“A-Team” Makes an A for Action and Adventure
Following the grand tradition of bringing beloved, slightly cheesy television shows onto the big screen, the movie powers that be have decided to make a go with the 80’s classic “A-Team.”
Yes, the show with Mr. T as an Army Ranger. Before you go into fits of hysteria, give me a second to sell you on the film,
The new film version of “A-Team,” starring Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper and Jessica Biel, is a thrill ride from start to finish and demonstrates what a real action film should look like.
The explosions are high-quality, the storyline engaging and intense, and the camaraderie between the four “team” members exciting and fun – all elements that make “A-Team” a worthwhile movie.
Picking up from the original series, “A-Team” is about four renegade Army Rangers who complete more missions breaking all the rules than following them. Upon completion of one mission, retrieving stolen money plates from Saddam Hussein during the Iraqis War, the team witnesses the death of their Army commander in a car bombing.
The team is then wrongfully accused of taking part in a mission without authorization, even though the authorization was from the deceased commander, and are held in army prisons. Yet you know how the story goes – prison won’t hold this team down for long.
What really pops in the film is the chemistry between the four members of the A-Team; Neeson as Hannibal, Cooper as Face, newcomer Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson as B.A. (Mr. T) and Sharlto Copley as Murdock. Neeson is the perfect patriarch character, corralling the playful antics between the other three.
Biel is underwhelming as an Army lieutenant who has unfinished romantic business with Face and doesn’t convey the power and authority to boss around the team. Plus, lieutenants don’t usually have a wardrobe like hers.
Run, don’t walk, to go see the new “A-Team” and make it your Plan A instead of Plan B.
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DVD Rental:Up in the Air – A top Oscar contender at this year’s Academy Award, Up in the Air is actually an enjoyable Oscar film starring George Clooney. Up is about a man hired out to companies to fire their employees and how the women in his life make him re-think his career choice and frequent flier lifestyle. Special feature highlight – an interesting featurette about the film’s opening sequence called shadowplay.
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