The A-Team (+ Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] Blu-ray – Digital_copy, May 5, 2015

In Hollywood, when you graduate an 80s TV Show into a major motion picture, comparisons will be made. I did this in another interview that I posted for The Dukes of Hazzard movie, it's inevitable. How faithful were they to the spirit of the show? Did they eliminate the bad and keep the good? In many cases, some TV shows from the 80s had a great premise but were dragged down by the perils of minimal TV budgets, short sighted producers and censorship. When they get 110 million and a competent creation crew behind them, their true colors can really come through. Such is the case with The A-Team.I must say, I'm extremely saddened to hear that the movie didn't do well enough in the theater or even on home video to warrant a sequel. I think the casting of the four actors was brilliant and the story line aspired to the best aspects of the TV show. The A Team is a blast to watch. These four gentlemen have charisma and chemistry beyond belief and they really reflect a brotherhood far beyond the stale and 2 dimensional characters created by their TV counterparts. That's not to say the actors in the show were bad, George Peppard alone gave the show an aire of respectability. Dwight Schultz was always in perfect manic form and Dirk Benedict was most likely born for the role of Face. However, the weekly grind of making a show where automatic weapons are fired and cars jump several feet without hurting anyone becomes monotonous after some time.Liam Neeson is undoubtedly one of the most charismatic actors of our time. No one brings his brand of leadership quality to the screen like he does. So who better to play the cigar chomping Colonial `Hannibal' Smith then him? No one. It's so easy to believe that everyone who meets this man feels like they would help him do anything. That if he asked them to do something, they would do it, no questions asked. Bradley Cooper is a perfect choice as well for Lt. Templeton `Faceman' Peck, the pretty boy, smooth talking `get-anything-if-you-need-it' operator. Sharlto Copley...who is this guy? I'd never heard of him but I have to say, he nailed the role as Murdoch. He brings just the right amount of wackiness mixed with competence to convince us to trust him, despite his `verge-of-insanity' characteristics. Then there's Quinton `Rampage' Jackson playing Bosco `BA' Baracus. Again, another guy I'd never heard of. I'm not familiar with the players in the MMA world but this guy really has something. He played BA with multiple levels of anger and sometimes emotion in just the right places. I was impressed with Quiton and I thought he filled the shoes of Mr. T and then some. The best part is the script allows us to believe these guys are a true working team that plays to each others strengths and helps balance their weaknesses. They're not perfect, but they are smart, competent and with the guidance of their leader, Hannibal, capable of doing almost anything.The movie chooses to focus on how the four came together and their subsequent story that is the premise of the TV show; being convicted of a crime they didn't commit. The movie starts with a series of events that bring the four together and solidifies BA's fear of flying, for anyone who thought it was strange that BA (a former Army Ranger) would have a fear of flying, this explains it very well. It then jumps forward eight years with the four involved in the middle east conflict after running eighty successful missions and ready to be discharged. Of course, this is where it gets dicey. During a last minute mission designed to avoid political upheaval and bloodshed by a security/paramilitary contractor group, things go very bad. The four are arrested and tried under military tribunal, stripped of ranks and sent to separate incarceration facilities. Six months later they escape with the help of a twisted CIA agent (played by Patrick Wilson) and the chase in on to clear their names. Jessica Beil plays the DOD officer assigned to track them down and stop them. Being a former flame of Face, her character goes in full tilt but later starts to lean toward their cause. Both Wilson and Beil play their parts well as a split of their TV counterparts, Col Lynch and Col Decker. Oddly Wilson's character calls himself Lynch when he meets with Hannibal.Joe Carnahan is the director behind this gem and I have to say, after watching Smoking Aces, I wasn't convinced he could pull this off. Not that Smoking Aces is a bad movie, but it had it's unbalances and it overdone characters to the point where it was almost cartoonish. But he most certainly did pull this one off. His direction and attention to character interaction as well putting in just the right amount of humor mixed with the more serious tone of the movie makes for a very entertaining picture. It takes the best aspects of the TV Show and works it all together very well. Sure there are a few `Hollywood' moments but they are easily overlooked in the course of the movie. Again I state that it's a shame a sequel won't be made due to lack of revenue but maybe if enough people read this review and trust my impressions, they'll give it a try. If anything, it's a fun movie and at least worth a look.For Blu Ray fans, the Blu Ray of this movie looks awesome and sounds just as good.

Action, good guys and bad guys. Military type. Excellent entertainment for me.

I enjoyed watching this movie and will be watching it again I like action movies and comedy movies and there's a little bit of bolt in this so it kept me entertained and watching the whole time.

When a group of war veterans are framed for a crime they didn't commit, they are out to clear their names and out for revenge as well! That isn't exactly the show since the A-Team just wanted to clear their names, they never killed anyone. Even when a truck went flying off a cliff in the show the bad guys would get out and just dust themselves off. The movie is a big non-stop action mess, but it's so silly that it's entertaining. What makes it better than a big mess like Transformers 2 though, is that it's great fun if you've seen the show. I mean Transformers 3 might as well be called the Adventures of Sam Witwicky. Here the characters from the show are at least alive again and so are some of their antics that we grew up with and loved. So in another words, the A-Team aren't side characters for a horny teen who's in love with a hot girl in tight clothes. When there's not brainless action, Sharlto Copley does get to have some fun being a nut, playing Howling Mad Murdock. While he has chemistry with Rampage Jackson, who plays B.A. They argue as much as they do in the show, but until Murdock cooks for B.A to calm him down. I don't think anything calmed down B.A in the show, but I found that humorous as well. While Bradley Cooper's Face, is more of a nut than Dirk Benedict's though. Dirk's Face hated to be punched in the face because it was his meal ticket, here Cooper even begs a guy to hit him. Cooper still has moments where his Face gets to flirt with woman though to get what he wants. Hannibal Smith isn't really done justice though. Liam Neeson hams it up as best as he can with big cigars and a sadistic smile, but no one could replace the late great George Peppard. Peppard brought so much energy to the show, that it's hard to believe that he died only 6 or 7 years after it was canceled. I did at least laugh in the film when Hannibal needed a disguise to walk through an airport.... he went as Liam Neeson lol. Well not literally, but he had the usual Liam Neeson look in that scene and in the scene that followed, he was back to Hannibals gray hair. So it's little things like that I found funny. When I heard Patrick Wilson was playing Lynch, I expected the serious Colonel from the show that was always in pursuit of the A-Team. But here, one of the silliest things is that a lot of guys have the name Lynch. So even though Wilson's Lynch is practically Michael Bay and likes blowing stuff up, doesn't mean he's supposed to be the Lynch from the show. But anyway, now that is cleared up, Patrick Wilson is surprisingly a lot of fun and livens up the brainless action scenes with funny one-liners, like "damn, that reminds me of playing Call of Duty".

perfect

Recién recibida la edición del Reino Unido, comprobado que tiene castellano (sin lugar a dudas), ofrece dos montajes uno es el cinematográfico y otro el extendido en ambos está doblado a nuestro idioma. El único "pero" es que en el extendido por extraño que parezca los diálogos del personaje de Fénix (sólo los fragmentos no presentes en el corte cinematográfico)están subtitulados, no doblados. Se trata sin duda del mismo disco comercializado aquí.

Grew up watching this as a series decades ago. Was surprised how well they made it into a movie. Far fetched some scenes but hey so was the series.

Esta versión no incorpora idioma español, sino latino, y si no estás acostumbrado te puede resultar extraño o incluso difícil de seguir. Si os da igual que no sea castellano, la película resulta entretenida.

arrived on time intact for home use