[Movie Review] The Losers.

With the recent trend of comic book to movie adaptations, one has learned not to expect much out of such offerings, as they are generally all vapid explosion fests punctuated with quirky one liners .
The Losers fit the bill perfectly.

You start off with a fairly generic revenge-thriller narrative, centered around a group of specialized bad-ass black ops agents, pitted against an eccentric, somewhat disfigured, snappy dressing bad guy. Sound familiar? It should.

There are only about ten thousand more movies with this same basic setup. I mean, G-Force pretty much falls into this category. Inorite?

Despite the fairly predictable plot and occasional logical loopholes, The Losers prove to be pretty damn entertaining. Featuring a list of previously obscure actors, who deliver surprisingly good performances, Sylvain White's directing, and adequate funding in the "blow stuff up" department, The Losers deliver us a good popcorn flick.

Speaking of actors and performances, Cougar (Oscar Jaenada) and Jensen (Chris Evans) pretty much held together the film's "cool" factor by themselves, with Cougar just being the badass mexican-dude-who-shoots-things-and-has-a-f******-cowboy-hat and Jensen being, well, Jensen. That is, an oddly neurotic hacker with the most awesome random t-shirts I've seen in a long time.

On the topic of clothing, Jensen seems to be the only one of the team that regularly changes his threads, with their leader Clay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) wearing the same goddamn suit for about two consecutive weeks. Despite this, he gets to sleep with Aisha (Zoe Saldana). Where is the justice?

Even though the film is a sequence of action scenes and lackluster exposition, the writers still manage to add one breakaway act with Jensen wittily infiltrating an office building to Journey's "Don't stop believing". I mean, that is just plain awesomesauce.

However, they did lose some street cred by making the inevitability of a sequel so blatant. They didn't even try to hang something off a cliff. Everyone, down to the characters knows there's gonna be a sequel. The villain, Max (Jason Patric), tells us so.

Pros: Well choreographed action scenes; Good performances by the actors; Jensen and Cougar.

Cons: Logical loopholes; Max was just f****** annoying; Generic Plot.

Consensus: 6.5/10 quirky t-shirts. The Losers is definitely worth watching on the big screen, but it's nothing to write home about. It will probably be surpassed by the upcoming A-Team and Expendables and fade into obscurity. I'll try to download a dvdrip just for Jensen's randomness.

Don't stop believing! *raises lighter*

P.S. - I wish to purchase a "Go Petunias" pink t-shirt. Srsly.

-Niron Khan