The A-Team (2010)
Country: US/GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 117m
Director: Joe Carnahan
Cast: Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Jessica Biel, Patrick Wilson
Synopsis:
An elite, but officially unsanctioned, group of former Rangers is manipulated into stealing counterfeit currency plates from the Iraqis, then double-crossed by rogue CIA and Special Forces operatives.
Review:
Symptomatic of a trend in action movies towards fairytale plotting and blokey humour, this facetious entertainment (the Scott brothers amongst others producing) bandies comic strip violence and wholesale destruction in place of suspense and emotion. Officialdom is automatically venal and treacherous, Mexicans are psychotics who beat their women, and best-laid plans demanding to-the-second timing never go wrong when they are enacted as they are expounded, thanks to the miracle of editing. Oddly diverting, but mainly just insulting.
Country: US/GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 117m
Director: Joe Carnahan
Cast: Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Jessica Biel, Patrick Wilson
Synopsis:
An elite, but officially unsanctioned, group of former Rangers is manipulated into stealing counterfeit currency plates from the Iraqis, then double-crossed by rogue CIA and Special Forces operatives.
Review:
Symptomatic of a trend in action movies towards fairytale plotting and blokey humour, this facetious entertainment (the Scott brothers amongst others producing) bandies comic strip violence and wholesale destruction in place of suspense and emotion. Officialdom is automatically venal and treacherous, Mexicans are psychotics who beat their women, and best-laid plans demanding to-the-second timing never go wrong when they are enacted as they are expounded, thanks to the miracle of editing. Oddly diverting, but mainly just insulting.
Country: US/GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 117m
Director: Joe Carnahan
Cast: Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Jessica Biel, Patrick Wilson
Synopsis:
An elite, but officially unsanctioned, group of former Rangers is manipulated into stealing counterfeit currency plates from the Iraqis, then double-crossed by rogue CIA and Special Forces operatives.
Review:
Symptomatic of a trend in action movies towards fairytale plotting and blokey humour, this facetious entertainment (the Scott brothers amongst others producing) bandies comic strip violence and wholesale destruction in place of suspense and emotion. Officialdom is automatically venal and treacherous, Mexicans are psychotics who beat their women, and best-laid plans demanding to-the-second timing never go wrong when they are enacted as they are expounded, thanks to the miracle of editing. Oddly diverting, but mainly just insulting.