The A-Team (2010)

This is a very worthy adaptation of the old TV series of the same name. Didn't see the TV series, no worries. You can still enjoy the movie - character set up is excellent. I love it when a movie starts telling the story before they run the opening credits.

While the story shows scenes from all over the planet, scenes with actors were shot almost exclusively in Canada. Liam Neeson, plays the leader of an Alpha-team of misfits. Despite being a non-smoker, he appears to love the Colonel's signature cigar. Bradley Cooper plays the charming schemer and Quinton "Rampage" Jackson (yes, of UFC, MMF, and WWF fame) reprises the role made famous by Mr. T.. Jessica Beal is delightful as the Capt. Sosa trying to catch them all.

The biggest surprise is the performance by Sharlto Copley. His "functional lunatic" character is comic glue that keeps this movie from taking itself too seriously. I enjoyed his role here much more than his District 9 character.

Although this is another in a long line of movies where you may have trouble figuring out who the bad guys really are, rest assured, you will know in the end. No spoilers here.

Watch this fun action comedy with someone who won't get hung up on the differences or similarities between this movie and the TV series.

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Little bit action thriller. Little bit romantic comedy. Little bit sci-fi. Little bit present day Minority Report. That said, it is a fun movie to watch with all the thriller cliches. Tough-as-nails FBI agents, Russians with a stolen atomic bomb, freight dock shoot-out, and a man-hunt in the belly of a cargo ship.

In the middle of it all is Nicolas Cage as the uber cool Vegas magician with Jessica Biel as his dream girl, both figuratively and literally. Julianne Moore plays the dedicated if not obsessed FBI Special Agent chasing after Cage.

While this is not the tightest of scripts or plot lines, it can be fun to watch if you do put too much thought into it. For instance, there are no trails where you can walk to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and back on the same day - inside the park or on any of the reservations. But suspend belief for that part of its a fun set of scenes.

Watch this one with someone who won't be bothered by fact that you are never sure when you are seeing what really happens or what Cage sees as a vision of what happens - Next.