, Wesley Snipes and Mel Gibson were the only saving grace of that film. Both men were having a BALL in the roles).

Now, fast forward almost 10 years since the 3rd film, and we had rumors that a 4th was being made. Originally Sylvester Stallone’s Barney Ross wasn’t even going to even be in the film, and Stallone himself wasn’t too hot to return. I mean, he’s almost 80 years old, and he’s not even in the shape he was 10 years ago (noting wrong with that, we all gotta get older), and the majority of the big names who were in the previous 3 were not that interested either. Then by the grace of God (or a curse from the devil), Expend4bles was born. Only thing is, most of the cast are gone, and Barney Ross is shoehorned in there for a grand total of 15 minutes to tie everything together, and that movie magic is LOOOONG gone.

To borrow a line from Pet Semetary “sometimes dead is better”. The Expend4bles is a torturous event that makes even this fan of big, dumb, action movies wish for a second drink just to make it through. Barney Ross and his aging crew of expendables are back for another mission, only this time it ends up taking Barney’s life by criminal killer Rahmat (Iko Uwais, who is way underutilized in the film). Christmas (Jason Statham) loses his spot on the team for going off mission and causing it to fail while trying to rescue Barney, and the rest of the team decide to go after Barney’s killer with their CIA boss Marsh (Andy Garcia) leading them. The rest is a nonsensical cacophony of non stop CGI action, with everyone shooting, punching, kicking and having the entire world green screened around them (seriously, you can actually see the lines where characters are green screened into an action background. Also, you can see the CGI muzzle flash on guns and blood looks more like CGI red paste than actual blood) while they try and hunt down the mysterious guy who killed Barney.

Honestly, NOBODY is having fun in the movie. Dolph looks worn out and absolutely BORED the entire film (he’s almost nodding off mid scene half the time), Jason Statham grits his teeth and growls out of the corner of his mouth the entire time, while Megan Fox does her best to look like Expendables Barbie with a crop top and fake….ummm….inflatable devices. The ONLY person who actually is having fun is Jacob Scipio’s Galan, who plays Antonio Banderas’s son from the 3rd film. The dude does an absolutely amazing job imitating Antonio’s mannerisms and accents. Even gets the inflections and quirks of the man JUST right. I honestly almost felt like I could hear Banderas speaking through him at times. It was simply eery. But that being said, the action is downright garbage, with squibs going off where they shouldn’t, everything CGI’d to death, and hand to hand fight scenes barely manageable. Tony Jaa and Iko Uwais are utterly WASTED, with both of their fights together more boring than the single 3 minute fight with Statham and Scott Adkins in the 2nd film. There’s no chemistry, the humor is stupid (there’s literally a scene where the white haired Expendables barbie tries to check out the size off Randy Couture’s manhood when he’s taking a , which is played off for laughs). Yeah, some things just need to die.




Rating:

Rated R By the MPAA (all 4 films)




Video:

The Expendables:
The Expendables was one of the early 2017 4K releases and sourced from a 2K resolution master that was used for the older Blu-ray. As such, it sports a fairly moderate, but not overly amazing upgrade from the Blu-ray disc. It was shot on old fashioned 35mm film, and looks pretty stinking good for the most part. The film’s daylight shots are clean and precise, with a well textured sunny Latin American environment to show off. Darker shots when the team attacks the Villa is when things get pitch black and rely more on black levels. The cheap CGI that was noticeable in the Blu-ray is even MORE noticeable on the 4K disc due to the elevated clarity. Facial details remain strong, but there IS some noisiness to the low light grain structure here and there.. Overall this was one of the better early 4K UHD releases (unlike the 3rd film).

The Expendables 2:
The 2nd film also was shot on 35mm film and transferred to home video with a 2K master, but due to the cooler colors and heavy stylizing of the film’s aesthetic it doesn’t look as good compared to the Blu-ray. The film is much less natural looking, employing cool blues and grays over the entire image, and a HEAVILY grainy look that emulates the raw and gritty look of 1980s films. Things are strangely desaturated much of the time, and while textures and fine details look better than the Blu-ray, it’s just not as staggering as one would expect. The grain almost approaches video noise levels at times, swarming a tad and looking a bit obtrusive if I do say so myself. Black levels are generally good, but I noticed some crushing going on, especially with the fight between Statham and Adkins in the cargo bay.

