The A-Team (2010)
After many years of floating around Hollywood we finally get The A-Team adapted to the big screen staring Liam Neeson and Bradley Cooper. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... The A-Team.
There are a truck load of problems with this film, the plot is not especially great and does suffer a bit from being an origins film, some of the characters have been changed a fair amount and I do not really like the idea of trying to shoe in some character growth by making Face come up with the final plan. The biggest divergence from the series which generally involves the team helping an underdog and usually not killing one is in part due to the nature of this being what was obviously supposed to be the first film in a series. I am not really impressed with the direction of the action sequences either as the follow the modern trend of excessively short and rapid cuts.
All that being said this is a good film. You might wonder how this remains a good film despite all the problems with it and the answer is simple really, personality. This film has personality in spades and that goes a long way. Like a lot of kids I grew up on watching the A-team series and this is definitely not the truest adaptation possible but it is still fun, ludicrous and over the top all in a good way. Turn your brain off sit back and enjoy.
4/5 surprisingly good while being surprisingly bad.
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