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Give it up to the A-Team: they've always been good at demolishing things in big, big ways. Freed from the confines of the 1980s TV series, the 2010 blockbuster movie version allows the four members of the paramilitary squad to really amp up the mayhem to newly crazed heights. Liam Neeson plays team leader Hannibal Smith (inheriting the cigar-chomping from the show's George Peppard), and pro wrestler Quinton "Rampage" Jackson is "B.A." Baracus, the TV show's most iconic character (insert Mr. T "I pity the fool" joke here). As the vain Face, Bradley Cooper preens in convincing fashion, and District 9 out-of-nowhere star Sharlto Copley plays the unhinged pilot "Howlin' Mad" Murdock. These boys are on the trail of some money-counterfeiting plates, from Bagdad to Germany to places in between. It would be understating it to say that the plot is not of primary importance, although Patrick Wilson has some fun as a CIA official and Jessica Biel occasionally strikes poses as Face's ex-flame, now a military officer displeased with the A-Team's extra-legal shenanigans. The storytelling is insipid and half-hearted--but when it comes to snarky dialogue and two-fisted action scenes, director Joe Carnahan is in his comfort zone. It's reasonably fun watching the working-out of such logistical puzzles as dropping a tank (with crew inside) from a plane, or scattering the main characters on a dockside as cargo containers rain down from a ship looming above them. Good times, although is it asking too much for certain basic laws of physics (if you drop a human body ten stories, for instance, it might actually sustain injuries) to be used as a guideline? But worrying about such matters isn't in the spirit of The A-Team, which cheerfully ignores the petty concerns of credibility and logic. --Robert Horton
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5.0 out of 5 stars
I love this movie!!!!,
By Jelly Bean (Victoria, BC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The A-Team (DVD)
This movie has everything; action, humour, an actual story line. It is so much fun to watch! The only problem is that it does not look great on my dinky TV. This movie needs a big screen.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A great movie, it isn't. But it's enjoyable as entertainment.,
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This review is from: The A-Team (DVD)
It's an action movie, that remakes a TV series if I'm not mistaken. I'm not familiar with the source material, so I wouldn't compare it to that. And it's not anything that will sustain you through difficult times or that you could discuss at length with friends over coffee. But it works if you look at it through the comedic lens. Some of the action cascades are so unbelievable as to be funny to the second degree. The characters are stereotypical but sympathetic. And I think that the energy the actors put into the work make the characters rise just above the stereotypes they're based on. You'll laugh, you'll cheer, and you probably will have a good time if you're not going to nitpick at all of the unlikeliness.
5.0 out of 5 stars
one hell of a good time,
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This review is from: The A-Team (DVD)
Ignore the 1-star review that states the film is crude, swears non-stop and has tons of sexual innuendo...its obvious he/she didn't even watch the film if those are the points they stateAnyways this movie is a great action film that is the perfect popcorn flick. Non-stop action, tons of laughs, a great cast and enough mohawks to go around ;) at a running time of just under 2 hours I was glued to it throughout. I never even watched the original A-Team show but it made little difference as they explained the characters and made them their own (with a slight nod to the original as well within the movie) Pick this one up as it won't disappoint. After all...what other movie features a tank falling to the ground via parachute?
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