The Expendables 5 has the opposite problem of another big-budget ensemble action movie franchise. Put simply, The Expendables 4 stylized as Expend4bles was so poorly received that audiences might not want a fifth entry in the series at all. The fourth entry in the Sylvester Stallone-led action series used its $100 million budget to reinvent itself, but refused to commit to any actual change. Initially, the film kills off Stallone’s Barney Ross, making way for Jason Statham’s Lee Christmas to lead the elite mercenaries. Unfortunately, Expend4bles made an embarrassing $51.1 million at the box office.

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