The Expendables 3 (2014)

Knowing when to step back and let a younger generation take the lead is its own kind of wisdom. Patrick Hughes' "The Expendables 3" opens with Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) and his crew freeing former teammate Doc (Wesley Snipes) from a heavily armed prison train. Their next mission brings Barney face to face with Conrad Stonebanks (Mel Gibson), the team's co-founder turned ruthless arms dealer, whom Barney thought he had killed years earlier. When the mission goes badly and a team member is seriously wounded, Barney disbands his longtime crew, including Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), Gunner Jensen (Dolph Lundgren) and Toll Road (Randy Couture), to protect them. Instead, with help from a veteran recruiter (Kelsey Grammer), Barney recruits a new generation of younger, faster, tech-savvy mercenaries, including Kellan Lutz, Ronda Rousey and Glen Powell. With Harrison Ford as a CIA officer, Antonio Banderas as a hyperactive, motor-mouthed mercenary desperate to join the team and Arnold Schwarzenegger joining the fight, it becomes a clash of old-school muscle and high-tech skill in the team's most personal mission yet. The climax unfolds in the fictional country of Azmenistan. The third entry in the series was the first to be rated PG-13, and it was released after a copy leaked online.