DVD review: the losers

A group of soldier is betrayed and left for dead, now they are out for revenge.

Yes this movie feature a group of soldier on the loose, no this is not the A team movie, this is the other one and even if the team behind “The losers” insist that this is an entirely different affair I can’t help but muse that somebody, somewhere, thought that the A team movie would be an huge success and that therefore a redacted version could sneak in some free cash. Sadly for them out of the “summer of ragtag group of mercenaries’ blockbusters” this one felt short and was almost bombed at the box office.

This is honestly a shame, this movie is certainly not really that good but is certainly miles ahead of the expendable, at least it got a plot, a very obvious and banal one, but a plot nonetheless.

The secret weapon of this movie is the cast; they got a bunch of actors on the crisp of superstardom, so they weren’t that expensive, with spades of charisma and something to prove. Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Idris Elba, Chris Evans, Zoe Saldana, this is a very good line up.

Sadly all this acting power is squandered in an unbelievably silly plot. This movie got “Eco friendly” nukes, for the terrorist who doesn’t wants to pollute the planet, I’m not joking, check it out if you want. It’s not unwatchable, not at all, it actually held easily our attention for the whole running time, but it did it just barely. There were nice ideas every now and then, like an awesome fight between Zoe Saldana and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, but they were too few in a sea of banality recycled from countless other movies.

The direction and the overall manufacture of the movie are also really subpar. The explosions look fake, like those from 80s movies, and the action fails the deliver the initial promise. It’s a glorified tv movie but maybe in ten years it will be ailed as this generation “commando”.

Honetly I don’t think so.