Expendables 4's Box Office Flop Confirmed The Sylvester Stallone Franchise's Biggest Mistake

The fourth movie of the Expendables franchise, 2023’s Expend4bles, was a disaster in pretty much every sense, that put the final nail in the coffin of a franchise which had already seemed dead and buried nine years earlier. When it first arrived on the scene, Sylvester Stallone’s tongue-in-cheek celebration of aging action heroes was refreshingly funny and self-effacing, while giving the genre it lampooned a much-needed shot in the arm. Three rinse-and-repeat movies later, Stallone, Jason Statham and co. really ought to have left it alone, but apparently couldn’t help themselves.