The Expendables 3 (2014)

Name: The Expendables 3
Director: Patrick Hughes
Released: 2014

Barney, Christmas and the rest of the team comes face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks, who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney. Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to kill… or so he thought. Stonebanks, who eluded death once before, now is making it his mission to end The Expendables -- but Barney has other plans. Barney decides that he has to fight old blood with new blood, and brings in a new era of Expendables team members, recruiting individuals who are younger, faster and more tech-savvy. The latest mission becomes a clash of classic old-school style versus high-tech expertise in the Expendables’ most personal battle yet.

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Ruby Sparks (2012)

Directed by Jonathan Dayton

…few performers who break free from the threadbare restraints of the project at large?are Antonio Banderas (2012's " Ruby Sparks "), putting his underserved comedic spark to energetic use as an excitable sharpshooter desperate to join the Expendables, and Mel Gibson (2013's " Machete Kills "), as villain Stonebanks.

dustinputman.com ↗

The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017)

Directed by Patrick Hughes

Director Patrick Hughes (“The Expendables 3”) has a shaky hold on the proceedings.

startribune.com ↗

I'm genuinely impressed that a director as inexperienced and evidently talent-free as Patrick Hughes (The Expendables 3) was capable of doing so much jaw-droppingly wrong.

Rick Kisonak, Cabot Creamery • Seven Days • Aug 23, 2017

sevendaysvt.com ↗

The Hitman’s Bodyguard is done by two relatively new filmmakers: director Patrick Hughes (The Expendables 3), and Tom O’Conner, who wrote the little-seen Bruce Willis flick Fire with Fire.

Jack English • Tri-City Herald • Aug 17, 2017

tri-cityherald.com ↗

Director Patrick Hughes (The Expendables 3) has a little fun with some of the action scenes later in the film, but by then he’s pissed away so much of your goodwill that even the sight of a car getting hit mid-jump by a Mack truck fails to impress.

dsuzannemayer, Clint Worthington • Consequence of Sound • Aug 16, 2017

consequenceofsound.net ↗

Hughes, who made The Expendables 3 , is competent at staging action, notably a chase through the streets and canals of Amsterdam.

James Mottram • South China Morning Post • Aug 16, 2017

scmp.com ↗

Beyond that, there is not a single original or uniquely handled item to be had—our heroes are not particularly interesting, their hostile banter is contrived and never funny and the elaborate scrapes they get into are lazily staged by director Patrick Hughes, the auteur of “The Expendables 3,” a film that comes across like “The Philadelphia Story” in comedic terms compared to this.

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