Commissioned three months before the first installments release, the Expendables success proved Stallone's idea worked but took itself just a little too seriously under his direction. Enthusiastically welcoming Con Air Director Simon West, Expendables 4 understands its place as a ham-fisted, tongue-in-cheek blast that pokes fun at its mature-aged tough-guy hunks that play almost caricatures of their infamous selves to capitalize on audience nostalgia.
Don't worry about the plot, they sure didn't. As expected the storyline is completely incidental and irrelevant to high octane havoc, but it better be touched on all the same. After an exquisitely over the top opening sequence, where the fearless expendable pack of mercenaries and their catchphrase ornamented armored vehicles of mass destruction scream into a Nepalese village to dispatch legions of soldiers and rescue unlikely allies, Ross and his crew is ready for some down time. The mandatory rest period is interrupted however when CIA agent Mr. Church reminds Ross about an unpaid debt and the gang is conscripted to a seemingly simple extraction job and forced to accept the unwelcome assistance of code-breaker Maggie. When one of their colleagues is cruelly murdered by the villainous Jean Vilain, with the odds stacked against them the hired guns negligently enter hostile Russian territory in single-minded revenge mode.
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