Reviews

This movie reminds me of the old style spy thriller capers you see on one of the retro channels on TV; lots of fast moving action, snappy dialogue and a plot that doesn't take itself too seriously.

Jason Statham can certainly carry a movie on his own as it's lead, and the supporting cast, including an amusingly snarky Aubrey Plaza, works. It took me a moment to see through the crinkly old-man make up to recognize Hugh Grant as a quirky and creepy billionaire, but he handles it with aplomb and brings it home.

Lots of action, a interesting soundtrack and some fantastic, bucket-list travel locations make this movie a fun ride for anyone looking for something to watch and enjoy without any pretentiousness or highbrow expectations.

Great show, great cast. I'm happy to see Mariska Hargitay stick it out and stay with this series and become it's anchor. The stories still "borrow" from the headlines quite often but the writing and acting still manage to keep the viewer engrossed, time and time again.

There's been some cast turnover through the years but despite the loss of the excellent Christopher Meloni, I've really come to like the new additions brought it, particularly Kelli Giddish as the transplant cop with a few skeletons in her closet. I'm sorry that Dick Wolf productions killed all of the other L&O franchise series but if one had to stay, this one's the best. A minor quibble though....I wish that the network wouldn't show 2 or 3 episodes and then revert to reruns so often before fresh stuff comes back on. What's up with that? It's also kind of funny to note that the writers (or D. Wolf himself) seem to dislike the name Kevin for some reason because, whenever a character has that name, he's either guilty as anything of the crime in question or a low life in general.The pattern of that specific name makes me wonder if a kid named Kevin gave Dick Wolf hell growing up and is this Wolf's (amusing) revenge, turning him into the dirt bag Dujour. Sorry for the ramble here....love the show and I hope it keeps going for years to come.

The History Channel has taken it upon itself to create some good entertainment based on historical circumstances with the Sons Of Liberty miniseries. Though there are some areas in this series where Hollywood takes creative license to make this historical event flashier than it read in the books, taken for what it is, the show was interesting and managed to keep a good portion of the factual stuff. I read some complaints about the casting for the character of Samuel Adams, due to the fact that Ben Barnes is not as doughy as some of the portraits of the original Adams was but Barnes does a great job in his portrayal of the intense Boston rebel. Rafe Spall is also well cast as the mercenary John Hancock who reluctantly joins the growing rebellion after his financial situation takes a hit. He manages to play smarmy and sympathetic all at once, which is tricky. Good action scenes (The History Channel excels at those) and again, some creative liberties are taken with the story line but overall, an interesting series that touches on an important part of the birth of the United States in a turbulent time.

I didn't catch this show when it first aired but some time later, I took a shot at watching a few episodes on my cable company's "catch up" for TV shows and I'm glad I did because this show is funny.

The premise of "fish out of water" has been used on TV many times before but the writers switched it up a bit by having a lone human family move into a New Jersey neighborhood populated entirely by weird aliens who dress alike and have monikers named after famous sports stars, such as Larry Bird or Reggie Jackson.

Though the alien family (the Bird-Kersees) are admittedly strange and take quirkiness to whole new level (because they truly don't have a clue about how things work here on Earth and they truly don't care), the human Weavers are also wonderfully flawed and a bit neurotic as well.

Though everyone in the cast is great, the one of standouts for me is Simon Templeman's Larry Bird, an intelligent, well-meaning but semi narcissistic jack-ass who presides over the alien sub-community as the de facto leader but he remains clueless when it comes to matters with his own family. Templeman plays with him the right amount of sardonic wit and snide but keeps the character likable nonetheless.

Toks Olagundoye charms as his patient wife Jackie Joyner-Kersee and while Jami Gertz is an excellent foil as Debbie Weaver, who provides the yin to Jackie's yang when they're getting into some sort of mess each week.

As for Clara Mamet, her character Amber Weaver wouldn't be nearly as funny without Mamet's brilliant deadpan delivery of her lines and her priceless expressions when she stands back and observes all the loony tunes around her. That girl should be going places in Hollywood (like her equally talented sister Zosia has done on "Girls").

So, while this show isn't terribly deep or trying to be too cool for school, it is funny and I hope ABC gives it another season or three. Check it out, preferably from the beginning, and watch a couple of episodes after that to get the hang of things. It's different, in a good way.

