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- A CIA special forces team are betrayed and left for dead by their superiors, galvanizing them to mount an offensive on the CIA.
- A tale of double cross and revenge, centered upon the members of an elite U.S. Special Forces unit sent into the Bolivian jungle on a search and destroy mission. The team-Clay, Jensen, Roque, Pooch and Cougar -find themselves the target of a lethal betrayal instigated from inside by a powerful enemy known only as Max. Presumed dead, the group makes plans to even the score when they're joined by the mysterious Aisha, a beautiful operative with her own agenda. Working together, they must remain deep undercover while tracking the heavily-guarded Max, a ruthless man bent on embroiling the world in a new high-tech global war.
- I put off dealing with this film for a week now, basically because it is crap. But also because prior to this film screening there were the obligatory previews, one of them was for the A-Team, which got me thinking "Ten years ago , a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire The A-Team." Now let's compare, just for fun.<br/><br/>"A while back a crack military unit was framed for a crime they didn't commit. After mistakenly being thought dead they lie low in the South American underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as a pack of idiots. Zoe Soldana has a problem, no one else can help, and she has found them, maybe she will team up with The Losers." Well as long as we are all agreed that the above doesn't sound like a generic rip off released in a poorly timed manner I believe we can move on.<br/><br/>I think the ideal target audience for The Losers have short attention spans, low standards and high pain thresholds. Therefore the rest of this review is in bullet point form.<br/><br/>The action is: - Heavily stylised but not really very violent.<br/><br/><ul><li>Perplexing. People are killed for laughs by the bad and good guys, yet sometimes we are expected to care and other times we apparently needn't.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>Full of hackneyed tactics and tricks, (Woosh, "I'm jumping away from an explosion!") - Hurried up for plot over logic, Top Secret stuff is accessed and downloaded in the seconds.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>Full of slo-mo, freeze-frame and even on screen cartoonery.</li></ul><br/><br/>The Losers are: - Well muscled and immaculately coiffed.<br/><br/><ul><li>Macho and wise crackin' even in the middle of a firefight.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>Brave and laugh in the face of danger, (again cracking terrible jokes all the while.) - Ethical, they'll disobey orders to "do the right thing".</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>Video game characters, judging by the fact that one shot in the leg can get up and run after being bandaged up. Yay health packs!! "Seriously, I've seen it. Shoot me." Jason Patric is: - An accomplished actor with a solid CV over many decades.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>Obviously in dire need of cash to ham his way through this dreck as the bad guy.</li></ul><br/><br/>Zoe Soldana is: - Hot, but somehow hotter when she was 9 ft tall and blue.<br/><br/><ul><li>Down to her undies a couple times in the film.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>Only in the film because of the two points above.</li></ul><br/><br/>And there were multiple scenes with American flags flapping in the background, I don't mean in the distance, I mean the whole screen had a Stars and Stripes backdrop. If this was to distract from how bad this is I understand, as many "US Americans" might not want to appear unpatriotic by booing anything with the flag in full view. (Seriously I had no idea the flag was in the background of the cast shot until I put the review up!) They should.<br/><br/>Final Rating – 5.5 / 10. So very unnecessary and annoyingly average. I didn't (and don't) think the A Team will be much chop, but it would need to suck right royal to be worse than this and they set things up for a sequel?!?<br/><br/>If you liked this review (or even if you didn't) check out oneguyrambling.com
- According to my IMDb profile (which I've only just managed to look at and an excellent feature it is too), nearly half the movies I've ever written about have been action flicks. No real surprise there - Hollywood continues to produce action films with startling regularity, each one with bigger explosions and more bullets than the last. But despite the shallowness, I confess that a good action movie can provide all the escapism and entertainment I demand even if my life hasn't been vastly improved as a whole. This movie was another one that piqued my interest with the trailer and like most action movies, it does enough to entertain without really stretching the medium as a whole.<br/><br/>In deepest Bolivia, a CIA Special Forces team are assigned to take out a nasty drug baron but try to abort the air-strike after spotting children being used as human shields. But their superior, a voice on the radio known as Max (Jason Patric), demands the mission be completed. Ignoring orders, they soon find themselves becoming a target for the CIA themselves and they quickly disappear off the radar for a while. So when team leader Clay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is contacted by an alluring woman (Zoe Saldana) with a plan to get them home and armed to the teeth for revenge, Clay soon persuades his colleagues Pooch (Columbus Short), Roque (Idris Elba), Cougar (Óscar Jaenada) and Jensen (Chris Evans) to join him. But can she really be trusted as the Losers soon find that Max has bigger fish to fry than a rag-tag bunch of apparently deceased soldiers? <br/><br/>Based on a comic series, "The Losers" feels remarkably like a slightly more humorous take on "Wanted". The film is crammed with slow-mo shots of explosions, gun battles and carnage erupting around the actors as they shoot, blow up and kung-fu-kick their way to the film's (faintly anti-climatic) final sequence. As a result, there isn't a great deal for them to do but Evans and Morgan do well, snapping off wise-cracks amid the chaos. Saldana, however, does her career a power of good - being the perfect blend of sexy chick and bad-ass heroine (which reminds me, I must watch "Columbiana"). The story doesn't really do much besides provide a variety of locales for each action sequence to take place although the stuff about Max's overall plan involving bizarre 'green' bombs is clearly nonsense. But the action is satisfying enough and isn't that what we want from an action pic?<br/><br/>True enough but "The Losers" fails to recognise a basic principal of action movies - context. Take "The Matrix", the spiritual basis for every action movie since (including this one) - would Neo's bullet dodging have meant as much if the story hadn't gripped us from the opening scene, that memorable chase over rooftops between Trinity and Agent Smith? "The Losers" can't make its mind up whether its a revenge story or whether there is a classic 'evil genius' story going on instead and as a result, it isn't as tense as it could have been. The humour also prevents tension building, although it makes the film more entertaining than "Wanted" which took itself way too seriously. Action fans would do well to watch this and personally, I'm looking forward to any sequel although judging by the film's poor box-office performance, that looks unlikely. It's not a bad film but one that just needed a bit less pyrotechnics and a bit more thought to it. Frustrating because I really wanted to like this more than I do.
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