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.
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