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I have always given this show a top 10 point rating!!!!! When it was on TV

Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2021

The movie though??? Out of this world awesome!!! What is not to love about four falsely accused GI's running around America playing Robin Hood and righting every wrong they can? My only regret is THAT THEY DO NOT HAVE A FEMALE VERSION (LETS SAY IT'S CALLED ) THE VZ TEAM!!!! Why no one has written a female version of this TV Show/Movie is beyond me!!!! There are GI JANES that are every bit as rough and crude as these guys can be but add to that feminine moxie? Well know, I am sure that many more military GI's would watch it as well as every women who loves seeing wrongs made right. But ya got to do it right!!! With panache and style is the only way to go!!!That could be the second movie with Liam Neeson and crew as military advisors. And then the 3rd movie brings them together to save the old U S of A!!!

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Not Worth Your Time - DO NOT WATCH

Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2021

I loved the A-team on TV. It was funny, it had guns (but no one ever got killed), and they had likable characters. This movie by Joe Carnahan, is an abomination. I hope George Peppard was dead before this movie came out.

First, while there are many fine actors in this movie, their talents are wasted. They play characters you hope get killed, and the bad guys win. These are very very unlikable people.

Second, this movie wants to be an action-comedy. What it is a three day warmed over barf from a microwave. There is not many funny parts to this show, and all the gags are signaled well ahead of it happening. Might was well re-watch the Fast and the Furious for the 10th time. That's how telegraphed this show is.

Third, I personally found the character development here somewhat racist. They make the same stereotypical jokes out various nationalities.

I would avoid this movie if at all possible. If you do want to watch the A-team, find a couple of episodes of the old TV show. That was entertaining.

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A for Effort!

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2021

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Fans of the show will love the "origin" of the A-team. Updated to reflect the current Gulf Operations as opposed to the Vietnam war, but retaining all the great cammradie of the originals. The characters are still familiar and the action amped up to reflect modern sensibilities. A few differences: These guys shoot and kill on occasion. But BA is still afraid to fly, Murdock is still nuts, Face still gets the girls and Hanniable still loves it "when a plan comes together".

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Frank W.

THERE'S NO "I" IN THE A-TEAM

Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2021

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Here's a 'buddy' picture that works wonders by magic. . . the best one-liners, surprising scenarios and lots of presto-chango. We get bounced and beaten up, tossed out and thrown around all kinds of moving objects. There's love and loyalty and hate and betrayal. Nothing boring or disconnected. The A-Team fits together as one. Fun, full roles for the likes of Neeson, Brad Cooper, Jessica Biel. A great part for Quinton "Rampage" Jackson fully-humanizing and giving a real voice to Mr-T. The surprise diamond in the rough definitely is Sharlto Copley selling crazy like a fox. The script rocks! It's funny, irreverent, sharp and smart witty -- connecting the quips to the story. There's a lot to take in and accept as premise, but given it came out in 2010, the suspicions of CIA misconduct, assaults on military character, and the plight of the falsely-accused still vibrate. It's unfair to compare the A-team's personality mix with long-running franchises -- Star Trek, M.A.S.H., NCIS -- but I will.

Liam Neeson's "Hannibal" builds on George Peppard's character appeal -- touching all the right notes as the heart-tough visionary planner and mentor.

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Billy Syms

A-Team

Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2021

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The sound files is low in volume. A good solid plot. It had all the feel of the original A-Team, a lot more action of course. Many laugh out-loud moments. Over all I gave it 4 stars because of the sound volume. The acting was good, the casting was excellent. a great star line up. But as usual I am getting tired of the same old same actors. Hollywood needs to wise up and hire a new generation of actors. I like the way they left it open for future films. The A-Team is a good franchise and i would like to see more of them made.

