One work too many for “Sly”?
Considering what Sylvester Stallone has brought to the history of cinema, we could consider him the dramatic failure of the Consumables 4released in 2023, is a detail and a problem of the rich. In fact, who besides Sylvester Stallone can claim to have created and carried forward three important and very popular franchises? The saga Rocky of course, then the movies Rambo. And even if the youngest, Consumables, It’s not on the level of either of the previous two, it was overall entertaining and still profitable in 4 films $855 million at the worldwide box office, which is far from dishonorable.
Sylvester Stallone and all his work deserve infinite respect, and it is this same respect that forces us to face reality: Consumables 4 it’s a total failure. And rarely, if ever, has a film of this caliber featuring “Sly” been so unanimously rejected.
Critical and commercial disaster
Stitched with white thread, with the threat of a third nuclear world war as a backdrop, staged with an almost archaic CGI, this fourth work of the saga that brings together several generations of action movie stars crashes on a grand scale. In the world as in France, the criticism is deadly. ON Rotten tomatoes, Consumables 4 gets a critical rating of 13%. Although the saga does not particularly aim to attract the critical community, the second work released in 2012 has 67% of appreciation.
On Allociné, fierce 1.4/5the average approval rating of the press, is assigned to this latest adventure of Barney Ross and Lee Christmas. Filmsactu writes about it:
It is incredible to have spent 100 million dollars for such an infamy, not even worthy of a DTV RTL 9.
As for French viewers, the rating is slightly better, since their average rating is1.7/5…At the box office it was a disaster for the previously profitable film series. For a production budget of 100 million dollars, its worldwide box office amounts to… 37 million of dollars. The failure is monumental, and all the more deplorable since, if the film had been beautiful and attractive, it could have led to the saga. the billion of worldwide box office receipts.
The end of the saga Consumables ?
In this fifth work there is the idea of a passing of the baton, with Lee Christmas (Jason Statham) who fully assumes the main role of the film. An episode for the death – at least symbolic – of the character of Barney Ross, which Sylvester Stallone believes has occurred since the realization of the project in 2016.
Jason Statham’s film, which thus loses much of its identity and its “meta” dimension created by Sylvester Stallone and screenwriter David Callaham. The action is incredibly lazy and the special effects are very weak, and overall everything appears strictly “useless“, as judged Variety.
In reality, few are surprised by the progress of a production constrained by Covid-19, already aged and on which Sylvester Stallone had soon declared he wanted to conclude. But it’s not the end yet Consumables. In fact, while he had initially announced that he would not be part of the 4th part, before finally being part of it, Sylvester Stallone seems to want to take the fate of his character and his saga into his own hands. In January 2024, Dolph Lundgren revealed that Sylvester Stallone was working on the fifth film :
I think he’s working on his version of a new chapter. If “Sly” is in charge, then yeah, I’m sure it’ll be fun to do.
Source: Cine Serie
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