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THE A-TEAM
The A-Team is one of the most anticipated remakes of the older generation. Viewers of the old television series were eager to see if the movie could match up to the overly tacky lines and the extremely over exaggerated action; but did it? The Film stars an all star cast such as Liam Neeson (Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith), Bradley Cooper (Faceman) and of course Jessica Biel as Charisa Sosa. The film follows a group of Iraq soldiers sent to stop the printing of 100 Dollar bills. Plates were stolen by foreigners in order to print a billion dollars and these plates need to be found and recovered for the government. After completing the job, the A - TEAM returns home and in doing so, find that their Commanding officer is killed in a fatal car explosion. The plates are stolen by another Operative group, and Hannibal and his team are imprisoned.
After some time a CIA Agent comes to them and alerts them that they are needed to re-take the plates and ensure that all's well that ends well. Thats the Epic story in a nut shell.
This all being said, I myself never took an interest in the old television series and therefore, I will only be speaking from my experiences with the film itself.
The film took on a very regular and un-original story line. We've seen it a million and a half times already, and for that matter, going to see this movie for the story is an out for me. The action sequences are hardly impressive, nor are they overly long ~ I found that they were a little too short, and a little too over the top for my liking. Characters were made out to be GOD's in certain aspects.
Director Joe Carnahanput put in an effort to try and make this movie magical - that was obvious. With this being said however, he failed to do so. There were twists and turns which you may (or may not) have seen coming, and for that the movie gets a thumbs up. The let down of these little twists were; yup you probably guessed it. They were far too OVER THE TOP. Things that wee planned seemed to go far to well to plan. After viewing the movie yourself, many of you will more or less take note of that. None the less, all in all the director attempted to succeed, but inevitably failed to entertain me for the whole sequence of the film. I found myself coming out criticizing it more so than praising it.
With the negatives being viewed in the film, Neeson once again saved another film. His acting was solid and he carried the character of Hannibal out the whole way through; or at least i felt he did. Mister T's replacement of Quinton Jackson could have been better, but from what I could see, he put in a partially decent effort.
Will the film be as memorable as the Series? Hell No Fool!
THE A-TEAM
The A-Team is one of the most anticipated remakes of the older generation. Viewers of the old television series were eager to see if the movie could match up to the overly tacky lines and the extremely over exaggerated action; but did it? The Film stars an all star cast such as Liam Neeson (Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith), Bradley Cooper (Faceman) and of course Jessica Biel as Charisa Sosa. The film follows a group of Iraq soldiers sent to stop the printing of 100 Dollar bills. Plates were stolen by foreigners in order to print a billion dollars and these plates need to be found and recovered for the government. After completing the job, the A - TEAM returns home and in doing so, find that their Commanding officer is killed in a fatal car explosion. The plates are stolen by another Operative group, and Hannibal and his team are imprisoned.
After some time a CIA Agent comes to them and alerts them that they are needed to re-take the plates and ensure that all's well that ends well. Thats the Epic story in a nut shell.
This all being said, I myself never took an interest in the old television series and therefore, I will only be speaking from my experiences with the film itself.
The film took on a very regular and un-original story line. We've seen it a million and a half times already, and for that matter, going to see this movie for the story is an out for me. The action sequences are hardly impressive, nor are they overly long ~ I found that they were a little too short, and a little too over the top for my liking. Characters were made out to be GOD's in certain aspects.
Director Joe Carnahanput put in an effort to try and make this movie magical - that was obvious. With this being said however, he failed to do so. There were twists and turns which you may (or may not) have seen coming, and for that the movie gets a thumbs up. The let down of these little twists were; yup you probably guessed it. They were far too OVER THE TOP. Things that wee planned seemed to go far to well to plan. After viewing the movie yourself, many of you will more or less take note of that. None the less, all in all the director attempted to succeed, but inevitably failed to entertain me for the whole sequence of the film. I found myself coming out criticizing it more so than praising it.
With the negatives being viewed in the film, Neeson once again saved another film. His acting was solid and he carried the character of Hannibal out the whole way through; or at least i felt he did. Mister T's replacement of Quinton Jackson could have been better, but from what I could see, he put in a partially decent effort.
Will the film be as memorable as the Series? Hell No Fool!