The Losers

Plot synopsis:
The Losers are an elite black-ops team of United States Special Forces operatives, led by Lt. Col. Franklin Clay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) - Operational Control. The rest of the team consists of Capt. William Roque (Idris Elba) - Demo And Tactical; Sgt. Linwood "Pooch" Porteous (Columbus Short), - Transport And Heavy Weapons; Capt. Jake Jensen (Chris Evans) - Comms And Tech; and Sgt. Carlos "Cougar" Alvarez (Óscar Jaenada) - Long-Range Eliminations, who are sent to Bolivia in a search-and-destroy mission against a compound run by a drug lord named Fadhil (Peter Francis James).While laser "painting" the target for an air strike, the Losers spot a busload of school children arriving at the compound. The children are being used as drug mules. Clay tries to get their mission coordinator back in Washington, D.C., a man they know only by voice and code name, "Max" (Jason Patric), to call off the attack, but Max ignores Clay's pleas and orders them to proceed. Clay then orders the laser guidance system destroyed and informs Max that they've experienced irreparable damage to their guidance equipment and the attack will have to be canceled. Max informs them that the coordinates had already been locked in, so the jet pilot still knew where to go, and he was not going to withdraw his order to attack under any circumstances. Finally, the Losers attempt to contact the jet pilot directly, but the communications system on the aircraft had been locked out.Having no other option, and with only 8 minutes until the jet was due to arrive, the Losers decide to enter the compound and attempt to rescue the children. They come racing into the compound in their Hummer, guns blazing, shooting guards left and right, high and low. Their vehicle is destroyed but they manage to get 24 of the 25 children and hustle them back into the school bus. The final child, a young boy, was being held hostage by the drug lord and owner of the compound, Fadhil (Peter Francis James). After convincing Fadhil to release the boy, Clay is forced to shoot Fadhil when he makes a threatening move. He and the boy then join the others on the bus.The Losers and the children speed as fast as that bus will carry them, hurrying to get out of the kill zone of the aerial ordnance about to be released from the jet. The shock wave of the explosions drive them off the road and down a slope where they come to an abrupt stop. Everyone is okay. They call for a helicopter to come execute their pre-planned extraction. The load-master of the helicopter informs the colonel that they can't take both the team and the children, so the colonel tells him to take the children. Once the children are aboard and the helicopter takes off, the team hears the sound of an approaching jet. They watch in horror as the jet releases an air-to-air missile which destroys the helicopter and instantly kills all aboard.Knowing that the attack was meant to kill them, the Losers fake their deaths by tossing their dog tags into the fire of the crashed helicopter. They attempt to find their way out of Bolivia and back to the United States where the death of the 25 Bolivian children is a scandal. The government blames the children's deaths on The Losers by saying they were acting without sanction as rogue agents. The government claims The Losers are dead but refuse their families a military ceremony or funeral service.Roque is frustrated in his attempts to convince Clay to accept the fact that his life as a soldier is forever over, and that he has no hope of ever finding out who Max is, much less killing him, which Clay very much wants to do.Four months later, Clay finds himself being observed and followed by Aisha al-Fadhil (Zoe Saldana), a mysterious woman who proves to possess many unique capabilities. She at first seduces Clay, then tries to kill him in hand-to-hand combat. As they achieve a stand-off in their fight, Aisha offers Clay the chance to find and kill Max, against whom she also wants revenge, but she doesn't say why. She tells him she can provide all of the information, weapons and other items the team will need, including a way to get back into the U.S., undetected. Clay really doesn't have any other options, so he accepts the offer.Aisha then arranges for the Losers to return to the United States (New Mexico), smuggling them inside coffins. The team is completely outfitted with weapons, gear, and some information about Max and how he moves around. They hijack a military helicopter after using a military radio to call in a fake accident between a military vehicle (theirs) and a semi-truck on a remote road. They use a shoulder-fired missile to send the helicopter's GPS transponder way off into another area code, then fly the helicopter to a warehouse and give it a new coat of paint.We first meet Max when he is in Dubai attempting to force a deal with some Indian engineers or government officials for seismic nukes ("Snukes"), weapons that can cause an entire area to implode on itself, but without any radioactive fall-out. A