In The Expendables 3, actions stars who've been seen in dozens of movies over the last 30 years take on another high impact adventure. This isn't the bloodiest action movie this year, but it's expected to pack a punch. Making the movie, however, has been so extreme that during filming, actor Jason Statham nearly died, according to the UK Mirror.

"He faced death. He was test-driving a three-ton truck and the brakes run out. It went down 60ft into the Black Sea and became impaled," Sylvester Stallone said about the accident involving Statham, the Mirror reports. "Luckily we had taken the doors off before. If anyone else had been in that truck we would have been dead because we were all wearing heavy boots and gun belts. We would have drowned. But because Jason is an Olympic-quality diver he got out of it."

If that accident is any indication of what to expect when The Expendables 3 hits theaters on Aug. 15, then it's sure to be a big summer action hit.

"The latest Expendables outing finds CIA contractor Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) back in the pilot's seat of his decrepit seaplane with his familiar team of mercenaries onboard, including Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), Gunner Jensen (Dolph Lundgren) and Toll Road (Randy Couture). This time they're on a mission to rescue one of their own, knife expert Doc (Wesley Snipes), one of the five original Expendables, who's been locked up in a black-site prison for the past eight years. Once Doc is safely reunited with Ross and the rest of the team following a kinetically staged opening shootout on a speeding armored train, they set course for the port of Mogadishu in Somalia, where heavily armed Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) awaits their arrival," reports the Hollywood Reporter.

But what about the movie? How excited should fans of the previous films be? Early reviews have been rough, but "Expendables 3" does get credit for all the stars that appear in it. As for Sylvester Stallone, the Hollywood Reporter had this to say, "Stallone himself sometimes looks weary with his mercenary-in-chief character and though his scripting does get off a few zingers, too much of the carefully crafted dialogue lands flat. Co-writers Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt appear to primarily enable Stallone's penchant for liberally unleashing firepower, only marginally contributing to enhancing character development with an excessive emphasis on exposition."

 The website Totalfilm.com also gives the movie big points, highlighting certain points in the screenplay:

"The Expendables 3 marks a sizeable improvement on the first two outings. Director Patrick Hughes (who made the polished action-western Red Hill) brings bigger and slicker set-pieces, the zingers are, well, zing-ier ("It's a great plan... if it was 1985") and the self-mockery scathes, with digs made at Snipes' tax evasion, Stallone's stroke and, most dangerous of all, Jason Statham's accent. And if the cast is now too big to handle (the old team inevitably get back in on the action, allowing for much dick-waving between whippersnappers and grandpas) then Schwarzenegger at least has fun popping up to fire big guns, chomp bigger cigars and bark "Get to da choppa!" Harrison Ford's operations officer Max Drummer, meanwhile, is a good deal more engaged, in every way, than Bruce Willis' Church."