Having been forced to remove the armor and his weapon, Ross and Stonebanks engage in hand-to-hand combat. As everyone makes it to Drummer's chopper, Stonebanks personally attacks Ross after shooting him down. When a second wave moves in, Drummer lands on the building to evacuate the team. The new and veteran members of the Expendables work together to kill Stonebanks' men. Drummer and Trench arrive in a helicopter to help, alongside returning Expendables member Yin Yang.
Stonebanks orders the Azmenistan army to attack the building with full force, including tanks and attack helicopters. As the final battle begins, Thorn uses a jammer device to delay the countdown, giving them just under half an hour before detonation. As both the young and veteran Expendables fight one another, Ross convinces them to work together to take down Stonebanks. They rescue the young mercenaries, only to learn from Stonebanks that he has rigged the place with explosives with only 45 seconds left for them to explode. Ross accepts, later accompanied by the veteran Expendables. While preparing to leave and mount a rescue alone, Ross is found by Galgo, who offers his services again. Stonebanks sends Ross a video, challenging Ross to come after him and giving him his location in Azmenistan. Ross kills Stonebanks' retrieval team and escapes. Ross is thrown into a river, while Smilee, Luna, Thorn, and Mars are captured by Stonebanks' crew. Stonebanks' men catch up to them, with the aid of his GPS Tracker, and fire a missile at the team's van.
Ross nearly kills him to shut him up but, despite Stonebanks egging him on, he stands down. In transit, Stonebanks taunts Ross and explains why he betrayed The Expendables. Ross and the new recruits infiltrate an office building Stonebanks is using and, having to kill a few men in the process including arms buyer Goran Vata, capture Stonebanks. Drummer has traced Stonebanks to Bucharest, where he is set to make an arms deal. The four new team members rendezvous with Ross's rival Trench Mauser, returning a favor for Ross. Skilled sharpshooter Galgo asks to be included in the team, but Ross turns him down. Marine John Smilee, nightclub bouncer Luna, computer expert Thorn, and weapons expert Mars.
Blaming himself for Caesar's injuries, Ross disbands the Expendables and leaves for Las Vegas, where he enlists retired mercenary-turned-recruiter Bonaparte to help him find a new team of younger mercenaries. They are forced to retreat when Stonebanks drops a glide bomb on them from his helicopter, and Caesar is severely injured.īack in the United States, CIA operative Max Drummer, the Expendables' new missions manager, gives Ross a mission to capture Stonebanks to bring him to the International Criminal Court to be tried for war crimes. In the ensuing firefight, The Expendables kill all but Stonebanks, who shoots Caesar. Arriving there, they reunite with Hale Caesar, who directs them to the drop point, where Ross is surprised to find out that the arms trader providing the bombs is Conrad Stonebanks, a former co-founder of the Expendables who went rogue and was presumed dead. They recruit Doctor Death to assist them in intercepting a shipment of bombs meant to be delivered to a warlord in Somalia. The Expendables-led by Barney Ross and formed by Lee Christmas, Gunner Jensen, and Toll Road-extract former member Doctor Death, a knives specialist, and team medic, from a military prison during his transfer on a train. 5.3 Unauthorized duplication and distribution.
Partly due to negative critical reviews and being leaked three weeks before its scheduled release, the film grossed $214 million worldwide on an estimated $90–100 million budget, becoming the lowest-grossing film of the trilogy. Unlike the first two films in the franchise, The Expendables 3 received a PG-13 rating instead of an R rating, which upset many fans of the franchise. The film premiered in London on Aug and was released theatrically on August 15, 2014, by Lionsgate. The story follows the mercenary group known as The Expendables as they come into conflict with ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks, the Expendables' co-founder, who is determined to destroy the team. The film features an ensemble cast of stars including Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Antonio Banderas, Jet Li, Wesley Snipes, Dolph Lundgren, Kelsey Grammer, Randy Couture, Terry Crews, Kellan Lutz, Ronda Rousey, Glen Powell, Victor Ortiz, Mel Gibson, Harrison Ford, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. It is the third installment in The Expendables franchise and the sequel to The Expendables (2010) and The Expendables 2 (2012). The Expendables 3 is a 2014 American action film directed by Patrick Hughes and written by Creighton Rothenberger, Katrin Benedikt and Sylvester Stallone.