The A-Team (+ Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] Overview
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
Customer Reviews
To be honest, well done fellas - which is fantastic.
Over the past decade, in my opinion, it borders the American director purely ridiculous low. I decided to bring my youngest son to the movies, that particular Saturday, and while this was the obvious choice for him (I-want-to-grow-up-and-fight-the-Daleks), and where I can not I really did not know what I expected today. There are many wolves in sheep, in recent years were not processedPropaganda of the worst kind (Hurt Locker) to the strange and wonderful - too many to remember - I thought this kind of movie we were just the equivalent of one hour or more shouting and screaming in Vista Newt Gingrich viewer through a megaphone for the beauty of "Home of the free."
Or something.
No, I was completely wrong. The film is very well literally in every sense - a story very intelligent and well prepared. Pure popcorn surprise, the kind of thingis causing fathers everywhere, whispering to their children: "I remember this stuff, if you were, you know, too young to bring together." The screen works well, play important ideas with visual welding, and you can really feel through it.
Not to say that it is quite easy for the eyes. I mean, some of the measures is quite extreme and it hurts to think that to happen, but this is also a tribute to the excellent camera work, I can not say more than thatbecause I have never been outside to do what appears on a large scale, and they do so well here.
Special effects? I think so. The idea that I really experience the real effects when boiling gross injustice and the sense of pure rage just under the skin of these figures is, but again, it works well, and the resulting large-flying things some bits are approximately the same level, but there would be a good movie without it.
It 'sad nowI've never seen the original television series The A-Team at all, but I think after this I will.
By the way, what is the A-Team, the inside of the A-teams? Watch and you'll know what I mean. By the way, that little scene in particular got a massive applause from the audience was more excited that I see with the public gradually from a mixture of traditional fathers and children is something like a bunch of drunken football fan crowd as the film progress morphed,So you can imagine what everything was like and how great it was to be there.
What was it? Manic, unpredictable and very, very pleasant, at least.
Highly recommended.
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