MOVIE REVIEW - The Losers

Let's take a look at the weekends big action flick, The Losers.

Picture this. What do you get when you mix part comic book, part action flick, part music video, part video game, and young men blowing things up all over the country, plus a hot woman who wears very little clothing while shooting bazookas? Sound like a mess? It is.

The Losers is based on a comic book. The premise is basically the same as the 1980's TV show, The A-Team. But the trouble here is that it's NOT The A-Team. We've all been there and done this. The Losers are a specially grained group of miss-fit military guys, who are betrayed by the CIA and left for dead in South America. The Losers then go on a rampage to get revenge on the CIA and return to their lives in the United States. They are fugitives of course, and need help.

These five guys then meet up with a very hot young martial arts trained, military young woman who has her own agenda, and hires The Losers to do a job for her, with the assurance she has the power to get their lives back. But there are snags along the way, and of course she has to "fall" for one of the guys. That's The Losers.

First, this movie is made for a very small target audience - boys from 15 - 19 or so. The attempted story will make very little difference, and what most will focus on is the constant blowing things up, violence, one action sequence after another. Shoot this, blow this up, let's blow up entire city blocks of major cities and no one notices. Plus there's a gun fight or two with the hot girl brandishing heavy weapons in her underwear, gotta have that scene in there.

And it's very video-gamey in the fact that there are absolutely no ramifications (or anything) for any actions anywhere. And as The Losers go through life happily destroying everything in sight, all while waging war on the CIA, there seem to be few CIA people who know of it, or are involved with it. No one minds a fun story, but this is so far out there in "give me a break land" that it's really, quite frankly stupid.

Toss in a villain that's horribly cast, plus a bunch of really terrible dialogue, and tons of cheesy, campy, slow motion "aren't we cool sequences" and you've got one real dog here. These kind of movies tough generally find an audience and usually do pretty well at the box office. There is nothing wrong with making movies targeted at a slim slice of the pie. But this is not going to be entertaining to a whole lot of movie goers.

The Losers.....for some, it's a dream come true....for others? See what's showing in the theater next door.