Snuke was successfully tested when it was detonated on a small island and the island imploded and disappeared. The main official Max had been dealing with was having second thoughts and now just wanted Max to go away and keep his money. Max responds by having his henchman Wade Travis (Holt McCallany) throw the man off a roof. Max pretends that he hadn't meant for Wade to do more than punch the man around a bit, but that was just to show the others there that Wade was unpredictable and someone not to trifle with. One of the other men present promptly decided that they would be more than willing and able to work with Max in acquiring some Snukes.The team learns that Max often travels in a heavily guarded, multi-vehicle convoy, with himself situated inside an armored truck. They develop plans to intercept the convoy and kidnap Max. Clay and Roque direct the attack from their command vehicle, a beat up yellow Pinto. As the convoy moves quickly down a busy city street, Cougar shoots the wheels of the lead vehicle, causing it to crash and block further movement. The convoy stops and the guards exit the vehicles and form a perimeter. Clay steps from behind the wheel of the Pinto and fires a gas grenade into their midst, then Roque detonates an explosive device he had earlier attached to the fender of one of the convoy vehicles, blowing it high into the air.Pooch and Aisha then swoop in with the newly painted and outfitted military chopper, carrying a huge magnet that they attach to the top of Max's armored truck. Jensen, working from the sidewalk, and disguised as a hot dog vendor, fires a metal device that secures the back doors of the armored truck, preventing the occupants from getting out. As the helicopter lifts and carries away the armored truck, Wade grabs the controls of a .50 caliber machine gun and tries to bring down the chopper. He hits it, but Pooch is able to maintain control and fly out of range.When The Losers later open the armored vehicle at their remote warehouse, there are three security guards who come out, pointing their weapons. The guards know nothing about anyone named Max, and an inspection of the truck proves Max is not there. The guards prove to have been escorting only a small box containing an external computer hard drive, made by the "Goliath" mega firm. After the security guards are disabled with sleeper darts, the team becomes furious with Aisha for double-crossing them. Tempers flare and Aisha is nearly killed on the spot by Roque. Even after she tells them she could explain, and that they could still eventually find Max, Clay orders Roque to kill her, burn everything, and get away. Aisha hurriedly explains that the hard drive contains information that is critical to whatever it is Max is doing at the time, and if they can determine what that information is, they will likely be able to find Max and clear their names. Clay decides to postpone her execution.Capt. Jensen attempts to read the hard drive, but it's encrypted. He says it would require access to a Goliath system computer to be able to read what's on the drive. So, the team works up a plan to infiltrate the company that made the drive. Jensen poses as an in-house computer tech and manages to gain temporary access to one of the human resource manager's computers at Goliath. He does that by pretending to be a pizza delivery boy, quickly changing his clothes in the elevator (impressing some women who see him when the doors open once before arriving at his floor), then enters the office of the human resources representative whom he'd called to report someone exposing themselves on the main floor. He tells the human resources secretary that he was just going to quickly 'upgrade the firewall'.Jensen downloads the encryption key Goliath uses, but is soon confronted by an armed security guard, who was called by the secretary. Jensen knocks that guard down and runs, calling on his radio for advice on how best to escape the building. He's told to head to the north side exterior elevator lobby. He's trapped there by three more security guards, but after a stand off, where Jensen pretends to have invisible handguns he's pointing at the guards, two of the guards go down, shot by Cougar, who fired from a skyscraper a long distance away. The third guard voluntarily lays down on his stomach, as Jensen ordered him to do, and Jensen gets away.Back at the base, they find out that the hard drive is a kind of electronic credit card that holds all of Max's illicit funds, $400 million at the time, which he received for selling the Snukes to international terrorists. A list of frequent IP addresses are listed, including one that had been used frequently and which was traced to the Los Angeles International Port Of Entry. Jensen determines that all but $4 million of the $400 million could be directly traced. He was trying to sort out that last amount.Clay and Aisha leave the boys to it and hop back into bed together. Aisha keeps up with questions she had been asking about Fadhil, back in Bolivia.Jensen later reads more of what he