Now I just found out that there are actually 2 competing films with the same idea. One from the producer of The Expendables and one from another producer with no association with the franchise. Although the idea of 2 would seem like a win-win, I actually don't like that idea because it will water down each one in the talent pool. I rather the A-Lister stick with the official franchise. People like Sigourney Weaver and Linda Hamilton, Uma Thurman, etc....belong in the official release.

There's a big kerfuffle about one of the plot elements of the story, and I have to say that I'm not a fan of the idea on the surface.  You just know that it wouldn't even be a suggestion with the guys.  Now, maybe it's a thing where it's the best idea that they came up with and found a way to make it work, but it sounds like a cheap go-to and just demeaning.  And it's really saying something for ME to say that.

I think... the problem is that you have to play this to people's expectations and assumptions (despite what they say about what happens when you assume), and the assumption is that this would be JUST like the male Expendables.  And this is something that would NEVER fly in the male Expendables.  "Oh, those guys with the squinty eyes, the big muscles and the tattoos?  Total s l u t s."  Yeah, no one would buy it.  And that's why you don't put it in this movie.

I feel like a bit of a hypocrite b/c normally I don't have a problem when this idea is used, you see it on Dollhouse and probably a bunch of other episodic shows, it's a ratings grabber thing.  But here it just seems even more cheap and pointless.

And I gotta ask, who's sending a plane-load of high class hookers to a remote dictatorship?  Who the hell set that up?  What WORLD does this take place in?

And... The series has quickly run out of steam.

I wasn't ever even sure if this movie was actually associated with the Expendables franchise.