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J. Elmquist

A+ for The A Team

Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2011

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In Hollywood, when you graduate an 80s TV Show into a major motion picture, comparisons will be made. I did this in another interview that I posted for The Dukes of Hazzard movie, it's inevitable. How faithful were they to the spirit of the show? Did they eliminate the bad and keep the good? In many cases, some TV shows from the 80s had a great premise but were dragged down by the perils of minimal TV budgets, short sighted producers and censorship. When they get 110 million and a competent creation crew behind them, their true colors can really come through. Such is the case with The A-Team.

I must say, I'm extremely saddened to hear that the movie didn't do well enough in the theater or even on home video to warrant a sequel. I think the casting of the four actors was brilliant and the story line aspired to the best aspects of the TV show. The A Team is a blast to watch. These four gentlemen have charisma and chemistry beyond belief and they really reflect a brotherhood far beyond the stale and 2 dimensional characters created by their TV counterparts. That's not to say the actors in the show were bad, George Peppard alone gave the show an aire of respectability. Dwight Schultz was always in perfect manic form and Dirk Benedict was most likely born for the role of Face. However, the weekly grind of making a show where automatic weapons are fired and cars jump several feet without hurting anyone becomes monotonous after some time.

Liam Neeson is undoubtedly one of the most charismatic actors of our time. No one brings his brand of leadership quality to the screen like he does. So who better to play the cigar chomping Colonial `Hannibal' Smith then him? No one. It's so easy to believe that everyone who meets this man feels like they would help him do anything. That if he asked them to do something, they would do it, no questions asked. Bradley Cooper is a perfect choice as well for Lt. Templeton `Faceman' Peck, the pretty boy, smooth talking `get-anything-if-you-need-it' operator. Sharlto Copley...who is this guy? I'd never heard of him but I have to say, he nailed the role as Murdoch. He brings just the right amount of wackiness mixed with competence to convince us to trust him, despite his `verge-of-insanity' characteristics. Then there's Quinton `Rampage' Jackson playing Bosco `BA' Baracus. Again, another guy I'd never heard of. I'm not familiar with the players in the MMA world but this guy really has something. He played BA with multiple levels of anger and sometimes emotion in just the right places. I was impressed with Quiton and I thought he filled the shoes of Mr. T and then some. The best part is the script allows us to believe these guys are a true working team that plays to each others strengths and helps balance their weaknesses. They're not perfect, but they are smart, competent and with the guidance of their leader, Hannibal, capable of doing almost anything.

The movie chooses to focus on how the four came together and their subsequent story that is the premise of the TV show; being convicted of a crime they didn't commit. The movie starts with a series of events that bring the four together and solidifies BA's fear of flying, for anyone who thought it was strange that BA (a former Army Ranger) would have a fear of flying, this explains it very well. It then jumps forward eight years with the four involved in the middle east conflict after running eighty successful missions and ready to be discharged. Of course, this is where it gets dicey. During a last minute mission designed to avoid political upheaval and bloodshed by a security/paramilitary contractor group, things go very bad. The four are arrested and tried under military tribunal, stripped of ranks and sent to separate incarceration facilities. Six months later they escape with the help of a twisted CIA agent (played by Patrick Wilson) and the chase in on to clear their names. Jessica Beil plays the DOD officer assigned to track them down and stop them. Being a former flame of Face, her character goes in full tilt but later starts to lean toward their cause. Both Wilson and Beil play their parts well as a split of their TV counterparts, Col Lynch and Col Decker. Oddly Wilson's character calls himself Lynch when he meets with Hannibal.

Joe Carnahan is the director behind this gem and I have to say, after watching Smoking Aces, I wasn't convinced he could pull this off. Not that Smoking Aces is a bad movie, but it had it's unbalances and it overdone characters to the point where it was almost cartoonish. But he most certainly did pull this one off. His direction and attention to character interaction as well putting in just the right amount of humor mixed with the more serious tone of the movie makes for a very entertaining picture. It takes the best aspects of the TV Show and works it all together very well. Sure there are a few `Hollywood' moments but they are easily overlooked in the course of the movie. Again I state that it's a shame a sequel won't be made due to lack of revenue but maybe if enough people read this review and trust my impressions, they'll give it a try. If anything, it's a fun movie and at least worth a look.

