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The Expendables 3

4K Ultra HD

Blu Ray

  • Score
    64
    from 2 reviewers
    • The Expendables 3
    2014
    126 min
    PG-13
    True 4K
    HDR10
    Dolby Atmos

    Director: Patrick Hughes

    Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li

    Plot: Barney augments his team with new blood for a personal battle: to take down Conrad Stonebanks, the Expendables co-founder and notorious arms trader who is hell bent on wiping out Barney and every single one of his associates.

    Disc Release Date: 1 March 2016

    • Video
      61
    • Audio
      86
    • Extra
      59
    • Movie
      64

    all scores

    avforums review by Steve Withers
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    • Video
      50

      • The Expendables 3 was filmed digitally using the RED Epic Dragon at a resolution of 5K and it was finished using a 4K Digital Intermediate (DI), which presumably formed the basis for this Ultra HD Blu-ray...

    • Audio
      100

      • The Expendables 3 was released theatrically in a number of audio formats including both Dolby Atmos and Auro 11.1. The Ultra HD Blu-ray uses the same Dolby Atmos soundtrack that was included on the original...

    • Extra
      70

      • The US Ultra HD Blu-ray release of The Expendables 3 comes in a black Amaray case with two discs, the Ultra HD Blu-ray and the Full HD Blu-ray. The Ultra HD Blu-ray doesn't use regional coding, however...

    • Movie
      60

      • The concept behind The Expendables is a great one – get all the biggest action heroes from the 80s and 90s and bring them together in a single film. In fact the first Expendables film largely made good...

    • Total
      60

      • The Expendables 3 is the latest in the franchise that reunites ageing action stars from the 80s and 90s, marrying modern filmmaking techniques with a more old-school sensibility. The two previous instalments...

    Blu-ray.com review by Jeffrey Kauffman
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    • Video
      50

      • The Video score above refers to the original Blu-ray release. The 4K score is for the video quality of the UHD version. The Expendables 3 4K is presented on UHD 4K Blu-ray courtesy of Lionsgate Films with...

    • Audio
      100

      • Perhaps balancing qualms about the video quality of this release is the incredibly forceful and fun Dolby Atmos track that The Expendables 3 4KThe Expendables 3 Blu-ray review now clearly wafts overhead...

    • Extra

      • There are no supplements included on the 4K UHD disc. The 1080p Blu-ray included in this package includes the supplements I detailed in our original The Expendables 3 Blu-ray review....

    • Movie
      50

      • Whether March is coming in like a lion (Lionsgate?) or a lamb may depend in part on how you're responding to the newest format available for home theater aficionados, 4K UHD Blu-rays. This rollout has...

    • Total
      50

      • I probably obviously wasn't that big of a fan of The Expendables 3 to begin with, and little about this new UHD iteration other than the fun Atmos audio track has convinced me to change my mind. The video...