finds on the hard drive. It notes that the Losers mission in Bolivia was a cover, so Max could steal Fadhil's drug money. Furthermore, he was able to locate the destination of that missing $4 million. It was paid to the daughter of the drug lord, Fadhil, a woman named Aisha. As he was reading that last tidbit, everyone on the team drew their weapons and pointed them at Aisha, while at the same time she drew two handguns and pointed the guns at two of them. Jensen didn't have his gun, but he was mostly concerned that Aisha was pointing her gun at his "junk." He said it didn't help when she repositioned the gun and pointed it at his head instead.It turns out that Aisha had needed the Losers to help her take revenge for her father and reclaim the money Max stole from him (she apparently didn't know her father was a drug lord). When she learned from Clay, during their pillow talk, that he and his team had targeted the compound for a hit, then called off the hit to rescue some children, and that Fadhil had been killed during their attack, she began to wonder if it was Clay that had killed her father.To end the stand-off, Aisha decides to shoot Jensen in his left shoulder and then runs into the bathroom of the hotel suite they were in, taking refuge in the bathtub as the team shredded the bathroom with gunfire. She is nevertheless able to make her escape out a window. Believing that she might betray them, the colonel gives the team members orders to go home and protect their family members, whose identities were known to Aisha. Each of the Losers in turn decide that they will continue on and help the colonel try to take down Max.The Losers break into a supermarket to get some items to patch up Jensen with, then continue to go ahead with the mission to take out Max, hoping to find some information on the servers at the pier to clear their names. The team get into action and plan their attack.Meanwhile, the Indian engineers have regained some of their bravado to challenge Max and they demand $1 billion in exchange for providing Max with some Snukes. Max, as always, doesn't demonstrably react to something that probably made him inwardly furious. Instead, he agrees to the demand and determines he can get the money from the CIA's coffers somehow.The Losers proceed with their attack on Max's base. Cougar takes out a sentry who had spotted Jensen as he was scaling the pier hanger building. Once safely inside, Jensen opens the doors for Clay and Roque, then heads for the main computer room. When Roque opens the door to a large container sitting on the pier and calls Clay over to have a look, Clay observes large pallets of U.S. currency and immediately suspects something is not right, that something had changed from what they expected to be happening. As he moves in for a closer look, Roque clubs him from behind, knocking him unconscious.When Clay regains consciousness, Max and Travis are making arrangements to exchange that container full of money for four of the so-called Snukes, and a Ducati motorcycle, situated within another container. However, Max suddenly changes the terms of the deal and tells the Indian engineers that he'll be keeping both the money and the Snukes. Further, in return for not killing them, they must arm the first Snuke. The engineer who arms the Snuke is shot in the head anyway. Max maintains control of a handheld pressure detonating device, set to less than 10 seconds.Clay witnesses the rest of his team members now in custody, all captured based on the information provided by Roque. He learns of Max's plan to frame him and his team for a major theft of CIA money. As Clay is being driven away in a car, Cougar, Pooch, and Jensen are being lined up to be executed. Pooch resists and refuses to get down on his knees as ordered, so one of the captors shoots him in both knees. Cougar is resisting allowing his hat to be removed and, as he is about to be shot in head, the shooter is distracted by Cougar's eyes, which are focused up and behind the shooter. As the shooter turns to look, he sees Aisha fire an RPG that explodes nearby.Cougar, Pooch, and Jensen fight against their captors, while Clay knocks out his captors in the car, forcing it to crash, and he escapes with a gun.In the heat of the ensuing battle, Aisha gets the drop on Clay and forces him to admit that it was he who killed Aisha's father. He tells her he wouldn't blame her if she shot him dead right then. Instead, she decides that they need everyone available to continue dealing with Max and his men, but she promises Clay that they would deal with the matter later.Roque supervises the loading of the money on Max's jet plane, but as the Losers are gaining the upper hand in the battle around him, he decides to try and escape with the money. First, he has to deal with Clay, who has managed to reach the jet and engaged Roque in a brutal fight. Roque is very good with knives and wounds Clay, eventually knocking Clay out of the jet and onto the pier. But Clay gouged Roque's right eye closed, maybe even out, before he was ejected from