The A-Team is a very bad B
Testosterone in the carpet and a horde of improbabilities do not always something very entertaining. Talk to “The A-Team”, a futile and endless action film where four men wrongfully imprisoned seek revenge.
It is ironic that two “classic” muscular 1980s get a second life on the same Friday in 2010. Alongside the new version of “The Karate Kid”, which is surprisingly good road up to “The A-Team” movie adaptation of a popular American television series which aired for several seasons aired on NBC. Too bad that the pleasure is no longer the same.
The story seems unchanged. Four soldiers (Liam Neeson, Quinton Jackson, Bradley Cooper and Sharlto Copley) become mercenaries trying to find the identity of an individual who has disgraced. To do this, they are able to fly it into the pile and, if necessary, to wait until the very end to ask questions!
There is before and after there is. On paper, many famous actors have been involved in this project, and there is even the Scott brothers (Ridley and Tony) who act as producers. In fact, the ensemble has been presented to director Joe Carnahan, who since his very good first effort “Narc” is endless disappointing accumulated efforts indigestible (“Smokin ‘Aces”) and flawed (“Pride and Glory “).
The filmmaker continues to sink with the wretched damp squib written six hands. So much time lost to production as routinely stripped of that soul, which takes into consideration that it is the summer to provide something so indigestible that does not route. The narrative is punctuated by glaring anomalies where there is nothing better than an explosion scene to follow yet another lawsuit. For the spark of excitement, it will be ironed.
All this is of course treated in the mode of comedy and derision. Anyone who would have liked to laugh at this farce. But if this is not funny, how do other than look at his watch every ten minutes? For what is staged closely resembles what was the matter of uneven humorous though more relevant “MacGruber”. There are only cliches and stereotypes street, sort of confusing cross between “MASH” and “The Avengers”, but never the slightest smile which appears on the horizon!
Even the talented actors can not do anything to avoid the wreck. Liam Neeson finds the time long Sharlto Copley seems bored of “District 9″, Quinton Jackson is a pale substitute for Mr. T and Bradley Cooper has nothing to do but smile from beginning to end. Hard to blame him, because he is one of the few to play with the plastic and decorative Jessica Biel. Yet one of the very few places where you can see Henry Czerny, even if only for a few minutes.
In his recent excellent “Sherlock Holmes”, Guy Ritchie does not stint on the improbabilities abusing action. It did not just blow up his pace, but other assets to raise (a good plot, cast the perfect chemistry, a memorable soundtrack, etc.). He already had his game on the contrary, Joe Carnahan acknowledges the weakness of his cards, and put it all in with a long and repetitive object flashy forgotten that the time to say “turnip”. In a similar kind, it is not surprising to prefer the recent “The Losers” who at least had the merit of not too insulting the intelligence.
