YOU'RE GONNA NEED A NEW PLANE

Rating: 6/10 (17 April 2018)

We love the movies when the old guys get together: "Expendables", "Red", and "Rocky 24" or whatever. What this movie demonstrates is that it is not enough to get the cast together to rehash old lines (heck it would have been nice to have seen more of that) but you really need a good script and some good new lines.
The opening sequence is a quick scene of the Expendables fighting Chinese communists. The good guys have round eyes and say, "Yo", while the bad guys don't...with 2 exceptions: Yin Yang (Jet Li) who is a good guy and some CIA agent who was a bad guy. I kept trying to figure out how his presence would figure back into the plot, but the film wasn't that deep. At one point Barney (Stallone) is running in the jungle, the next minute he is flying a plane? Did my theater cut out a scene?
Church (Bruce Willis) sends our group on a new mission which includes the new guy Bill the Kid (Liam Hemsworth) who wants to make this his last mission. As a loyal Trekkie I already knew what was going to happen to the new guy in the landing party. This then leads to a "payback" mission over an improbable scenario written by someone who knows nothing about the handling and storage of weapons grade plutonium.
The film attempts to force new memorable lines on us like "Rest in Pieces" which made me cringe. Arnold and Norris provide some cameo appearances with Jean-Claude Van Damme playing the bad guy...not just any bad guy but one with a Satanic goat tattoo on his neck. Seriously?
Stallone has done better. For all the big names, this is a mediocre script.
PARENTAL GUIDE: 1 F-Bomb, no sex, no nudity.