the plane.Roque orders to pilot to taxi to the end of the pier, turn around and take off. As Roque's jet heads down the pier, Wade had boarded the Ducati motorcycle and was attempting to intercept and stop the jet. Clay, meanwhile, was just coming to his senses on the pier, only to find the jet bearing down on him from one side, and Wade on the motorcycle from the other. He calmly speaks into a wireless earphone for Cougar to take the shot.Cougar is perched atop a container, suspended from a large dockside crane, and he sights and shoots at the motorcycle, hitting the gasoline tank and causing an explosion which hurls Wade forward into the jet's left engine. The engine jams and catches fire, while the flaming motorcycle crashes into the cockpit of the plane, exploding and killing Roque and the pilot. Burning money rains down on Clay, who had safely dived out of the way.As Jensen, Cougar and Aisha help the wounded Pooch, Clay spots Max climbing the stairs of a crane. Max is calling out on his radio for his helicopter pilot to come rescue him. Clay chases Max up to the top deck of the crane and gets the drop on Max. Max's rescue ride arrives, but decides to take off as Clay fires off a burst of automatic weapon fire at it. Max responds by revealing that he's holding a hand-held pressure detonating device to the armed Snuke. If he releases his grip on the device, the bomb will detonate within 8 seconds and basically take out Los Angeles.Clay shoots Max in the shoulder. Max is driven back and complains that the bullet really hurt, but he still had pressure on the device in his hand. Max then decides to get rid of the device and he flings it out towards the water. Clay doesn't hesitate even a second as he launches his body off the crane and dives after the device. He hits the water maybe a second after the device does and is able to grab it and reapply pressure to the trigger. Once he's back on the dock, he's given a roll of duct tape to use in securing the trigger.A phone in possession of the team rings and Clay is told the caller wishes to speak to him. It's Max, calling from aboard a bus somewhere in Los Angeles. He doesn't have much to say, just wishing that he and Clay could have found a way to work together. Clay tells Max that now that he knows what he looks like, he'd be seeing him soon. Max is approached on the bus by two big and mean-looking Latino men. When one of them tells him he's wearing a nice looking watch, Max just holds his arm out so the guy can remove it.The Losers help Pooch gain access into the hospital for the birth of his child, a healthy baby boy, blaming traffic for his delay in getting there. Later, they attend Jensen's 8-year old niece's soccer match, where Jensen picks a fight with a very butch female referee.

Tags: revenge, comedy, action, dark, murder

Review:
Good times.Some great locations, good editing (also nice marriage of comic book style to live action style in the credits),decent soundtrack.The Losers doesn't take itself too seriously, and neither should you..
I enjoyed The Losers against my better judgment.The premise and follow-through is kind of predictable, as it's about a group of elite fighters (think the A-Team) who get double-crossed by a rogue CIA agent and find a possible entry point with a mysterious woman to get back at him and clear their names.
But the cast is up for playing these parts with every ounce of fun and excitement in the material, and I liked seeing the camaraderie between Morgan, Evans and Elba (the latter really coming into his own as a star), and Zoe Saldana shows off again how she's becoming a formidable talent in Hollywood films.It's a hard movie to always defend for its plot inconsistencies, but it works in its own lets-just-play-it-loose logic.
And when it comes time for the BIG action set-piece at the end, it gives a good dose of what action movie fans look for: plausible implausibility, some gritty violence (albeit PG-13, it's still pretty intense), and a few real surprises in the course of events, for better and worse.
The film moves in an almost self-parodying way, as if it was aware that it was what it was, a slick, glossy, action- packed, and fun thrill ride from start to finish.The film is based on a comic book, and the story seems to prepare us for the upcoming "The A-Team" adaptation (which I'm looking forward to).
The actors seem to be having fun in their roles as the chemistry between the six leads show, but Jason Patric looks like he's having a terrific time, chewing every scene he's in and giving us what may be the funniest (although sometimes annoying) villain in years.The film has it's action packed moments and plenty of laugh-out loud moments, but that's about what you can expect from a movie like this.
With a cast like Zoe Saldana, Idris Elba and Columbus Short, I can't understand why this movie isn't still being talked about.
I knew Idris Elba for dramatic films but it wasn't until "Luther" that I started seeing him in action flicks, and after that I realized he is a very strong and athletic character, too.
