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The A-Team (2010)

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Average Rating: 5.4/10
Reviews Counted: 200
Fresh: 94 | Rotten: 106

For better and for worse, Joe Carnahan's big-screen version of The A-Team captures the superficial, noisy spirit of the TV series.

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Average Rating: 5.2/10
Critic Reviews: 34
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 20

For better and for worse, Joe Carnahan's big-screen version of The A-Team captures the superficial, noisy spirit of the TV series.

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Average Rating: 3.6/5
User Ratings: 176,886

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Movie Info

Director Joe Carnahan resurrects the popular 1980s-era action series with this explosive reboot following the adventures of four Iraq War veterans who begin a second career as mercenaries for hire. Col. John "Hannibal" Smith (Liam Neeson), Templeton "Face" Peck (Bradley Cooper), B.A. Baracus (Quinton "Rampage" Jackson), and H.M. "Howlin' Mad" Murdock (Sharlto Copley) are a group of former Special Forces operatives who have been fighting the good fight for eight years when they're sentenced to

PG-13, 1 hr. 57 min.

Action & Adventure, Comedy

,

Dec 14, 2010

$77.2M

20th Century Fox

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All Critics (200) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (95) | Rotten (106) | DVD (7)

Had the action sequences been better framed and presented, this might have been one of the summer's mindless high points. As it is, it's a passable diversion.

July 6, 2010 Full Review Source: ReelViews | Comment
ReelViews
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Let's just be thankful that Carnahan, instead of redoing "The A-Team," didn't remake "Gandhi." The Ganges would have run red. Pacifism is for wussies.

June 18, 2010 Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor | Comments (2)
Christian Science Monitor
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I was not charmed by it.

June 14, 2010 Full Review Source: At the Movies | Comments (5)
At the Movies
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The A-Team is utterly convinced of its own lovability even as it strains our credibility, abuses our patience, and punishes our eardrums.

June 11, 2010 Full Review Source: Slate | Comment (1)
Slate
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To the old box-office maxim that trite makes right, a fresh corollary must be attached: Chaos is the new order, and ugly the new beautiful.

June 11, 2010 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment (1)
Globe and Mail
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The A-Team is so busy trying to connect with the audience's hearts, minds and wallets that it never quite connects with itself.

June 11, 2010 Full Review Source: MSN Movies | Comment (1)

The expression 'brainless summer blockbuster' is often used as a pejorative, but energetic and entertaining popcorn like this shows that that isn't necessarily a bad thing.

February 18, 2012 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | Comment
TheMovieReport.com

Mildly amusing is the best I can say for the film.

November 5, 2011 Full Review Source: Star-Democrat (Easton, MD) | Comment
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

The Eighties should sue.

June 30, 2011 Full Review Source: The Ooh Tray | Comment (1)

Joe Carnahan shows how the film's titular bad-ass heroes become rogue fighters, but takes an age to do so. The TV show's opening credits managed the same feat in around 20 seconds.

March 10, 2011 Full Review Source: Movie Talk | Comment

It may well annoy a few of you as much as it occasionally did me, but it will probably also elicit a good few laughs.

February 3, 2011 Full Review Source: What Culture | Comment

I also love it when a plan comes together, but as well-intentioned as this film might be, 'The A-Team' never gels for me. It's so awash in constant action that it takes all the fun of the characters right out of it.

December 23, 2010 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

... the set pieces are a confused mess and the character chemistry too weak to hold together the sloppy script despite good casting.

December 21, 2010 Full Review Source: MSN.com | Comment
MSN.com

The A-Team is a can of soda -- empty calories, full of fizz. But like a good, cold can of soda on a hot summer day, it's curiously refreshing, tasty and it hits the spot.

December 15, 2010 Full Review Source: IGN DVD | Comment
IGN DVD

Can only ride on our nostalgia for too long before the audience decides it's a tiresome and often confusing mess...

November 25, 2010 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | Comment
Cinema Crazed

Carnahan and [co] have harnessed the OTT recklessness and cartoonish mayhem of [the show], pumped it full of steroids and delivered a proudly loud and bombastic rendition that pays tribute to its roots without being distractingly slavish.

October 26, 2010 Full Review Source: The Standard | Comment

The A-Team succeeds in blasting onto the big screen with big attitude.

October 22, 2010 Full Review Source: Moviedex | Comment

Based on its own merits, The A-Team is a sweet little sugar cube of outrageous fun and almost unparalleled silliness. We may not have asked for it, but I'm thankful we've got it.

October 21, 2010 Full Review Source: Quickflix | Comment

Naizgled solidna ljetna zabava prepuna spektakularnih akcijskih scena nepotrebno je zakomplicirana scenarističkim zahvatima

September 12, 2010 Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | Comment
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Even committed action fans may acknowledge the editing is so frenetic that it's often impossible to know what is going on -- or why.

August 4, 2010 Full Review Source: Daily Mail [UK] | Comments (3)
Daily Mail [UK]

That rarest of things, a big-budget actioner that's almost impossible to enjoy.

August 3, 2010 Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK] | Comments (6)
Daily Mirror [UK]

Go and rent the far superior and similarly themed The Losers instead.

August 3, 2010 Full Review Source: Digital Spy | Comment
Digital Spy

Joe Carnahan's movie is loud and vulgar and disorienting, but also an exhilarating kind of fun.

August 3, 2010 Full Review Source: This is London | Comment
This is London
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Audience Reviews for The A-Team

This was a lot of fun. The actors they chose to do the different parts were actually very well casted. The ridiculous over the top fun that was the A-Team was successfully transplanted to the big screen.

June 16, 2010
jmanard52

Super Reviewer

Yet another action movie that flips off the laws of physics then shoots at them from a falling tank. If you rented this hoping for an in-depth, novel and cohesive story, you're going to be one unhappy camper. The point of this movie is the mind-bending assault plots, the rollicking action sequences and the superhumanly

April 25, 2012
MidnightMadwoman

Super Reviewer

    1. Lt. Templeton "Faceman" Peck: This is beyond nuts boss.
    2. Col. John "Hannibal" Smith: It gets better [laughs]
    – Submitted by Sean C (3 months ago)
    1. Gammons: Are they trying to shoot down that other drone?
    2. Carissa Sosa: No... they're trying to fly that tank.
    – Submitted by Nick S (5 months ago)
    1. Col. John "Hannibal" Smith: Technically, we're not flying...
    2. B.A. Baracus: I know, 'cause we FALLING, fool!
    – Submitted by George B (5 months ago)
    1. "Howling Mad" Murdock: I'm a real soldier, I'm a Ranger baby!
    2. Lt. Templeton "Faceman" Peck: I'm worried!
    – Submitted by Zaza E (6 months ago)
    1. Lt. Templeton "Faceman" Peck: Murdock, what did I tell you? You have to...
    2. Col. John "Hannibal" Smith: You have to... *Catch* him, *after* you inject him.
    3. "Howling Mad" Murdock: My bad.
    – Submitted by Hanna K (10 months ago)

Latest News for The A-Team

January 11, 2012:
Joe Carnahan Describes the Opening of His Scrapped A-Team Sequel
What might have been for "A-Team" fans.

January 6, 2011:
Carnahan's The Grey Sees Green Light
Joe Carnahan will reunite with his "A-Team" star Liam Neeson for the decidedly lower-budget "The...

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