

Ross is thrown into a river, while Smilee, Luna, Thorn, and Mars are captured by Stonebanks' crew. Stonebanks' men catch up to them, with the aid of his GPS Tracker, and fire a missile at the team's van. Ross nearly kills him to shut him up but, despite Stonebanks egging him on, he stands down. In transit, Stonebanks taunts Ross and explains why he betrayed The Expendables. Ross and the new recruits infiltrate an office building Stonebanks is using and, having to kill a few men in the process including arms buyer Goran Vata, capture Stonebanks. Drummer has traced Stonebanks to Bucharest, where he is set to make an arms deal. The four new team members rendezvous with Ross's rival Trench Mauser, returning a favor for Ross. Skilled sharpshooter Galgo asks to be included in the team, but Ross turns him down. Marine John Smilee, nightclub bouncer Luna, computer expert Thorn, and weapons expert Mars. Blaming himself for Caesar's injuries, Ross disbands the Expendables and leaves for Las Vegas, where he enlists retired mercenary-turned-recruiter Bonaparte to help him find a new team of younger mercenaries. They are forced to retreat when Stonebanks drops a glide bomb on them from his helicopter, and Caesar is severely injured.īack in the United States, CIA operative Max Drummer, the Expendables' new missions manager, gives Ross a mission to capture Stonebanks to bring him to the International Criminal Court to be tried for war crimes.

In the ensuing firefight, The Expendables kill all but Stonebanks, who shoots Caesar. 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. They recruit Doctor Death to assist them in intercepting a shipment of bombs meant to be delivered to a warlord in Somalia.

The Expendables-led by Barney Ross and formed by Lee Christmas, Gunner 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.

The film features an ensemble cast of stars including Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Antonio Banderas, Jet Li, Wesley Snipes, Dolph Lundgren, Kelsey Grammer, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Kellan Lutz, Ronda Rousey, Glen Powell, Victor Ortiz, Mel Gibson, Harrison Ford, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. It is the third installment in The Expendables franchise, the sequel to The Expendables (2010) and The Expendables 2 (2012), and will be followed by The Expendables 4 (2023). The Expendables 3 is a 2014 American action film directed by Patrick Hughes and written by Creighton Rothenberger, Katrin Benedikt and Sylvester Stallone.