The Expendables 3:
Ugggg, we all remember this one. Since Lionsgate hasn’t remastered or re-done ANY of the films (they’re simply the same discs with a new silk screening for this set, both Blu-ray and 4K UHD alike), this suffers from the same abysmal transfer that we got back in 2016. Back then the 4K format was in it’s fledgling infancy and there were a few stumbles along the way. Unfortunately, this is one of them. The film was supposedly shot with Red Cameras and given a native 4K master, but the entire film just looks “off” compared to the Blu-ray. The Blu-ray looks fantastic, but the entire 4K image is milky and creamy, with black levels thrown out of whack, and there actually being less details in some scenes. The film’s color grading was concrete gray the entire movie, and that lack of black level quality mixed with a dimmer than needed look to the 4K UHD disc, and this was a near disaster. There are some decent scenes where sharpness and clarity in daylight are commendable, but most of this transfer just look AWFUL, and the worst of the series by a long shot.

The Expend4bles:
The Expendables flicks have always had a varied look to them, with the first being fairly neutral but DARK, while the second was heavily stylized to match the gritty look of 1980s film stock. The 3rd was rendered a flat and gray tone (with one of THE worst 4K UHD transfers of all time), but the Expend4blesis a much shinier and more clean look to it. It’s got some grim and grimy looks to it on board the ship, but overall this is a spectacular looking digital transfer in native 4K. Everything is razor sharp as can be, allowing us to see a bit TOOO much of the transfer at times (the CGI stands out like a sore thumb on the 4K disc as a result) and I noticed that there was some minor black crush inside the bowels of the ship. That being said, the Dolby Vision enhancements are amazing with this disc, rendering dark levels pitch black without sacrificing shadow detail, and the colors just POP with clarity (weirdly really noticeably in regards to the wood grain on enemy AK rifles. You can see the nuances and grain of the wood with the extra color and brightness). Usually 4K discs are much dimmer than their Blu-ray counterparts, and while the Blu-ray included IS a bit brighter, it’s not massively so. The film uses a really high nits count and it shows in spades. All in all, this is a VERY nice upgrade over the already stunning Blu-ray, and well worth the upgrade.





Audio:

The Expendables:
The original Blu-ray for both the first and the second film sported a DTS-HD MA 7.1 track that was totally reference, but for the 4K releases Lionsgate has upped the ante to Dolby Atmos. The excellence is simply continued and stacked on, taking the core of the 7.1 track and expanding it out to showcase some discrete overhead action when Statham and Stallone are flying the bird, and the surround activity feels just a tad more agile in how nuanced sounds shift from one position to the other. Still, this is a knockout and knock down drag out BRUTALLY in your face action track, and the Atmos is simply gorgeous to listen to. Bass is devastating with the sound of Hale Caesar’s AA12 shotgun cutting people in half, and the thundering score just pounds away at you. I don’t even have to say it, but an Expendables track is nothing but reference across the board, and the 1st one is no different.

The Expendables 2:
The Atmos track, on the other hand, is pure reference material, and the A-1 Sauce of the audio world. And by that I mean it’s big, it’s bold, and it’s spicy. This is an aggressive and massive sounding mix that just pummels you from the second the film starts till the hard rock ending credits finish up. Gunshots ring with power and authority, and the bass for gun shots is incredible. Surround channels are constantly active with the sounds of roaring planes, humvees, and general cacophony of gunfire that I swear my ears didn’t stop ringing once. There’s no bloat in the low end, just clean and clear bass that slams you back, but doesn’t suffer from being too one noteish.

The Expendables 3:
This was one of the few titles released back in 2016 that has a Dolby Atmos track, and it wass a showstopper. This is one of those aggressive, loud, powerful, and in your face tracks that just screams action movie. The gunfire erupts as if it’s going to take down your entire house with sonic bullets and the LFE is deep, powerful and an intense experience that will put a big silly grin on your face from beginning to end. Dialogue is always crisp and clear, and the dynamic range is absolutely huge, with some nice peaks and troughs at certain points of the movie. Surround activity is phenomenal with the kind of 360 degree immersion that really makes you feel like you’re in the middle of a fire fight. Just well done on all fronts, and another one for Lionsgate to be truly proud over.

