We start out in good old Mexico where thugs have John "Hannibal" Smith (Liam Neeson) captured and handcuffed to a chair. They try to kill him with his own gun but the trigger pin is gone. The Mexicans leave and Hannibal uses said trigger pin to get out of the handcuffs and then escape from the dogs. Cut to Templeton "Faceman" Peck, who's also in Mexico. He captured by the same gangs leader for sleeping with his wife. He is tied up with tires and about to be hung. Cue a car chase scene ending in a sketchy auto shop, we're still in Mexico if you haven't figured it out. Out comes B.A. Baracus, and he wants his baby. The people don't comply so he obliterates them all and gets his GMC Vandura. Hannibal meets up with B.A. and shoots him then convinces him to help him save a friend who's gonna die without his help. They haul ass to the site where Face is and destroy everything, and saved Face/the girl and heading back to an army hospital with the Mexican Gang behind. Here is where they meet up with the insane pilot H.M. "Howling Mad" Murdoch. Hannibal takes HM with him and they have to run in a medical helicopter from the same bandits from before. This is where B.A. almost falls out of the 'copter and now has a permanent fear of flying. The aerial dogfight rages with H.M. expertly maneuvering around everything fired at him until they finally fly into US air space where the enemy helicopter is destroyed. Now I've pretty much outlined the first 20 or so minutes of the movie. Now think all of that times ten for another hour and forty minutes. The rest of the movies premise is based around The A-Team trying to get back printing plates for US $100 bills that were stolen, but never need to be gotten back till present day. DCIS Capitan Charisa Sosa (Jessica Biel), former lover of Face, thinks that The A-Team is secretly behind all of this. While Hannibal thinks that a rival troop in the Army (Black Forrest) which is led by the evil mastermind Brock Pike (Brian Bloom) and Agent Lynch (John Hamm), is behind it with help from the another of CIAs Agent Lynch's.
Lemmie start off by saying this is a fun movie. You can't go in and expect logic and reality to help you understand the crazy s*** they pull off in this movie. We'll start with the acting which was great all around by everybody. Liam Neeson played Hannibal great. He's older and had big action roles before, so transitioning into the leader of the A-Team seemed flawless. Bradly Cooper cast as Face was a wise choice. I can't think of anyone better to have played the wise-assed ladies man more, than the woman approved Hangover veteran. Probably the most surprised I was in the movie was the acting that UFC's Quinton "Rampage" Jackson pulled off at B.A. I mean the dude was great in the hand-to-hand combat scenes, his comedic timing when he did jokes were great and even when B.A. accepted in prison to do no violence any more, the serious came over well on screen. Finally we have Sharlito Copley as the bat crazy H.M. Murdoch was spot on. When he need to be in pilot mode he did well on screen, but his comedic timing and the physical comedy he did were genuinely hilarious. Not to mention the scene where he was in the mental hospital and they broke him out using a movie and 3-D glasses was amazing! I'll touch on Jessica Beil as the hard ass captain, cause she did well in her role, and it's probably been my favorite things she's done. It was believe able that her and Face got together and it her as a leader in the military came across as something she can play well. Also the bickering between John Ham and Brian Bloom as the bad guys was like two evil geniuses trying to live in the same house and added a more realism that even though both bad guys are on the same side, they'll kill each other if need be.
Overall it was a little long at 2 hours, but hey! A good action movie in 2010 based of an old 80s TV series? Whoda thunk it? Rotten Tomatoes has it at a 52% (but the community has it at a GREAT 88%) and Metacritic has it at about 48%. I agree with the community on this one rather than the nasty ol' critics. The movie had good action, good comedy, insane action, a decent plot and was a fun wild ride the whole time. my parting words for this review are a follows, "I love it when a plan comes together!"
Rating for The A-Team: 8/10 or 4/5 Stars
BTW, this is Channing. She let me use her very pretty face and two thumbs up for all the good stuff in the reviews I do in my blog. Be nice and I'll post her in a bikini in my next review.
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