First time I checked my watch: After 50 minutes.This is the first time I watched an action film in a long while and though it wasn't an excellent movie, I have to admit that it was entertaining.
The cast of protagonists is outstanding; they're funny (especially Chris Evans, whose "Don't Stop Believin'" rendition makes me want to have a Rock Band jam session with him; go Petunias!) and bad- ass, like watching a beer commercial about mercs.
The script is action- packed, with witty dialogue; the special effects are often exciting; the combat scenes are hard-core (and Saldana even makes hers sexy); the soundtrack is awesome; and the camera work adds just the right accent to the many adrenaline rushes.
All in all, this is not necessarily a movie that I recommend you make the time to see, but if you've got some down time and are looking for some fast-paced action with some witty and comedic dialogue, I'd highly prefer this film over similar movies like The A-Team.
The Losers is a film about a group of specially trained soldiers known as "The Losers," who basically deal with some of the toughest assignments the government has to offer, but when the group is framed and left for dead, they have to fight to get their lives back and stop an evil mastermind from creating a new world war.Directed by Sylvain White, this action-packed movie is full of funny one-liners, intense gun-fights and good acting for a straight-up action movie.
And then there's Zoe Saldana as the absolutely beautiful eye-candy Aisha, the ex-CIA operative who is helping The Losers take down Max (played by Jason Patric), the evil mastermind; she has great, sexy take-down moments during the action sequences.
Anybody asks me about a good action movie of 2010 id say THE LOSERS,yes the movie was brilliant and highly entertaining.Well the film impressed more with every minute that passed by,its witty,funny,& an action packed surprise for this year.If at all you are an action fan The Losers is gonna grip you solid.The film revolves around 5 well trained soldiers who because of a betrayal decide to take on those responsible..THE CIA...,I never expect action films to be good unless its some big franchise such as Die Hard or Terminator or X-men but now my expectations have changed i guess.The action scenes are well planned out and the movie has a stylish demeanor to it...absolute treasure for action fans,no way to be missed!!!.
From here on out it's true Michael Bay dedicated destruction with a sprinkle of wit, mainly thanks to Chris Evans (shame he couldn't have done the same for Fantastic 4) and Pooch's delivery of the line: 'Oh, this is Stupid Question Day' – you had to be there.It has a few shockers, despite being built on predictable foundations, which won't make you likely to stop rustling through the popcorn but gives the film a fluent flow as to not make the whole experience completely monotonous.
There are some outstanding ironic scenes (like the misunderstanding above the roof), some very nice action parts that somewhat recall the A-Team movie.
This movie was another one that piqued my interest with the trailer and like most action movies, it does enough to entertain without really stretching the medium as a whole.In deepest Bolivia, a CIA Special Forces team are assigned to take out a nasty drug baron but try to abort the air-strike after spotting children being used as human shields.
So when team leader Clay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is contacted by an alluring woman (Zoe Saldana) with a plan to get them home and armed to the teeth for revenge, Clay soon persuades his colleagues Pooch (Columbus Short), Roque (Idris Elba), Cougar (Óscar Jaenada) and Jensen (Chris Evans) to join him.
Created to appear like a comic book in motion, writers peter Berg, James Vanderbuilt and Andy Diggle have come up with a script that has defined some strong, unforgettable characters, outlined an all over the place story line, and managed to polish it all off with just the right amount of parody, humor, steamy scenes, and silly dialogue that makes the movie work.
The team is a talented and well trained unit and each of the members has a special identity and gift: Clay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is the leader (and womanizer), Roque (Idris Alba) is the brains, Jensen (Chris Evans) is the wildly funny guy, Pooch (Columbus Short) is the sensitive guy, and Cougar (Óscar Jaenada) is the sniper with the ever present hat.
Is she cheap to hire or people have distorted picture of an all-round-actress.But that stupid dialog/action between the characters is just another contributing factor to the epic fail story.Only plus for the movie are the bad guys.
My own fault as i totally admit i got the movie based on two facts, being that it starred Zoe Saldana who is really cute, and Idris Elba a talented British actor.And that's where the good points end.The film is so full of holes in the plot you could strain cabbage and actually straining cabbage would be preferable.