Copper came out of the gate a bit slowly, and that turned out to be a good thing. It's written to give a good, solid character development that really comes in handy as the show progresses and avoids the usual 2 dimensional "good guy/bad guy" stuff where so many characters usually become boring in similar types of drama.

Tom Weston-Jones is solid as Irish American copper Kevin "Corky" Corcoran and he's completely believable as a 19th century law officer in the Five Points area of New York City trying to do the job as honorably as he can, as well as locate his missing wife and find the murderer of his young daughter, amongst other things. An added bit of gritty reality finds that he's human and sometimes finds himself tempted by stuff (and occasionally partakes in certain acts) that most viewers today know are pretty much illegal or at least borderline not lawful. That's what makes this series so good is that it plays on a part of 19th century history that was pretty messed up due to the tumult caused by the civil war, but not touched on too often in television, anyway, from the gritty appearances of the cast and the scenery, to the questionable law practices. That's what makes this show a standout.

BBC America has got a winner in this one and it just keeps getting better as the storyline is fleshed out a little more with each episode. I can see why Barry Levinson is not afraid to attach his moniker to this show as an executive producer. It's that good.

I've tuned into this show since it's inception and I'm glad I did because it's one of the few shows on network TV that isn't following the usual cookie-cutter plots and story lines that so many of the other indistinguishable hospital-based/dysfunctional-family-driven/crime-of-the-week stuff that's out there. Not that any show dealing with those topics is bad, it's just getting tired and unoriginal. That's why Pan Am was such a breath of fresh air when it aired.

Unfortunately, sometimes the plots felt like they were thrown together last minute to give each character their moment in the spotlight instead of concentrating on building the back stories of the flight crew through more group situations. The cast is great but while I found myself engrossed in some of the sub story lines (like Maggie's growing involvement in ethically questionable stuff or Laura's figurative jailbreak from a previously boring life with a new taste for adventure as a flight attendant and novice photographer, for instance), others kind of bored me. Kellie Garner's role as Kate and her adventures as a CIA courier/soon to be spy in training were just too forced and silly. When I DVR'ed the show, I'd fast forward through those particular parts because they just didn't mesh well. No offense to Ms. Garner, who is a top notch actress, but the part of the CIA trainee would've been more believable to me if any one of the other women in the cast played the role. Maybe it's because Ms. Garner looks too sweet and seems uncomfortable playing that part. I don't know. On a better note, the romantic entanglements are pretty cool and I'm loving the match ups. Mike Vogel's pretty boy Dean is an unlikely yet perfect match for the cool and mysterious Collette (Karine Vannasse), and the nice slow burn romance that's building between naive Laura (Margot Robbie) and hotshot pilot Ted (Michael Mosely) is charming. It would be cool to see Maggie and Kate get some constant companionship too. Finally, it would be nice to have a little more of the travel scene stuff because, hell, they're an airline crew and they go to some great places. Start to show some more of the places and sites and less of the inside of the terminal or their apartments so much. I hope this show makes it because it's good and, despite some disjointed stuff that seems to happen in many of the episodes, I still like it. Maybe ABC will take a chance and renew it and give it a better slot. Here's hoping.

Some movies made explicitly for children can really wear on an adult's nerves, either being too saccharine or trying to be too cool for school to appeal to those kids who think that they are, yes, too cool for school. Puss In Boots is neither of those. Instead, it's a charming little tale about the adventures of the swashbuckling feline Lothario before he met Shrek and Donkey and the rest of gang. There are a couple of gags inserted into the movie that are strictly for the grownups who've made the trek to the theater with their little ones, but overall, it moves at a quick enough pace so that the small fry won't get bored. Antonio Banderas gets to show his comedic talents as the voice of Puss, while Salma Hayek is perfect as his occasional foil/love interest Kitty Softpaws. Puss and Kitty re-unite with Puss's old chum, Humpty Dumpty (Zach Galifianakis) to retrieve Jack's mythical beans to grow that giant beanstalk of myth to find the goose that lays the golden eggs. The jokes are silly but there are more than a few memorable funny scenes, like the one involving a dance-off of sorts that's both comical and wonderfully ridiculous, for instance. It must also be noted that using the voices of Billy Bob Thornton and Amy Sedaris as the film's lead villains, Jack and Jill, was brilliant casting. Their two characters, ugly as sin, really chew the scenery and have some of the funnier lines of dialog in this flick. With all the movies coming out in droves this time of year that seem to be geared toward an older audience, it's kind of nice that this kid-friendly film is in the pack to offer families something lightweight and amusing to see. Little kids will most likely enjoy this one. Check it out.

