The Losers

This is another leave your brain at in the cinema car park. Based on a comic series by the same name it tells the story of a group of elite soldiers who have been double crossed by a shady CIA character called Max, played by Jason Patric (who I last saw in Speed 2: Cruise Control).

Don't get me wrong I love action movies but this one might as well be the A Team with an added bonus of a Mexican guy. Hannibal... sorry Clay (Jeffery Dean Morgan) is the boss who falls for Zoe Saldana and is their ticket to freedom but whose father was killed by Clay, Classic Romeo and Juliet. The other characters are typical as well you have the geek, the sniper, the second in command and the transport and heavy weapons guy who likes to think of himself as Blagyver (Black MacGyver).

The biggest let down of the whole film besides the plot is the use of a bomb that can destroy landmasses. They didn't use this to its full potential; it was show ripping apart a small island and then not used again which I thought was a shame.
Also shooting people with tranquilisers was a waste of time in the movie, if these guys were so badass why they didn’t just kill them. They did have a perfectly good sniper with them.

Don’t get me wrong it was entertaining in bits like when a nod by Patric’s character Max is misunderstood and a random Indian bomb maker gets thrown off a building instead of just getting punched.

You could also see where this whole plot was going to end up about 15 minutes into the film. Max gets away while his second in command is killed by crashing into the turbine of a private jet. While one of Clays former team mates turns against them because he is tired of being on the run but is also coincidently killed by the same private jet along with 1 Billion dollars.

Verdict: lots of explosion, some humour, and good for an night of light entertainment or if theres is nothing else on to watch

Rating: 5/10

Brij