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91The A-Team is literally a blast, from the opening credits containing more thrills than the average shoot-'em-up (and more laughs than some comedies), to a climactic orgy of CGI destruction.
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83The whole movie is a diversionary activity. It's trash so compacted it glows.
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80You could also say the picture lacks a coherent plot and complex characterization, but those are irrelevant to the genre. The movie is like a superior athlete who gets tongue-tied in a post-game interview but on the field is poetry in motion.
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75The A-Team is a Joe Carnahan movie, i.e., an experiment in propulsion and personality over substance and story.
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75The actors in The A-Team are all excellent, and they save a movie that routinely defies logic and physics Liam Neeson brings credibility and gravitas to any role he plays, but as "Hannibal" Smith, he swaggers like a paternal Han Solo.
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70If you are a stickler for movies that follow the laws of, say, physics, nature and common sense, The A-Team might not be for you. If, on the other hand, you get a kick out of exchanges like this - "Are they trying to shoot down that other drone?" "No. They're trying to fly that tank" - then you're in for a treat.
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70This revved-up movie version offers a perfect mix of non-stop thrills and clever dialogue, mixed with an engagingly light touch. Nobody is taking anything too seriously here, and that's the fun of it.
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70Best enjoyed (a la the "Mission: Impossible" franchise) by simply admiring the explosions and silliness without dwelling too much on the skeletal plot.
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63It's big, loud, ludicrous and edited into visual incomprehension. But pity the fool who lets that stand in the way of enjoying The A-Team.
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63Until a leaden third act, it IS reasonably entertaining.
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63The genius of a feature film based on the 1980s TV series is that it can't help but exceed expectations that are so low to begin with.
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63As it is, it's a passable diversion.
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63The players embrace this for the lark it is. Their pleasure in going this gonzo spills off the screen.
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60Both in name and spirit, The A-Team drags the Eighties into the 21st century, and you might be surprised to find -- if only briefly -- that you've missed them just a little.
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60An energetic escape from Development Hell: suitably OTT, often fun and always loud. The villainy is underpowered, the plot a mess, but Cooper and Copley impress. We, er, quite like it when a plan comes together.
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50Overlong, overblown and utterly forgettable.
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50Feels like the cinematic equivalent of the BP disaster in the gulf: It's a big-screen oil spill, a needless gushing of macho bluster and wild set pieces, and a waste of millions and millions of dollars.
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50A thoroughly unnecessary but nonetheless satisfying adaptation of the cheeseball 1980s TV series.
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50The problem is director Joe Carnahan, who's way too manic even when the formula calls for calm – he can't stay still long enough to drive home the punch-lines.
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50The diabolical sadist of the team was director Joe Carnahan.
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50The cast seems to have been assembled primarily for its blinking resemblance to the stars of the original Eighties TV series about a renegade group of former Army Rangers now for hire.
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50If you're looking for logic or finesse, The A-Team can be numbing. If you're looking for good cheer, hold out for egg nog at Christmas. But if you're a fan of causeless effects, consequence-free causes and digital Dada, let the silly times roll.
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42The film's featherweight tone and self-conscious excess would be a lot more palatable if everyone didn't seem so insufferably pleased with themselves. The film acts as if it's won the race before the starting gun has even been fired.
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42It probably won't matter to its core audience that The A-Team doesn't make a lick of sense.
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40Diced into hash, the action sequences are unusually painful: poundingly loud and punctuated by Liam Neeson's bark, Bradley Cooper's manic heehawing and a total lack of clarity.
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40Reasonably good fun. If you're a 12-year-old boy riding an intense Cherry Pepsi buzz and totally devoted to destroying some brain cells, that is.
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40An underwhelming experience. I pity the fool, as TV star Mr. T might say, who mistakes this for genuine entertainment.
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40The obstacle that the director Joe Carnahan and his colleagues failed to clear was finding the right self-mocking tone for a movie that was, by the looks of it, too expensive to risk real laughs.
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40Like Cooper's lady-killing character, Face, The A-Team is utterly convinced of its own lovability even as it strains our credibility, abuses our patience, and punishes our eardrums.
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40Carnahan stays true to the source material by delivering carnage without consequence (the machine gun-toting bad guys still can't hit a barn from the inside), his convoluted plot and multiple villains may challenge the attention span of the target demographic.
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38Bored out of my mind during this spectacle, I found my attention wandering to the subject of physics.
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38There's nothing exciting about this awful, over-the-top reboot.
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38As lifeless and unneeded as The A-Team is, it might have been worse.
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30The film seems nearly writer-free. Absolutely no time gets wasted on story, character development or logic.
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30Big-name star Liam Neeson looks on, trying to add some class to the joint, though even he seems to know it's a losing battle.
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25It's shaping up to be a long, dry summer, at least at the multiplex.
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Convoluted, overstuffed, turned up to 11, and yet, somehow, deadly dull--in other words, white noise.
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