The Losers

[superhero]

When I went to Date Night at Vue West End on Monday, they were also doing preview screenings for the Losers. I was just wondering if anyone was there and saw the film? Any good?

[alythonian]

I saw a trailer for this when I saw the Ghost on Monday. It looked truly awful!

[superhero]

Well then we will probably get some SFF screenings for it then...haha

[a_person]

lol so true

[EthanRunt]

Looking forward to this one, good cast, looks good enough, reviews from America so far are mixed.

[jupe17]

I saw a trailer for this when I saw the Ghost on Monday. It looked truly awful!

+1

[Preston1990]

I cashed in my penultimate Guest Pass this afternoon and saw The Losers at a sparsely populated Metrocentre. It reminded me a little of the TV series “The A Team” that I used to watch more years ago than I care to remember.

The film is a bit more action packed than that TV series and people actually get killed in it (well obviously not really, but you know what I mean). There were some great similarities I thought though – ex-military personnel, each with their own different specialism, all banded together to provide a collective good to overcome evil forces at work.

All in all, it was a reasonably watchable and pleasantish, if a little bland, way of getting through a rainy afternoon. The film casts Zoe Salanda (from Avatar) as Aisha playing a distinctly raunchier role in this film, which is bizarrely enough at the same time much less blue (pun intended – though probably not achieved).

Aisha aside, I thought most of the other characters lacked any real depth and were pretty one dimensional. The film definitely suffered because of this shortcoming.

I give it a 6.5 out of 10.

[EthanRunt]

I saw it yesterday, and loved it.
Nothing groundbreaking or extraordinary, but funny, well shot, lovely looking, and Chris Evans just flat out rules. And for the first time I understand Zoe Saldana's sudden rise from fanboys, gorgeous.

Great way to waste a few hours, guns, bangs, silly dialogue, shame it's been given a bad release.
8/10

[kevinknapman]

Saw this Friday night after a long week, so I was looking for something undemanding and I wasn't disappointed. Sometimes dumb and loud is exactly what you want and The Losers fits the bill perfectly. An enjoyable film with some decent set pieces and a likeable cast make the 97 mins pass by quickly and it never outstays its welcome. It's definitely a better film than I would expect from a director whose previous films include 'Stomp the Yard' and 'I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer'. And yes, Chris Evans is the definite stand out in a pretty good cast and I'm looking forward to seeing what he does in 'Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World'. The scene where he infiltrates a skyscraper to get an all important piece of computer evidence whilst singing along to Journey's 'Don't Stop Believin' was genius. Wasn't quite so sure about Jason Patric's rather dodgy sub-Bond villain. He has a couple of decent moments but also a fair few dodgy quirky comedy moments that undermine his character's evil sadistic nature. I'm still not entirely sure what his world domination plans were, but that vagueness is forgivable when the rest of it is so enjoyable. I also found the film's lack of blood a bit odd. I was wondering if the film was slightly compromised in the studio's desire to get that all important teen audience. I haven't read the original graphic novel but I would expect the violence is bit more explicit. I'm not complaining of course, the film is fine without it, but it just seemed a bit odd. Shame that this film seems destined (on the big screen at least) to be overshadowed by two bigger movies. Released on the same day as SATC 2 and a month before the similarly themed and bigger budgeted film 'The A-Team', it would be a shame if this is overlooked as a result. Although I expect it will find it's home on DVD and Blu-ray. Still if you like big dumb action movies, catch it on the big screen if you can.

[Spuddyboy]

Saw this today at Didsbury.

I was quite disappointed to be honest. The film had a few good parts but overall I didn't rate it. Although my friend really enjoyed it, so go figure.