The A-Team: There Is No Plan B

Finally! A fresh new director in Hollywood: Joe Carnahan. Other than the little-acclaimed Smokin' Aces, this is truly a director with no sizable track record directing a movie that has what it takes to compete in the box office. In fact, compared to the average action-flick, I enjoyed A-Team quite a bit. Why? It was funny, action packed, well characterized, and all-in-all, entertaining. Sure, it might not have had the story value of Dark Knight, or the graphics of Transformers, but this was a genuine action movie. huzzah for Carnahan.

I have very few complaints about this movie, actually. The story was poor and the dialogue was strained at times, but it had some interesting twists and funny lines... enough of them to make me forgive Carnahan completely.

One of my complaints? Liam Neeson. in 2008's wonderful french film Taken, he was looking just a little to old to play the action-type, but he was supposed to be a late-middle-aged father, so I overlooked it. by 2010, he looks very much too old. Sorry, Neeson, everybody has his day. yours ended years ago.

I was, however, very happy with Quinton "Rampage" Jackson. While it's getting more and more common for professional wrestlers to try to enter the film industry, it's getting more and more rare to find one that's actually a decent actor. While Jackson might not be any Morgan Freeman, he's certainly promising, and I hope to see him in future rolls. perhaps an A-Team sequel? You can count on it.

Action movies have a bad rep as being empty and pointless. while this is usually true, sometimes there's a movie that's just good and outrageous enough to be forgiven. A-Team is one of those movies. Maybe it's a little too over-the-top, but fortunately for us, "overkill is underrated."