mcoelenfun

To be perfectly honest what this movie misses most is a game controller. The movie consists of good action scenes great boss battles and over the top weapons and abilities. Why then do I have to sit still and watch instead of actually engaging in the battles?

The plot of this movie is nothing to write home about. You have seen it in one form or another a million times before, often better executed. Would've done nicely for a game though.

The artwork however: sublime. I really doubted in the beginning of the movie whether it was animation or live action (other scenes are less convincing but still). The ruins of New York look like a delight to wander around in and to just explore.

I can honestly say I watched this movie for the art, not the story.

Who hasn't grown up with the original A-Team. Even if you are, like me, born after the air date of the last episode. Reruns are even shown to this day. The popularity of the show in the 80's was sky high.

This movie therefor had pretty big shoes to fill. The movie begins totally uncompromisable when Hannibal and B.A. meet for the first time. For a minute (or more like ten) I was afraid they changed the background story for no apparent reason. Luckily the movie reveals itself to be set before the TV show. The background stays the same with the exception of the war (in which they are convicted for a crime they didn't commit) which has been updated to a more recent war.

The original series had a happy feel to it. The movie is a lot more grimy and shifted towards a more traditional action movie. It essentially takes away what set the A-Team apart from the rest of the action genre. The biggest loss was the "build a tank from duck tape three pieces of wire and a piece of candy scene." I remember sitting in front of the TV and enjoying these contraptions they build the most, not having it in the movie just is wrong in my opinion.

On the plus side this A-Team learned to shoot in those thirtyish years since the original show, it always bothered me that an elite team of soldiers couldn't even hit a car from point blank. In this movie people actually get shot. Yeah.

This movie also is a good action brainless action movie on itself, for me it's just that I'm missing the A-Team vibe of the original.

The trailer of this movie made me want to read the books and I'm glad I read those first. The movie has the overall plot but lacks the details and depth of the books. And damn those are important.

The movie stays right at the surface of the plot and cannot give the viewer the same emotional and cognitive involvement that the books have. I almost cried for some deaths in the book while it didn't even register in the movie.

I also feel that that the film lacks gore and desperation. I am not much of a horror fan or even an action fan but the whole premise of the story is that the games are awful and to bring that across on the screen you need more gore then the bit of blood they show.

I won't say that the movie is awful as so many have done before me. It is good enough, it just doesn't reach the depth of the books. The only reason therefor to watch this movie is because you cannot read the books.