Expendables 4: the “worst” installment of the franchise arrives on Canal+

Jason Statham and Sylvester Stallone take more hits than they give in the fourth part of this saga broadcast tonight on Canal + from 9:07 p.m.

Updated July 19, 2024: Released in late 2023 and with barely $51 million in international box office receipts, and only $16 million in the United States and Canada, Expendables 4 was a huge commercial failure. And that's largely due to the disastrous reviews that accompanied the release of this sequel, ten years later: only 13% positive opinions on Rotten Tomatoes. Journalists were unanimous in tearing apart the brainless action film carried by Sly and Statham.

Expendables 4 Is it really that bad? If you want to make up your own mind, the film, which has barely exceeded 300,000 admissions in France, is being broadcast tonight on Canal Plus (and is already available on MyCanal). Firstwe still haven't seen it…

Article from October 10, 2023: ““Boring and tasteless”. This is the opinion of The Wrap, which summarizes in its scathing review: “The incorporation of 4 in the title Expend4bles is, unfortunately, the smartest thing this fourth installment has to offer.”

For The Hollywood Reporter, Jason Statham and Sylvester Stallone brought the franchise “at its worst”The journalist believes that the script itself “betrays the audience with a first plot twist so boring and so many others that they could only have been dreamed up by a bad screenwriter. Or in this case, three bad screenwriters. But who cares about plot or character development in a B-movie like this, you might say? Isn't the relentless action and gratuitous violence the whole point of the thing? Well, yes, it is. And on that front, the film disappoints as well, its limited budget making itself apparent through so many poorly executed digital shots against a green screen… So much so that it didn't seem like it when Fonzie jumped a shark in Happy Days.”

THE Expendables have become the “Disposable” for CNN, which is hallucinating: “In theory, it's hard to discount a franchise like this, given its title, and the ease of connecting new players with each game. But Expend4bles dark on all sides.”

The New York Times emphasizes the “last reel of the film, which is so horrible – so contemptuous of our efforts to accept all this in good faith – that we preferred to leave the theater with this image of a corpse giving the finger in our minds. It certainly seemed to be aimed at us!”

For Deadline, “Expendables 4 is ambushed by its own complete lack of new ideas or a better way to use these charismatic talents… Despite the incidental amusement provided by the presence of well-known stars, who are there for very varying lengths of time.”

With dismay, IndieWire ultimately writes that the film is one “one of the rare Hollywood sequels that is perfectly at peace with being so stupid!” In detail, the critic writes: : “This may be the first film Expendables which doesn't seem to be tied to the old Cannon Films trashiness taken to the extreme. It's a real 21st century trash movie: a movie in which the action itself is useless.”