The Expendables 3

 Released Year: 2014

Directed by Patrick Hughes

Casted by:

Sylvester Stallone as Barney Ross

Jason Statham as Lee Christmas

Antonio Banderas as Galgo / Felipe Silva

Jet Li as Yin Yang

Wesley Snipes as Doctor Death

Dolph Lundgren as Gunner Jensen

Kelsey Grammer as Bonaparte

Randy Couture as Toll Road

Terry Crews as Hale Caesar

Mel Gibson as Conrad Stonebanks / Victor Menz

Harrison Ford as Max Drummer

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Trench Mauser

Kellan Lutz as John Smilee

Ronda Rousey as Luna

Glen Powell as Thorn

Victor Ortiz as Mars

Robert Davi as Goran Vata

 Story:

The Expendables—led by Barney Ross and formed by Lee Christmas, Gunnar 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. They recruit Doc to assist them in intercepting a shipment of bombs meant to be delivered to a warlord in Somalia. 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. In the ensuing firefight, they are forced to retreat due to Stonebanks' advanced weaponry, and Caesar is severely injured in the process.

Back at the United States, CIA operative Max Drummer, the Expendables' new missions manager, gives Ross a mission to capture Stonebanks in order to bring him to the International Criminal Court to be tried for war crimes. Blaming himself for Caesar's injuries, Ross disbands the Expendables, not wanting his team to get killed following him, and leaves for Las Vegas where he enlists retired mercenary-turned-recruiter Bonaparte to help him find a new team of younger mercenaries to pursue Stonebanks. The recruits include former U.S. Marine John Smilee, nightclub bouncer Luna, computer expert Thorn, and weapons expert Mars. Skilled sharpshooter Galgo asks to be included in the team, but Ross turns him down. The new team rendezvous with Ross' rival Trench Mauser, returning a favor for Ross, who has traced Stonebanks to Romania where he is set to make an arms deal. Ross and the new recruits infiltrate an office building Stonebanks is using as a meeting place and capture him. However, Stonebanks' men catches up to them, with the aide of his GPS Tracker, and fire a missile at the team's van. Ross is thrown into a river, while Smilee, Luna, Thorn and Mars are captured by Stonebanks. Ross kills Stonebanks' retrieval team and escapes.

Stonebanks sends Ross a video, challenging Ross to come after him and gives him his location in the country of Uzmenistan. While preparing to leave and mount a rescue alone, Ross is found by Galgo, who offers his services again. Ross agrees to give him a chance, later accompanied by the veteran Expendables. They rescue the young mercenaries, only to learn from Stonebanks that he has rigged the place with explosives. Thorn is able to use a jammer device to delay the countdown, giving them just under half an hour before detonation. Stonebanks then orders the armed forces of Uzmenistan to attack the building with full force, including tanks and attack helicopters. Drummer and Mauser arrive in a helicopter to help, alongside retired Expendables member Yin Yang. The new and veteran members of the Expendables work together to kill Stonebanks' men. When a second wave of Stonebanks' army starts moving in for an attack, Drummer lands on the building to evacuate the team. However, Stonebanks personally attacks Ross, Ross kills Stonebanks just as the batteries of Thorn's device run out and the entire building begins to explode and collapse. The team makes it to Drummer's helicopter and flies away to safety.

Caesar recovers from his wounds, and Ross officially accepts Galgo, Smilee, Luna, Thorn and Mars into the team. They all celebrate at a bar together.

 L² Scored: 1.5/10

L² Comment:

This is definitely not the kind of movie i wanna spend my weekend with. No doubt that most of them were big, or still big in the hollywood... But watching a bunch of old man fighting with each other makes me laugh. A few times i even "almost" fall asleep~ should i find the expendable 1 & 2 to watch? Or am i just wasting my time?

Get The Gringo (How I Spent My Summer Vacation)

 Released Year: 2012

Directed by Adrian Grunberg

Casted by:

Mel Gibson as Jack Sanders, 'Driver'
Kevin Hernandez as Kid
Daniel Giménez Cacho as Javi
Dolores Heredia as Kid's Mom
Peter Stormare as Frank
Dean Norris as Bill
Bob Gunton as Mr. Kaufmann

 Story:

The Gringo is convicted and sent to a Mexican prison for stealing money from a crime boss. As he learns his way through the town-like prison, he meets a 10 year old boy who is special because he has a rare blood type and a Mexican crime boss in the same prison needs his liver. It is up to the titular gringo to save the boy's life and break out of prison. As he gone his way of making the boy and his mother like him, he started to make his way into the mobster gang and get what he wants.

