Watching reruns of the 1980s television show, the A-Team, I remained curious as to what the "a" stood for. The 2010 movie adaptation was kind enough to show us during its running time.
"A" is for asinine.
Truly this film symbolized that Hollywood is running out of ideas and going for whatever they can get their hands on to cushion the blow of its heavy downfall. This doesn't always mean the movies are bound to fail, though most of them do, but it becomes painfully obvious here that nothing creative is brought to life, a plot that's half baked can still make it to the final cut and villains need no more personality than the gun in their hand.
Compliments go to Sharlto Copley for at least pulling off the role of Howling Mad Murdock and trying to take him in a different direction, but all of the other actors frankly are not working even close to their "A" game with this production. Newcomer "actor" Quinton "The Rampage" Jackson is certainly in the lead for barely putting effort into his character.
Nearly ever stunt pulled off in this movie uses the physics and logic of Saturday morning cartoons. No human body can hold against the things these men pull off with smiles on their faces, hoping the audience is eating up every explosion.
The plot feels like it was thought up at the last minute, with twists that can be spotted far into the distance and any tributes to the original show are brief and, just like the team's famous van, mercilessly crushed. Poor jokes like "Please don't tell me this guy is gonna kill me" sum up the best of this film's humour, with some comedic situations making no sense at all.
Frankly there's many films that come to mind when these actors have their names mentioned, and all of them stand with pride in comparison to this movie. With only two cameos from the original cast (of which one of them regretted even taking part later) the taste of this film is plenty obvious.
I pity the fool that watches the A-Team movie.
-Braydon K
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