By the standards of his then-recent comedies or dead-end ’80s sequels, Cliffhanger is a fastball straight down the middle, despite the considerable handicap of being co-written by Stallone himself.
But it did arguably kick off his final run of maybe-kinda-sorta normal movies. It wouldn’t be the last time Stallone would bring himself back from the brink. 30 years ago, 1993 saw one of his biggest, as Stallone ascended from the zany-comedy hell of Oscar and Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot to the peaks of Cliffhanger and, later that year, Demolition Man. Plenty of actors’ fortunes ebb and flow over the years, but Stallone rivals his paison (and one-time collaborator) John Travolta for the sheer number of comebacks he’s attempted, and often pulled off. This sentiment should already be lurking somewhere in the back of John Spartan’s made-up head, because he is played by Sylvester Stallone, an actor who has integrated underdog stories, victory laps and comebacks into the full-body workout of his career. That might explain why it's been almost a decade since the last film, but, hey, we got here.“Not many people get a second chance, John Spartan,” someone tells the lead character in Demolition Man, a tough-guy cop from 1996 unfrozen in 2032. The fourth Expendables movie was looking like a pipe dream after 2014's The Expendables 3, when Stallone parted ways with the franchise over differing opinions on its creative direction. Tony Jaa, Jacob Scipio, and Levy Tran are among the new additions, with Indonesian actor Iko Uwais tapped as the main villain. Though the previous movies recruited shoot-em-up, smack-em-down legends like Jean-Claude Van Damme, Bruce Willis, Harrison Ford, Jet Li, Chuck Norris, Wesley Snipes, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, this fourth entry relies on some younger talent. The first Expendables film premiered in 2010, and, featuring some of cinema's biggest action stars, it became a box office hit that spawned three sequels. But according to the logline, new team members with new styles and tactics are going to give "new blood" a whole new meaning. Fox, as the only female lead, proves she can tangle with noted shark-scuffler Statham, executing a hurricanrana on the erstwhile Transporter during what's obviously foreplay.Īrmed with every weapon they can get their hands on and the skills to use them, the Expendables are the world's last line of defense, and the team that gets called when all other options are off the table.
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