The Expendables Movies in Order: Not So Expendable Watch Order
All-time greatest action movie stars are back in Sly Stallone’s The Expendable franchise. With multiple movies and new ones on the horizon, we have decided to show you the best way to watch The Expendable movies in order.
Even though this action movie franchise is not for everyone’s liking, it has to be said it earned enough money to justify its existence. Also, it is always a fun time seeing all these action stars from our childhood in action again.
Let’s find out how many Expendables movies are there, what order should you watch them in, do you need to watch them in that order and will there be more Expendables movies.
How Many The Expendables Movies Are There?
There are currently three The Expendebles movies. The movies are The Expendables (2010), The Expendables 2 (2012) and The Expendables 3 (2014).
The Expendables Movies in Order
The order of The Expendable movies is currently pretty simple. You should watch them in release order as they are continuing the story and adding new (old) legendary actors to the roster.
Still, the order of watching The Expandables franchise could change in the future, because there were some talks about new movies, including a spin-off movie.
The Expendables (2010)
Barney Ross (Stallone) has nothing to lose. Fearless and emotionally empty, he is the leader, sage and strategist of this strong marginal alliance. He is tied only to his truck, seaplane and a team of loyal modern warriors.
His team consists of Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), a former member of the Special Air Force, who excels at anything that has a blade; Yin Yang (Jet Li), a master of close combat; Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) has known Barney for ten years and is a specialist in long-barreled weapons; Toll Road (Randy Couture) is skilled in demolition and is considered the brain of the group and Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren) a combat veteran and sniper expert, who fights his own demons.
When a mysterious man offers Barney a job that no one else wants, he and his team of mercenaries embark on a seemingly routine task: to overthrow General Gaza (David Zayas), the dictator of the small island nation of Vilena, and prevent years of violence and death.
On a reconnaissance mission in Vilena, Barney and Christmas meet with contact person Sandra (Giselle Itie), an activist who has a dark secret. They also meet their true enemy; former CIA operative James Monroe (Eric Roberts) and his supporter Paine (Steve Austin). When things go wrong, Barney and Christmas must leave Sandra, thus condemning her to death.
Obsessed with this failure, Barney convinces the team to return to Vilena, rescue the detainee, and complete the task begun. And maybe to save his own soul.
The Expendables 2 (2012)
Mercenary leader Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone), knife-fighting expert Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), chest-to-chest expert Yin Yang (Jet Li), heavy weapons specialist Hale Caesar (Terry Crews), Toll Road explosives expert (Randy Couture), fast-paced Jensen (Dolph Lundgren), sniper Billy The Kid (Liam Hemsworth) and a rookie and Ross’s protégé go on a mission to Nepal to rescue Dr. Zhoura (Wenbo Li), who is being held by kidnappers and rescuing Trench’s mercenary (Arnold Schwarzenegger).
Upon returning to New Orleans, Billy tells Ross that he plans to retire from work and live with a girl. Later, Ross is forced to accept a new mission, to which he is sent by CIA agent Mr. Church (Bruce Willis). The task is to go to Russia and retrieve something that is in the plane that crashed.
Director Simon West took over the sequel to the second part, which was created on the initiative of Sylvester Stallone, but also Richard Wenk, in which Stallone reunited the largest action group of our time, but probably of all time. Besides him, there are Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenngger, Scott Adkins.
The Expendables 3 (2014)
Mercenaries, led by Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) and made up of Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren) and Toll Road (Randy Couture), release a knife specialist and doctor, better known as Doctor Death (Wesley Snipes), from a military prison during his transport by train.
They need a doctor to prevent a shipment of weapons from reaching a war instigator in Somalia. And when they arrive at the pick-up point, they are surprised to see a former war comrade from the Conrad Stonebanks team (Mel Gibson) selling weapons.
The team manages to kill all the smugglers except Stonebanks, who wounds Hale Caesar (Terry Crews), who is now in critical condition. While there are no Jean-Claude Van Damme, Chuck Norris, Micky Rourke or Bruce Willis this time around, new ones include Mel Gibson, Harrison Ford and Wesley Snipes, who will give you more than enough fun.
Do You Need to Watch The Expendables Movies in Order?
You need to watch The Expendables movies in order. Every movie follows the story from the one before and the character story arcs. Sometimes, even the new actors are connected to the stories from earlier movies.
Will There Be More The Expendables Movies?
The fourth The Expendables movie is in the works and should come out in 2022. There is reportedly also a spin-off movie centered around Jason Statham’s character in the works, titled The Expendables: A Christmas Story. In the past, there were talks about an all-female-centered movie called The ExpendaBelles. Unfortunately, we haven’t heard any news about that movie for a long time.