Don't you ever get sick of letting these money-grubbing villains in the big movie companies get away with making bad films like this?
The Losers is no Spider-Man, but it is headed in a better direction than DC recreation of Superman.Great dialogue and action push this films PG-13 rating, so don't let it steer you to thinking that this can't be a sweet action comedy.
It gave the movie a sense of reality as if a news team that just happened to get caught in the middle of the action is filming it.Read full review at FlicksWorthWatching.com.
I have no doubt that the comic book called The Losers was inspired off The A.Team, you'll seriously begin to see the similarities between them.The story starts with a black opps team called The Losers led by Clay(Jeffrey Dean Morgan), and the rest of the team are Pooch(Columbus Short), Rouge(Idris Elba), Cougar(Oscar Jaenada), and Jensen(Chris Evans).
The action where pretty good at first, but after a while it really starts wearing itself out, Chris Evans has the same sense of humor that he had in the two Fantastic Four films, this time it was not so memorable.
"The Losers" could've been done as a straight-up action film about a team of black ops soldiers getting revenge on the man who left them for dead, but director Sylvain White opts to honor the source material with an equally slick production.
There are a few scenes with Clay and Aisha, one being the only time hand-to-hand combat appears in the film (which is too bad, the scene looked and felt cool) and then there are some jumps over to the way Max crosses just about every man he works with.
Max is supremely unfunny, though it does work as a portrayal of a classic fictional villain.The pacing and cleverness of most of the action scenes makes "Losers" a good time.
This is the first time I watched an action film in a long while and though it wasn't an excellent movie, I have to admit that it was entertaining and quite surprising.
You could do much worse if you want a not-too-serious action movie rental, and especially if you used to like the A-Team.
It is a feel good laughing movie with some good action and a bit of everything for everybody.I know Morgan was better in Watchmen but this is completely different film, Evans is excellent in the role and Saldana is just stunning as always.
From 2003 to 2006, I was a regular reader of the comic The Losers; however, I confess that I could rarely understand what was going on in the plot.I liked the energetic narrative from author Andy Diggle, and the stylish art from cartoonist Jock, but the story was a labyrinth of alliances, betrayal, vengeance and mysteries, so I took the custom of accumulating the individual numbers during various months, in order to then read them all together and (theoretically) facilitate my comprehension of the complex story.So, before watching the film adaptation of The Losers, I had the awe that director Sylvain White was going to dilute Diggle's "voice", or that the story would loose richness in order to become into a simple vehicle for the action scenes.One of the reasons I liked the comic The Losers was its balance of action, intrigue and humor.The film adaptation handles the first two elements well, but the sporadic comedy sacrifices the credibility from the characters for the sake of some laughs.However, I appreciate the fact that co-screenwriters Peter Berg and James Vanderbilt were faithful to the comic, at the same time they avoided the arrogance from other screenwriters who try to "improve" the stories they adapt.Fortunately, The Losers eluded that destiny, but I still feel that the screenplay should have put more focus on the main plot, and to leave the "filler" for the hypothetic sequels (something I see as highly unlikely due to the poor box-office reception this film had).A problem of less importance in this film comes from the special effects.The Losers is not a constant parade of CGI, but the occasional instances of explosions, digital destruction and some blue-screen compounds look pretty deficient, and they run the risk of taking the spectator out from the story.I guess that the low budget from the film excuses that fails to some point, and it is needless to say that I appreciate the fact that this movie emphasized characters and story over visual spectacle; nevertheless, the poor quality of those special effects bothered me a little bit.And I also wished that the edition from this movie was less fractured and more logical...and I am not only talking about some fight scenes, but also about some dramatic moments.Talking about dramatic moments, I could not swallow the romantic aspect from The Losers; what worked in the comic along three years feels weak at being compressed to half an hour from the movie.But, despite its fails, The Losers kept me entertained, but it lacks of that indescribable "something" to make it memorable.Nevertheless, I think it is worthy of a recommendation..
Jason Patric was not a bad villain and I thought Zoe Saldana was the best of the the good guys.This movie is basically about revenge.
The film follows an ex-Special Forces team led by Clay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) that is betrayed on a mission to South America by a mysterious figure known only as Max (Jason Patric).
