Wednesday, February 29, 2012

2010 - THE LOSERS or the assembly line

An undercover team of commandos are after a drug lord in Bolivia (where else).  They are betrayed by their leader and now seek revenge.  Teaming up with a hot chick who is good with weapons they shoot a lot of people in their quest for justice,  etc.

Chick with a weapon 1

Nine count them nine writers were involved in adapting this comic book into yet another cookie cutter action film complete with washed out color, computer generated explosions jumpy editing, lots of smart ass one liners and lots of slow mo shots of the team walking around looking looking like bad "mo fo's."

Chick with a weapon 2

The Losers has dialog and plotting in that A Team like way.  In fact it's safe to say that The Losers is basically The A Team, not the film but the TV show version.  The cast is a group of actors I have never heard of playing characters I have seem in action films all my life.

Chick with a weapon 3

It's very comforting watching The Losers.  You know exactly where it's going from the first five minutes of the opening gunfight to the last five minutes of the ending gunfight.

97 minutes, written by credited writers Peter Berg and James Vanderbilt.

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