The A-Team Movie Review

By Eddy

First, let me start by saying I recommend you watch this movie. 

If you like good old fashion action movies then The A-Team is there to fulfill your needs.  Fun movies are hard to find nowadays and there is so many Pixar like movies that one can wait for to enjoy.  That is what is so surprising about The A-Team , with all the disappointments hitting the screen this summer and even before; I came into the movie with D with extremely low expectations, hoping to not be too bored when I left the movie.  Instead of looking at my watch to see when it would end, I was looking at it to see how much more I would be able to get.

I was into the movie from the beginning to end. Again this is The A-Team , it was not a critically acclaimed T.V. show and the film isn’t going to be winning any awards.  It is meant to be a big dumb fun time for people, rather than War and Peace it is that mystery novel you bring to the beach. If you watch it in this context then I think you will be pleasantly surprised.

The show is remembered by most of my generation because of the fun almost cartoon like characters and the crazy action (for the 80s).  Throw in the fact that kids could watch the show because nobody really died (most of the bad guys were caught and handed to the police after The A-Team left), made for a formula that resonated. 

The A-Team film hits on most of these points.  The action was fun and memorable, while people did die, it was probably less graphic than most action movies and considering the violence and gore in movies like Saw , the latest Rambo and even comedies like Tropic Thunder.  The A-Team can be considered quite lame. Finally the characters for the most part are well represented. I will take them one by one: Hannibal Smith (Liam Neeson) – I thought that Neeson did a pretty good job.  While there might have been a bit too much hubris in his depiction (he was way too smug after one of his master plans worked out perfectly), for the most part I thought it was pretty faithful.  I kind of wonder if after Neeson hit with Taken , if they added some additional fighting scenes for the Hannibal character, because he was jumping out of windows and beating up younger guys allow over the place

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