The A-team - 2010

This is like a prequel to the old series. I like it, they made the characters pretty good. I like the A-team, because I liked very much the characters. In the series, my favourites were 1Hannibal 2Murdock 2Baracus 4 Face; in this new movie my favs are 1 Hannibal 2 Baracus 3Face 4Murdock, which is the only one that didn't quite compare. It tells the story of how they met and how they became the team for hire that we met in the series. It starts with Hannibal Smith (Liam Neeson) being beaten by two thugs, but they don't shoot him, they left him to be killed by voracious dogs: so Hannibal frees himself, does not kill the dogs, and goes away to save his friend "Face" Peck (Bradlye Cooper) who is in a very bad situation, but keeps on laughing because he probably is so sure that Hannibal will come :-) Hannibal needs transportation, so he stops the first vehicle he sees: "bad attitude" Baracus (Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson) was in the Rangers too, so they bond right away, and go together to save Face. Already at this point there were a few things that made me laugh or smile: the thugs telling Hannibal to 'have a plan next time' :lol:  and the fact that for Baracus the most important thing, his 'love', was his vehicle, the same black van they had in the series. :-)
They need to go to the hospital and Face mistakes Murdock (Sharlto Copley) for a doctor, and he stitches Baracus arm in a bolt shape, and sets Face's arm on fire, then Hannibal takes him into the team because he need a pilot. Of course Murdock was there as a patient, because he's kind of crazy. With Murdock flying the helicopter, they complete the mission, so we can have our "I love it when a plan comes together" line and also it explains to us why it is that Baracus will never again want to fly with him :lol: From now on they will always have to trick him or drug him to get him on a plane with Murdock :lol:
We move '8 years later, 80 missions successfully completed', where we meet Sosa (Jessica Biel), Face's ex girlfriend and also CIA Lynch (Patrick Wilson). The team goes to Baghdad for a secret, important mission, so they start 'finding the things they need', and 'building their stuff' as they always do. The mission seems perfectly completed, but at the end General Morrison dies and the US treasury plates are stolen. They are thought to be behind it, so on trial they are sentenced to prison with dishonourable discharge. Six months later Lynch goes to jail to meet Hannibal, because he wants him to get the plates back for him, so helps him escape by giving him what he asks for, a drug that will simulate death by heart attack. He wakes up when he's about to be cremated, and sets off to free Face and then Baracus, who has found peace and has made a vow never to kill again. Then they go to Germany to free Murdock from the mental hospital, and it was lovely. He was watching a 3D movie with the other patients, and we could hear the old A-team theme, and also clearly read the name Reginald Barclay which was adorable, because Reg was the Star Trek character played by Dwight Schultz, who also played the original Murdock :-D I almost screamed when I saw it. :-D
Then a mad escape plan starts, and it's so excessive and hilarious it can only be A-team style. They take a plane, but it is hit, so they put three parachutes on the tank that was inside and when the chutes are hit too they fire the cannon to move in the air and then to loose speed when they are precipitating (is this the right word? I hope so). I don't know if it was more fun the lot of mental patients going hooray or this old German woman laughing.. :lol:  They are on a personal mission to recover the plates and rehabilitate their names, but it turns out that Morrison (Gerald McRaney) had faked his death because it was him who stole the plates. Him and Pike (Brian Bloom) and Lynch were on it together, but when they stole the plates they left Lynch out and now he's so pissed off and wants them for himself. Lynch kills Morrison, the team tricks him into confessing everything while outside people are listening, but for them nothing changes. They should go back to prison, Lynch is taken by Cia, and there's nothing that Sosa can do aside kissing Face after he's being handcuffed. With that kiss, she passed him the key of the cuffs, so they can escape again, and become the team for hire we knew. Face was a perfect Face, Bosco too because actually Baracus had always been the good one, the softest guy of the team :-) Murdock... sorry, I don't like him, can't quite say why but I couldn't warm to him. Finally Hannibal... he was a good enough Hannibal, he was a good man and a good soldier... he wasn't mad though :lol: I mean in the old series, the real madman was never Murdock, was always Hannibal :lol:  yes, I admit his plans are mad enough after all, maybe is just the smile that's not mad enough , I don't know, but it's not a problem, mind you, I'm not criticizing, I liked this Hannibal very much!!
I'm just being nostalgic about George Peppard's Hannibal and his various transformations...