Left for dead, the team remains quiet in South America until they're approached by a woman of questionable intent, Aisha (Zoe Saldana) who offers them a chance to reclaim their old lives and get vengeance on Max.The cast was probably the only thing I really enjoyed about this movie.
I suppose if you aren't looking for substance and just want a fun action film, this could be just what you need.
The Losers is a great up lifting film full with quick one liners and an action packed storyline and really puts up as a contender against the likes of The A Team.
While this film may seem like another A-Team let, you tell you right now that you have never meet a team quite like "The Losers.Sylvain White's hilarious and audacious comic book adaptation is a work of art, well it is more like a grunge band song mixed with some good old action values, and revenge is a dish best severed cold.
Some may find "The Losers" well a loser and others will find it to be an extravagant and very well executed action comedy with some serious intellect, it's the kind of film that is just too good to resist and even harder to hate.What I like most about "The Losers" is the care that was taken into telling the story it is quite well crafted and played out on screen, how all the characters seem to bounce jokes and witty dialogue off of each other.
What makes it feel this way is the joke filled script by Peter Berg and James Vanderbilt they lay on the jokes, the charm, the cool hip vibe and the intelligence to make this action picture stand out amongst the crowd, while it may not seem like "The Losers" should work, it does.
It is an action film I am proud to say that I laughed so hard it hurt and was completely riveted by this film.The well know ensemble cast including Jeffery Dean Morgan, Idris Elba, Zoë Saldana, Chris Evans, Columbus Short, Oscar Jaendada, Holt McCallany and Jason Patric(who this film could have seriously done without.) deliver fine performances in a film that is better than it should be and allot more keen and intelligent than we would have thought.
Adding fuel to the fire is look-what-can-I-do editing that actively scrubs time (the 300 effect) and misappropriation of slow motion.With The Losers, you get the required levels of action you'd expect, but for a film that doesn't take itself seriously, it isn't funny.
Kind of ironic that its release is only a month or two before the big budget "A-Team".Okay, this question is for the guys......do you remember when you were a kid, and you saw an awesome action movie, and you thought is was cool as hell, but when you got older and watched it again, it was pretty stupid.
The Losers takes on entertaining action movies this year so far..
The Losers is such an entertaining way of delivering an action movie.
It is not slow-paced, everything is happening very fast so you can feel the energy from this movie and with all it's flaws and little clichés it's still one of the most entertaining action movies this year so far.There was no over-acting which was very good.
The rest cast are fine but a mix of stereotype good and bad guys.Director Sylvain White delivers an 80's A-team style, revamped actioner that's entertaining enough but feels longer than it actually is.
Maybe every scene was intended to be predictable, all the dialogue to be bad, all the action to be over-the-top like in the 'Crank' movies.
Fun, fast paced, seriously great dialogue..."Im like a black Mcguyver, Blackguyver"...The movie took the time to build the characters and the cast is overall a pretty good group of actors.
And if you are still game to catch "The Losers", then I guess you won't be bothered much about its ridiculous script that so often crosses the border to stupidity, or the inane lines.And if what counts for you is the action - accompanied by the Coke and popcorn, then you will find "The Losers" an unpretentious, testosterone-charged flick that you would wanna see with the boys - when there ain't no game on the TV.There's this bunch of five US Special Forces guys with silly nicknames like Clay, Jensen, Rogue Pooch and Cougar (Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chris Evans, Idris Elba, Columbus Short, and Oscar Jaenada respectively) who are betrayed by a baddie called Max (Jason Patric) and left for dead after botched mission in Bolivia.Left stranded in that godforsaken country, the five get high-paying jobs as consultants to the Bolivian military!
However, the mission goes south when the person, who sent them, Max, tries to have them eliminated.This movie is a feel good action comedy which has so many similarities to the A-Team.
The Losers gives comic book movies a bad name..
Agent Aisha (Zoe Saldana) tracks down the team for a mission to stop Max (Jason Patric) who is trying to sell a high tech weapon to the highest bidder.The movie doesn't waste any time on exposition or introducing the characters.
I watched both, The Losers and The A-Team, because I was in the mood for entertaining action movies.