Das A-Team – Der Film (2010)

Das A-Team – Der Film: Directed by Joe Carnahan. With Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Jessica Biel, Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson. A group of Iraq War veterans look to clear their name with the U.S. Military, who suspect the four men of committing a crime for which they were framed.

“The Alpha Team, the heroes for hire, are back. But whom are they hired by? Nobody. This time they keep running away from the U.S. Military army justice, while trying to justify themselves. To beat the rap, to be cleared of blame they need to put the blame on someone else, right? And who is gonna that? CIA does. SuperMan, the flying guy from Krypton story with a family of Gods and Goddesses, has more brains than this.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWell, itu0026#39;s an action film, who cares about the concept? OK. If so.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAll the critics and complaints were about the shaky camera technique, the quick-cut editing style when it comes to action. Iu0026#39;m not gonna say everyoneu0026#39;s right, but they are not totally wrong either. The main issue is Director of Photography and Visual Effects. If you are not able to frame a good action scene in choosing the camera distance, zoom and aperture ; in the fear of looking so fake, then you can only be annoying. Iu0026#39;m repeating: Because of the effort of Visual Effects to be seen more realistic, the perfection of eye-view is being taken away. This is not new. It was just like the same issue with Quantum of Solace of James Bond. This only fits well with high-budget FPS action games on play-station(e.g. Call of Duty).u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWell, itu0026#39;s a character-driven fun and exciting mob movie, who cares if the action is only good as play-station games? OK. If so.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe characters. Who can say Hannibal, Murdock, Faceman or B.A. is better than the original? One of the few things I liked about this remake is the characters are introduced in a very cool way, instead of the opening credits. Best of all is the B.Au0026#39;s intro, with his tattoos on his body, Quinton Jackson brought about an entertaining u0026quot;voila!u0026quot; and kept the entertainment at high. Quinton was the only one I liked from the cast. Liam Neeson as Hannibal is trying to give a new dimension to the big shot character, his Hannibal Smith turned out to be a tasteless watermelon as Annabell Smith. Faceman is down too, but Bradley Cooper had nothing less than Dirk Benedict to play Faceman; sadly the script messes up with him. I want to add a big major complaint here: Originally Faceman is never ever became the leader of the crew, nor ever his ideas been appreciated by Hannibal. Hannibal had always thought that Faceman is just a great diplomat. But in the film we never saw Facemanu0026#39;s diplomatic success. Murdock as District 9u0026#39;s Sharlto Copley, he killed the good out of Murdock, the u0026quot;Howling Madu0026quot; Dwight Schultz character must have been as cool and as funny as Jim Carrey. Original Howling Mad has very unique skills, other than operating helicopters, he is a great way to distract the enemy. In war, the key for victory lies in the ways of distracting the enemy. But who is aware of that? They talk about M.Gandhi, but they got no any idea about war strategies. Supposedly they are the best Iraq war vets. It was a promising film, but sadly itu0026#39;s a failure. Finally, I tell you the worst part: Jessica Biel as army general. When she shouts to order her subordinates, and even yells at somebody; everyone just chops her off. What a commander out of blue! u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eItu0026#39;s easy to find a remake annoying with holding a candle to its original. But looking at all those remakes of this summer, this year, and the recent years; A-Team 2010 is one step before most of them. Itu0026#39;s a visual fest, full of action sequences, just between your breathes and blinking. But again, just donu0026#39;t call them A-Team, these new guys can only be an O-Team. Itu0026#39;s not Alpha Team; itu0026#39;s Omega Team.”