Stallone and director Patrick Hughes let Snipes run wild in those opening scenes before, like the rest of the crew, he is fired.
Snipes' conviction occurred during that period: even if producers could respond to his performance in that film, it was too late, and Snipes was about to enter the clink.
He's no gimmick in that film, and it's genuinely not bending over to honor someone when you tell the truth: Snipes easily holds his own against co-stars like Don Cheadle, Richard Gere and Ethan Hawke. Snipes' last film of note was Brooklyn's Finest, something of a departure for him in that it wasn't a quickie action film, several of which clouded his late-career resume. But if the third film were a Snipes showcase, you'd be reminding the world of one of the great leading men, and how he's been missing. Others, like Stallone and Mickey Rourke, have continued slaving away at mainstream film to diminished returns. Many of them went right back to the direct-to-DVD fare in which they had specialized, like Dolph Lundgren and Jean-Claude Van Damme. It's not a surprise that The Expendables has done very little for the profiles of some of the actors involved. The camaraderie is so strong in these movies that you rarely see the characters, and the actors, so absolutely vexed by another in their midst.
Given his recent imprisonment (both Snipes' and Doc's), his character is a little unhinged, a little "off", as he rambles on about the unseen "original" Expendables, shaving his beard off with a knife. But when Snipes' Doc joins the group, suddenly the Frankensteined series is alive, brought to life by an errant bolt of lightning. The Expendables has been a franchise that built itself on inevitability, on a formula enacted to a tee.
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