The Losers 2010

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: If The A-Team is half this much fun, they'll be lucky. Read more

A.O. Scott, At the Movies: It was comic booky enough that I just enjoyed it. Read more

James Rocchi, MSN Movies: "The Losers" is exactly what you would hope for from an action film: a wham-bam-glitz-and-glam good time with two-fisted action and brains to boot ... Read more

Manohla Dargis, New York Times: The manufacturer's date might be relatively recent, but almost all the ideas and moves are definitely older than the likable cast members. Read more

John Anderson, Wall Street Journal: An aptly titled, grossly overdone big-screen adaptation of a DC Comics publication, it is, as though we needed it, another symptom of where we're going cinematically, and a movie that takes bilious joy in its own soullessness. Read more

Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: Proving that ensemble chemistry can make or break a franchise, The Losers redeems itself with comedic camaraderie delivered by a well-chosen batch of rising stars. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: There's nothing wrong with style for its own sake, but The Losers works so strenuously to be cool at every moment that it can only be anything but. Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: The Losers does a perfectly serviceable job of achieving its low ambitions. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Like nearly all action movies, horror films, and thrillers in the last 15 years, a sense of motion is conveyed predominately with editing as opposed to through physical space. The compression of time, distance, and movement into hectic cuts is deadening. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Though rigidly formulaic, the movie is undeniably good-humored. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The film is easier to take than, say, Kick-Ass or V for Vendetta, both of which came to the screen saddled with misguided pretentions. No pretentions here. Read more

Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: Compensates for the mindlessness of its story by filling it with all kinds of clever, playful, stylish flourishes. Read more

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: There is plenty of good-guys-vs.-rotten-apple tension here. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Basically, it's The A-Team meets Rambo meets Mission: Impossible, with a mission that's one part trickiness, four parts blowing stuff up. Read more

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Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: White and director of photography Scott Kevan, who collaborated on Stomp the Yard, have some seriously inventive visuals, which at times are smash-cut fabulous. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: The Losers -- co-written by Peter Berg, who made the similarly loud and out-of-control The Kingdom -- makes a whole lot of noise without making a great deal of sense. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: The Losers is simply a lot of low blows, telegraphed each and every time. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: The movie, based on a comic book, features a couple of actors who deserve better (Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Idris Elba) and some who deserve even worse (like Chris Evans). Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: Staying awake during this ordeal of incompetent, incomprehensible stupidity is not difficult. It's so noisy that you can hear it in the next town. Staying interested is something else entirely. Read more

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: The script is boilerplate, the wit pretty much witless. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The movie gets the job done, and the actors show a lot of confidence in occupying that tricky middle ground between controlled satire and comic overkill. It's fun. Read more

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: As an action fix to hold you before the summer explosions start, you could do worse than The Losers. It's no more than an efficient time-killer. Read more

Gene Seymour, Salon.com: Movies aren't loaded weapons, though sometimes, they do go off when their users aren't careful. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: It's strange what a bad action movie takes seriously and doesn't take seriously. Take, for example, The Losers, in which cliches are sacred and human life of no value. Read more

Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Whether you're betting on action or laughs, this is a lose-lose scenario. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: The Losers at least has speed on its side -- not to mention a bad case of ADD and camera jitters -- but all compliments end there. Read more

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Cath Clarke, Time Out: It isn't half bad: unmemorable but fast and flashy, and less bloated than the kind of action number that keeps John Travolta in Lear jets. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: Though they have plenty of lethal weapons at their disposal, the Losers are nowhere near as fun as the '80s action-flick heroes they emulate. Read more

Peter Debruge, Variety: The Losers is the sort of pyro-heavy exercise parodied in Tropic Thunder, and no amount of production polish can hide the hollowness beneath its junk-food high. Read more

Dan Kois, Village Voice: Director Sylvain White and screenwriters James Vanderbilt and Peter Berg strain to achieve the pleasurable mix of cheap laughs and expensive action that Lethal Weapon pulled off effortlessly with the help of its stellar cast. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: How dumb is it? You might actually kill a few million brain cells just watching it. Some groups may even want to consider inviting a designated driver to sit in the lobby and eat popcorn till it's over. Read more