"Every movie has a hero. This one has them all," brags the tagline for The Expendables, star and writer-director Sylvester Stallone's action-packed ass-kicker. Boasting an all-star cast — and featuring cameos from Bruce Willis (Die Hard, The Fifth Element) and Stallone's longtime rival Arnold Schwarzenegger (Terminator, Predator), his first on-screen collaboration with the Rocky and Rambo star — Lionsgate's 2010 franchise launcher assembles some of the biggest action heroes of the '80s and '90s alongside genre fan favorite Jason Statham (The Transporter, the Fast & Furious movies). Stallone and Statham lead a cast of Hollywood he-men that includes actual He-Man Dolph Lundgren (Masters of the Universe, The Punisher), Terry Crews (Gamer, Deadpool 2), former UFC fighter Randy Couture, and legendary martial artist Jet Li (Once Upon a Time in China, War), with WWE superstar Stone Cold Steve Austin as wrestler-turned-henchman Dan Paine and Mickey Rourke (Get Carter, Iron Man 2) as Tool, the Expendables' cowboy hat-clad tattoo artist. The R-rated action movie follows the titular team of elite mercenaries — group leader Barney Ross (Stallone), knife-throwing Lee Christmas (Statham), martial artist Yin Yang (Li), weapons specialist Hale Caesar (Crews), and demolition man Toll Road (Couture) — on a clandestine mission to the Gulf island of Vilena, where they must take out rogue CIA agent James Munroe (Eric Roberts). You can stream The Expendables for free without a subscription here on Pluto TV. If you're looking for a series you can binge-watch right now, all four Expendables movies — including 2012's Expendables 2, 2014's Expendables 3, and 2023's Expend4bles — are available to watch on Pluto TV and Paramount+ (subscription required). The Stallone and Statham-led sequels added such names as Jean-Claude Van Damme, Chuck Norris, Glen Powell, Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Ronda Rousey, Megan Foxx, Liam Hemsworth, 50 Cent, Kelsey Grammer, Mel Gibson, Andy Garcia, Antonio Banderas, Wesley Snipes, and Harrison Ford. "By The Powers Vested In Me, I Now Pronounce You Man And Knife." Expendables 4 was the end of an era for Stallone: the actor, who also co-wrote the first three films in the series, stepped away from the franchise as he handed the reins over to Statham after playing a smaller role in Expend4bles. (Spoiler alert: Barney appeared to die in a fiery crash — presumably so that Stallone didn't have to lead a movie titled "Expend4bles," maybe the worst-named movie since Fant4stic — only to reveal he faked his death.) As Jacob Scipio's Galan puts it: "Only you could walk away from a blazing inferno with not a scratch on you." Just as the first Expendables ended with the cigar-chomping, motorcycle-riding group of mercs riding off to the tune of the Thin Lizzy song "The Boys Are Back in Town," Expend4bles brought Stallone's time with the series to an end with the very same song. To borrow a phrase from Schwarzenegger: Stallone won't be back. In a 2021 Instagram post, Stallone announced he was "moving on" from The Expendables after wrapping the fourth movie. "It's always bittersweet when something you've been so attached to, I guess, now it's been about 12 years," Stallone said in the video, adding he was "ready to pass the baton on to [Statham] and his capable hands." Stallone's last directorial effort was the 2010 original, which launched the franchise that has grossed a collective $840 million at the global box office. Stallone's Expendables opened at #1 with $34.8 million in 2010, but the Scott Waugh-directed Expend4bles flopped after an $8 million opening weekend in 2023; the film proved to be expendable at the box office with a final tally of just $51.1 million worldwide. The Expendabelles, a "female-driven expansion" of the franchise, is in the works from Eclectic Pictures (2025's Red Sonja) and Hollywood Ventures Group. Producer Heidi Jo Markel has described the Expendables spinoff as "a stylized, action-driven cinematic event designed to expand the mythology of the franchise while standing firmly on its own," one that will "introduce a bold new generation of elite operatives into this universe."