The Expend4bles:
Yeah, not exactly a shocker hear that the Dolby Atmos track (found on the Blu-ray as well) is a KILLER audio mix that literally rocks you back into your seat and keeps you pinned there. Gunfire blasts off all around you, and the explosions and rocket fire from Barney’s old sky whale thuds with massive weight with every impact. The dialog is crisp and clear as expected, but I was really impressed with the overheads. There’s a ton of discrete info that shifts from overhead to the sides and all around the listening position in a way that kept me glued to my seat with a huge grin on my face (well, as much of a grin as I could muster considering how weak the story is). Simply put, this is a devastating and punishing mix that doesn’t let go until the credits and role and takes no prisoner. Rest assured this is pure demo worthy stuff here.









Extras:

The Expendables
• A surprisingly funny and informative Commentary from Stallone.
• Ultimate Recon Mode, a PIP feature that includes large swaths of Stallone's commentary with a wealth of picture in picture background material.
• Comic Con 2010 Panel (1080i; 45:29) a fun interview segment with the principal stars.
• Inferno: The Making of 'The Expendables' (HD; 1:31:42) a nicely in-depth look at the history of this project, including Stallone's own admission that he's past the days of carrying an action film by himself.
• From the Ashes: Post Production (HD; 26:36), a shorter but equally interesting look at editing and the like.
• Gag Reel (SD; 5:03).
• Deleted Scene (SD; 00:45), a brief snippet of Lundgren chewing the scenery from the opening Somali segment. Sorry, Dolph, no Oscar this time.
• Marketing Archive, which contains the Trailer, TV Spots, and PR Posters.

The Expendables 2
• Audio Commentary with Director Simon West
• Gods of War: Assembling Earth's Mightiest Anti-Heroes
• Big Guns, Bigger Heroes: The 1980's and the Rise of the Action Film
• On the Assault: The Real Life Weaponry of "The Expendables 2"
• Guns for Hire: the Real Life Expendables
• Deleted Scenes
• Gag Reel

The Expendables 3
• The Expendables 3 Documentary
• New Blood: Stacked and Jacked
• The Total Action Package
• Gag Reel

The Expend4bles:
• Audio Commentary with Director Scott Waugh
• Bigger, Bolder, Badder: The Expendables in Action
• More Than a Team: New Blood Meets Old Blood
• Theatrical Trailer

Final Score: ​

Lionsgate has come together to create this nifty 4K UHD steelbook of all 4 Expendables films this week, and it’s a pretty neat experience. They did the same for films 1-3 back in the day, but that steelbook is long out of print, and the artwork for this one is WAY better (in my opinion). There’s nothing new compared to the individual releases, but this makes for a nice way to get all 4, as well as get some cool collectible packaging. My one and only gripe is the fact that there is 8 discs in ONE case (4 on each side, stacked on top of each other). The whole stack pack thing is a personal pet peeve of mine as they scratch easier and just don’t look as nice. But I will admit that this makes for a very compact collection. Still recommended for fans of the series.


Technical Specifications:

Starring: Jason Statham, Sylvester Stallone, Terry Crews, Jet Li, Jean Claude Van Damme, Arnold Schwarzneggar, Bruce Willis, Megan Fox, Dolph Lundgren
Directed by: Sylvester Stallone / Simon West / Patrick Hughes / Scott Waugh
Written by: Varioius
Aspect Ratio: 2.39:1 AVC / 2.40:1 AVC
Audio:
The Expendables: The Expendables 2: English Dolby Atmos (Dolby TrueHD 7.1 Core), English DD 2.0, Spanish, French DD 5.1
The Expendables 2: English Dolby Atmos (Dolby TrueHD 7.1 Core), English DD 2.0, Spanish, French DD 5.1
The Expendables 3: English Dolby Atmos (Dolby TrueHD 7.1 Core), English DD 2.0, Spanish, French DD 5.1
The Expend4bles: English: Dolby Atmos (Dolby TrueHD 7.1 Core), Spanish DD 5.1
Subtitles:
The Expendables: English, English SDH, Spanish
The Expendables 2: English, English SDH, Spanish
The Expendables 3: English, Englsih SDH, Spanish
The Expend4bles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Rated: R (all 4 films)
Runtime: 435 Minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: November, 21st, 2023

Recommendation: Good Collection

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[Todd Anderson]

FANTASTIC cover art... WOW!

I'm reaaaaallly on the fence about watching #4. I enjoyed 1 and 2... never saw 3. I own it, but was a tad fatigued by the first two.

 

[tripplej]

I also agree, fantastic cover art.