22-09-2023 00:00 via theguardian.com

Expend4bles review – cigar-smoking Stallone leads way as retro franchise lumbers on

Jason Statham is the only bit of genuine oomph in a tired tale whose digital effects could have been shot on an iPhoneThere is room for debate about whether the number 4 in EXPEND4BLES – as the title is rendered on the poster – looks sufficiently like the letter A. Next time, it will be easier with EXPENDABLE5, then three movies later it should be EXPENDA8LES, and for the 50th film they can go for a classy Roman numeral to please the classicists: EXPENDABLES.Anyway, the lumbering gia
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