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Title: The Losers

Date Viewed: 4/25/10

Details:

Jeffrey Dean Morgan (the leader)

Zoe Saldana (the chick)

Chris Evans

Idris Elba

Columbus Short

Oscar Jaenada

Jason Patric (the villain)

Director: Sylvain White

Score: -1/2

The Review: Yes, it does and they do -- the title is appropriate.

Cut from the same cloth asThe A-Team(yet another summer release) and any other military-themed "we've been framed and wrongly accused" plot. This time it's somewhere in South America, they're in the CIA, there are drug connections, the whole crew is assumed to be dead -- but then they link up with a mysterious (and hot) female agent (Saldana) while trying to both get back their reputations and get payback (a.k.a., revenge).

The plot is pedestrian, the twists minimal and well-telegraphed, the villain suitably smarmy and annoying, and the SFX occasionally exciting. But on the whole there's little to make this worth your while, unless you're in the mood for a high-intensity shoot-'em-up flick -- in which case, be my guest. Writing this review several months after viewing, I had a hard time reassembling the circumstances of why I originally gave it such a neutral rating, and downrated it.

(1-Aug-10)

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