The A-Team by Joe Carnahan

So the TV show that I thought would never get made into a film has finally been released. The A-Team. It was a long running joke with my friends that if we ever got carte blanche to make a film we would do the A-team. Well seems like someone thought that was a good idea.

What I was hoping for from this film was my guilty pleasure film for 2010 and for the first hour or so I got that. But then I just got plain bored.

There is nothing essentially wrong with the film itself, i'm just left wondering, why bother?

All the boys look like they are having a great time in the film. With Bradley Cooper and Patrick Wilson my favourites. They both relish being pricks, but pricks you wish you were. While everyone else gives their ample support. Liam Neeson holds the team together with a great deal of gravitas. Sharlto Copley is allowed to go nuts and does so fantastically. His Braveheart scene had me in stitches. And Quintin Jackson as Mr. T inverts the tough guy role to hilarious effect. Although Jessica Biel is a somewhat pointless love interest, but whatever that's not the point of the film. And if that's not the point, why bother with the love story? Because that's the convention, which is kind of funny considering the film itself seems like it is trying to break convention. So what is the point of the film? There isn't one.

And this is coming from Joe Carnahan who burst onto the scene with the fantastic Narc. That had such a rich story about the corruption I society has fallen into. But here he is along from the brilliance of that film. A long way.

Outlandish is the game here. And outlandish is what you get. Some of the action sequences are so chaotic, so over the top, it really just feels like a movie version of a video game. And there's the problem with the film and with where hollywood is heading. Everything is geared towards an audience that just don't care what they want to watch, they just don't want to think. Since when was thinking such a bad thing to do.