  L² Scored: 5/10

L² Comment:

I wanted to like this film because Mel Gibson is an actor & producer who i admire so much. This movie is written by Gibson and directed by Adrian Grunberg who used to be his assistant director in Apocalypto. I try my best to watch it, but some part is a bit dull for me and i don't really like it. However, this film receive a lot of good critics from viewers. Congrats

Apocalypto

Released Year: 2006
Directed by Mel Gibson

Casted by:
Rudy Youngblood as Jaguar Paw
Raoul Trjillo as Zero Wolf
Dalia Hernandez as Seven
Gererdo Taracena as Middle Eye
Jonathan Brewer as Blunted
Morris Birdyellowhead as Flint Sky
Story:

Flint Sky was leading his son, Jaguar Paw and others to hunt a tapir in the Mesoamerican jungle at the early 16th century. They managed to hunt the tapir while happily dividing the meat, they encounter a procession of traumatized and fearful refugees. They told that their village has beem ravage and they are asking permission to passed through. Flint Sky saw fear in Jaguar Paw's eyes and advice him not to let the fear deep into him.

Living in a happily village, Blunted was unable to make his wife pregnant. Therefore, everyone say he is useless. In the meanwhile, Jaguar Paw's wife, Seven was pregnant. During that night, Jaguar Paw dream of the refugees warn him to run. The next morning, a group of raiders lead by Zero Wolf came and attack the village. Jaguar Paw managed to send Seven and his son to a dry well before someone saw them. He then rushed back to punch off a raider who's trying to kill his father. But Jaguar Paw was defeated by Zero Wolf. The raider who has been punch off by Jaguar Paw is Middle Eye who is a bastard and he slice off Flint Sky's throat in front of Jaguar Paw for revenge. Flint Sky last word for his son is not to fear.

The captives are all brought towards the Maya City and they have gone through high and low until the children cannot cross through the big deep river. They passed through a place and saw a little girl with diseased and she make an omen and said a jaguar will ended these cruel raiders' life. While arriving at the Maya city, guys were color into blue while the woman are sold as slaves in the market. The high priest of Maya is doing the sacrifice ceremony for the god Kukulkan by digging out the heart of the captives and chopped off their head. When Jaguar Paw was about to sacrifice, eclipse came. The Mayan think this is the sign of the satisfied of the god and release the captives.

The raiders then brought all the captives to a field and told them if they managed to run through the place into the corn field, they will be set free. But during the run of the captives, most of them were killed. When its time for Jaguar Paw to run, he managed to run into the field and kill Zero Wolf's son, Cut Rock. Zero Wolf gone wild and together with his raiders, they went to hunt for Jaguar Paw. In the meanwhile, Seven was about to give birth in the well and was having difficulty to climb out of the deep well with her son, Turtles Run.

Jaguar Paw's mind is filled with his wife and son's safety. He run and run till he jump down the waterfall, but the raiders came along too. Jaguar Paw even falled into the quick sand and almost killed himself. He then realized he cannot run forever, he has to find a way to kill those raiders. He then find the poisonous frog, use its poison fluid as darts to kill some of the raiders and hand-to-hand combat and defeated Middle Eyes. In the end, he get Zero Wolf into the Tapir trap and killed him.

While still running off from another 2 raiders, they came to a beach and saw Spanish Ship on the sea and people coming in small boats. When the 2 raiders were stunned, Jaguar Paw when back to the well and save his family. Finally, they saw the ship, Seven was asking whether they should follow the europian but Jaguar Paw said they need a new beginning and went off with his family into the jungle.

L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment:

The movie starts with the epigraph of Will Durant: "A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within". I believe this is same and applied to modern country too...

Love Mel Gibson movie, think he's good in it. And i feel so lucky i m in the modern era now, can't bear to go through the life in the uncivilized period... hahaha~