The Expendables" Episode 3: Veteran Goes Out, One Worth Two

Maximillian 2022-03-23 09:01:36

The film continues to follow the setting of the first two episodes of the film. The ultimate BOSS must be an American, the American arms dealer Stone Banks played by Mel Gibbs in this film.

Judging from the dialogue between him and Stallone, he was also a pioneer in the creation of the death squad, but later a disagreement occurred during a mission, and he added this sin to Stallone's head, roughly when performing the mission, He was betrayed, betrayed the team members, and a fire broke out, killing the team members.

Therefore, Stallone hated him so much that he had to eat flesh and blood.

He may be ashamed of Stallone, so in the prologue, he has the scope pointed at Stallone, but still removes the muzzle.

This is also the reason why in the movie he is particularly concerned about what happened to the eloquent Spaniard Gago when he was on a mission in Croatia, because Stallone's past experience was deeply troubled by the betrayal of his companions, so he repeatedly asked the bottom line, when Gago explained that he was When guarding the hostages, he was besieged and his companions were killed, but he survived, so as to prove that he was not fired by the team, which made Stallone feel relieved.

Infighting is the most terrifying disease of a team. Therefore, in the last scene, Stallone said some inspirational words when the old and new teammates were in conflict: "We must be united and must become a team."

In the opening battle of the film, the team of the death squad is in The Somali capital was on a mission to kidnap an opponent, only to discover that the real man behind the scenes was his former companion.

The fight ended in Stallone's defeat and one of his teammates was injured.

In this way, the theme of the film quickly changed, and it was no longer about destroying any arms dealers, but revenge for the brothers.

That's pretty much the common theme of the first two episodes. First, the mission is performed, and then in the process of exercising the mission, companion casualties occur, so the following mission has no political significance, but is completely a revenge in the moral sense.

This revenge is what impresses the audience. The masses do not ask about politics, but only emotions. If a movie wants to make its killings justified, it must find excuses emotionally. Hollywood just steals the boat and finds its own plot to persuade the audience, so that the audience will foolishly love and hate the movie.

With such a revenge plan, the movie can arbitrarily arrange the battle area according to the location of the villain's protagonist.

In the movie, we see that the place where the story takes place is basically the sphere of influence of the former Soviet Union. First, arms dealers showed up in Moscow and bought a botched oil painting that appeared to be laundering money for the sale of arms. Then he went to Romania, where he directly traded nuclear weapons with arms dealers. The third location is in Afghanistan. This used to be the battlefield of the former Soviet Union, and now the Americans have finally started to kill Afghan soldiers here with open and honest reasons.

Romania and Afghanistan are the two locations where the film takes place, and the different geographic locations of the two also lead to different strategies adopted by the death squad. However, the movie seems to be unfamiliar with and accustomed to the high-tech intrusion methods of other imitation films. There is not much technical content in Stallone's movies. The technical content will make you dizzy.

Romania, after all, the story takes place in the capital. There is a luxurious high-rise building. The opponent trades weapons here. The method adopted by the daring team is still the same old way. Cut the scoop, the knife will see blood.

Before going in, the movie somehow wanted to use a set of routines that spy movies often play, and also pretended to design a high-tech plan, only when Stallone came to the scene, he listened to the following high-tech plan: first invade the security server , bypassing laser motion detectors and biometric sensors, and then replacing surveillance video in CCTV systems. "

This set of methods is a trick in "Spy In Mission". Stallone listened to his subordinates and said it was like a fantasy, but all the team members praised it unanimously. He also had to pretend to be a big head shrimp and acquiesced to this high-tech intrusive program.

However, the movie introduced this set of tricks in a serious manner, but when it came to the actual entry, it returned to Stallone's usual method of attacking and hitting hard. I saw the commandos, who directly lowered the rope from the roof and rushed into the hall. It's a big killing spree, there's no need to hide it at all, that high-tech show is just a pretense of pretending to be a high-level temperament.

In this simple battle, the arms dealer was caught, but halfway through, the arms dealer's teammates drove a helicopter to help, so only Stallone jumped to escape, and all the other members were caught alive. This scene of a helicopter attacking a car is very simple. Compared with the "Speed ​​and Passion" series of aircraft attacking a car, it is completely pediatric. From this point of view, Stallone is most familiar with ground combat.

Stallone decided to single-handedly take revenge. In this episode, Stallone did show the characteristics of a hero in his old age. Even he himself felt that his old team was slow and unable to keep up with the situation. Helping the new blood, but the new teammates were no match for the strong firepower of the opponent, and they were all captured. In fact, the old teammates are not much friendlier than the new team.

Therefore, the film in this episode gives people a kind of sentimentality of the helpless old Zhuhuang. When the old teammates set off with the new recruits in Stallone, they were very lonely. When Stallone became a loner, the touching scene in the movie appeared: the old teammates ignored the previous grudges and returned to the team to help at the critical time. This is team spirit.

So this movie seems to be fighting and killing, but there is still human content in it, which is the spiritual pillar of this movie.

Don't think that this kind of human nature is easy to put in. You look at the Chinese movies that kill the movie and do not care about the past. It's annoying because the characters in it lack the brilliance of human nature, which makes their so-called feats from human psychology. can't accept it.

The advantage of the logic line of the movie is not to judge, they are all mercenaries anyway, the CIA tells you where the enemy is, just go directly.

The CIA replaced Mr. Church in the first two episodes with a fresh-faced old man who directly told the death squad that the enemy held hostages in a building in Afghanistan. The movie ended up being an Afghan slaughter. Except for the American arms dealer who was killed at the end, all the dead were Afghan ant soldiers.

This is the same as the Latin American soldier in the first episode and the Eastern European You Yong in the second episode. The different strengths of the Americans spread all over the world, and then used the lives of local people to serve him, and it was these innocent papaya heads that were killed and injured.

The main points of this fight are as follows: 1. Motorcycles speed up, rush up to tall buildings, fly out by inertia, grab the frame on the building, and climb up tall buildings. 2. Tanks attack the building, but the death squad heroes inside are safe and sound. 3. The helicopter shows the unrestrained killing of the Vietnam War. 4. The timed explosive device in the building can be blocked with a signal, but there is a time limit, and the last-minute rescue of a Hollywood movie can be easily sacrificed. 5 In the end, the building collapsed. After killing the arms dealer, Stallone flew to chase the plane, hung on a rope under the plane, and escaped safely.

In this episode, Jet Li was recruited by Schwarzenegger. In the final battle, he came out to help, but is it necessary for him to frown so viciously and kill his Asian compatriots so viciously? The character with a lot of money was snatched by Gago and became a talker in the film. The newly recruited female player with outstanding skills, also seemed to have a little fondness for Stallone, but Shi was very self-aware. When the female player hinted: If you were 30 years younger, Stallone said: I would be afraid of you.

In fact, what I am afraid of is that now, thirty years ago, he was just like a wolf like a tiger, and such a woman fell into the tiger's mouth.

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Extended Reading
  • Reagan 2022-03-24 09:01:33

    Not much to say about this series. . . Once you know it, don't ask for too much. . Anyway, the last battle is worth watching at home in the next HD version. .

  • Eveline 2022-04-24 07:01:04

    Good Sleep 2014/9/2@Ka Wah

The Expendables 3 quotes

  • Toll Road: They got valet parking here?

    Gunnar Jensen: [blasts a hole in the building with the tank gun] Yeah, there's some right here!

  • Trench: Hurry up. It's boring.