The A-Team: Boom Bang a Bang, You crazy FOOL!!!!!!!!

You know, I’ve got to confess, me and the movie night gang have had something of a night out, tonight.

Which is a bit of a rarity, as Kevin D, Movie Night Adrian, Squeaky and I, usually don’t all have money at the same time, in order to head for Romford, to catch a movie.

Which was actually quite something, for a start.

But one thing Kevin had been raving about, was the film we all went to see, tonight.

And I can’t, for the life of me see why some critics call it ‘over the top’.

After all, it WAS The A-Team we went to see.

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29/8/2010

And I’ve got to admit, I think we actually managed to see a film, last night, that Movie Night Adrian actually was impressed enough to say “That was a good film”!

Bless him, he’s got a bit of a dicky knee, at the moment, after having a cartilege operation.

So the fact we all spent a little cash to go to Romford to see it … ?

Was very well worth it.

The A-Team — the Joe Carnahan directed remake of the 1980s TV series — sees Liam Neeson as Hannibal Smith, Bradley Cooper (The Hangover) as Face Peck, UFC fighter, Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson as BA and Sharlto Copley — formerly of District 9 — playing the eponymous group of Special Forces soldiers, framed for ‘a crime they didn’t commit’.

Which, if you remember the TV series, was something we never actually see. And something the film attempts to address.

The plot follows the team from their initial meeting in Mexico, many years ago, to their joint service in the Iraq War.

And being set up, after being sent on a mission to recover some stolen printing plates.

Printing plates that would enable who-ever has them to forge millions of dollars-worth of dodgy notes.

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Now, I’ll happily admit that others have done a plot summary that’s better written.

But this is one film that I’m going to tell you to see.

I don’t know how many fans of the original series have caught it.

But I do know that I was very impressed with it.

The A-Team is an over the top romp of a Big Boys film: one that is beautifully crafted and put together, nicely acted — although I know Adrian wasn’t totally convinced by Liam Neeson as Hannibal, I also know I was impressed by all of the cast, Rampage Jackson in particular — and moves along at an impressive, non-stop rate of knots!

So I’ll leave you with this suggestion.

Go see The A-Team.

You won’t be seeing an emotionally meaningful art-house movie that questions the relationship between men and women, and offers perspective on their mutual place in the universe.

No.

You’ll be seeing a film that’s FUN!!

If you don’t … ? I can but paraphrase Bosco Albert “B.A.” Baracus: “You CRAZY, fool!!!!!!!!!”

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