For Blu Ray fans, the Blu Ray of this movie looks awesome and sounds just as good.

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Professor Fangirl

Good re-boot of a childhood favorite

Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2011

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This review has two parts - the film and the actual DVD product I received from Amazon.

First, the film: the characters are classic and they are true to form for the original versions put on television in the 1980s. Sharlto Copley's performance as H.M. Murdock was particularly enjoyable. The film has the same sense of energy and fun that the series had while upping the ante a bit with the body count. In the original series, it was almost a point of pride that there were only 2 on-screen deaths during 5 seasons. I guess it's a sign of the times that a modern version had to actually kill some of the bad guys.

Some people don't like the film because they say it has plot holes and doesn't follow the "laws of physics." Well, duh! It's an action movie. More than that, it's an action movie based on a cheesy action TV series from the 1980s. That's part of the fun of the film. You don't watch guys fall to earth in a tank because it's real - you watch them fall because it's funny as hell to see them interact. If we watched films for "reality," well, films would be pretty boring. There's a reason films say "based" on true events instead of "here's everything exactly as it happened"...

I recommend the extended version of the film. Not only does it have the 2 extra scenes with Dirk Benedict and Dwight Schultz that appeared at the end of the credits when the film was in theaters, but it has some other scenes that really build the team rapport. I think it's a better version of the film.

Now, as for the actual product. My DVD (regular disc, not BluRay) has some issues. It skips or gets hung up on occasion, and at the same point in every viewing, the closed captioning will appear on the screen and hang two words there until I stop the DVD and start it up again. I don't know if this is a mass production problem, but it happens no matter what player I try it in, so... I'm in the process of trying to get a new disc.

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Fun to watch, but why Liam Leeson?

Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2021

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it is really a fun movie to watch, but Liam Leeson is just embarrassing, simply put a very bad actor. He can maybe play some boring roles, but even Schwarzenegger was better and more fun in such action movies/comedies. Liam must have good connections in Hollywood ;) Good for him, but not for us, the audience. So much talent out there and Liam is popping up again and again.

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Lee R.

Entertaining

Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2021

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I don't particularly like Neeson but I did find this movie entertaining. I "wonder" where those tank shells landed. Not to mention where those aircraft parts landed. But it's just fiction. It's kinda interesting that I haven't seen a revamped TV series of the A-Team based on this movie.

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spadersgirl (Lian)

Clever

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2011

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I never watched the A-Team show so I can't compare that with the movie. So my opinion is based on what I just watched. At the start of the film each of the four characters play a flat role: brains, brawn, ladies man, and the crazy one. The moment that the plan fails to come together and gets blown up (literally) in their faces the real humanity and more complex characterization is revealed. Some of that added characterization made little sense, for example, prison making Baracus "soft" and his hissy fit over his smashed up car along with needing to be drugged to get on a plane with Murdock. The plane thing kept reminding me of Cameron Diaz in Knight and Day and if you can compare the toughness between Quintin Rampage Jackson and Cameron Diaz then there is something very wrong going on.
Smith (Neeson), Murdock (Copley), and Sosa (Biel) were my favorites but all the other actors did an amazing job. There was a bit of a tradeoff between plausible and impossible action scenes but it all made for exciting viewing and didn't lack in the explosion department. I don't know if I would buy this movie (this isn't my favorite genre)but I would certainly rent it again because it really was good.

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Meat Brockwurst

Good, not great, but good.

Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2021

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Over the top, but what did you expect? Not much more to say, it is an "action" movie. If Chinese kung-fu practitioners can run on bamboo shoots, flip through the air for forty feet, these guys can "fly a tank." Good fun and worth the watch in my opinion if you are into "action" movies.

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Edward Guyer

A fun family movie

Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2019

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I thought the cast chemistry was great and nearly all of the movie flowed very well. I thought the ending was a little over the top but otherwise, the script held up. The cast was all true to the original characters with maybe Murdoch being more interesting than the original. I wish that the movie had done better when it came out to have warranted a sequel.

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