I was pretty stoked to see this series when BBC-A was going to broadcast it, and the first episode started with a lot of promise (not to mention Jamie Bamber's one episode turn playing against type as a hardened soldier with issues). So far, not bad. But then the episodes that followed got mired down in the muck. It's almost as if the writers aspired to create a gritty, "Battlestar Galactica" type sci-fi that's character driven against a backdrop of an alien world but that's where the comparison ends. The character development was all over the place, with some of them getting developed into three dimensional people as the series went on while others were given some quick, afterthought type back story just to fill the holes. Liam Cunningham does a great job as Tate, the beleaguered leader of Forthaven, as does Hermione Norris as his right hand, Stella, who tries to be the voice of reason in an often inhospitable planet (Carpathia). What's wrong with this (in my opinion), is the too slow lack of story about the "outsiders" (the ACs) and the historical items that are found by accident that could lead to a good story development on it's own if it was allowed to flourish and build. Instead, we get a bunch of weepy stories from the less than interesting denizens of Forthaven, doing lawless things and then freaking out when they get busted by the XPs, which seems to happen in every episode. It's like Law and Order in space without characters that you care very much about. The biggest problem that I had was the casting of Eric Mabius as the "heavy" Julius. Mabius is a good actor but he's better suited to playing good guys than he is to playing villains. A better bit of casting for the role of the coldly calculating Julius would have been "BSG's" James Callis or Rufus Sewell. All in all, this wasn't the worst series on the tube but it kept getting less interesting to me with every passing episode because they chose to ignore the potentially promising story lines of what lay outside the gates of that hillbilly town Forthaven in that new and unexplored alien world and chose to focus on what was happening inside the gates. 5 out of 10 for good acting by a few of the actors but the series itself just kind of tanks plot wise.

I suspected this movie might be entertaining (it was) but I was pleasantly surprised by the depth of the plot, which as the title suggests, begins the very origins of the jump in evolution of the simian breeds. James Franco continues to amaze me with his broad range as and actor because my most recent memory of him is as a completely baked pothead in the somewhat funny film "Pineapple Express". Here he does the part of the sympathetic scientist trying to find a cure for Alzheimer's (which drives his research for personal reasons) with more than a fair amount of compassion and complete earnestness in the role. Nice to see Freida Pinto expanding her talents beyond her breakout part in "Slumdog Millionaire" as a veterinarian and as Franco's love interest. The sharp cast includes the amazing John Lithgow as Franco's character's dad, Tom Felton (proving he has one hell of good career ahead of him playing dark parts), "Stargate: Atlantis" vet David Hewlett in a well done and convincing turn in a lesser but important role as a boorish neighbor, and "MI:5" (Brit TV show "Spooks") David Oyelowo in an exceptionally good piece of acting as a cold and calculating corporate type. Excellent cast here but my main praise is for Andy Serkis who "played" Caesar the ape (or mimed it for CGI or whatever). Serkis was brilliant and managed to convey a whole range of thoughts and emotions without dialog and that's one hell of a huge achievement in and of itself. If he's not at least considered for or nominated for a supporting actor Oscar next year, then the Academy needs to see this film a couple more times and watch his work. So, in a nutshell: good thriller film, engaging storyline, excellent cast. Worth your hard earned cash to see in the cinemas.

"Falling Skies" is one of those shows that starts out slowly, building up the characters first before the storyline progresses and all hell breaks loose. I'm glad I stuck it out for more than two episodes because I've really gotten into this tale of society six months AFTER the alien invasion has happened. I read a couple of the other reviews and I'm perplexed by the "religious" context some folks are getting out of this series because I just don't see it. There's only one character (Lourdes, well played by Seychelle Gabriel) who makes mention of her faith as a means to survive the horror of the invasion and I believe they may say a prayer at dinner but that's it. The so called religious angle just isn't there. What is there is a kind of subtle but well done reference to the American Revolution, as this show is supposed to take place in Boston. These survivors are likened to the colonial militia or the Minutemen, especially when they raid ammo stores or fight the encroaching aliens while being seriously out numbered. I've got to say Will Patton is excellent as the seemingly hard edged militia captain while Noah Wyle is equally great as the history teacher who keeps Patton's captain from going too hard-core crazy while leading the mixed band of military and civilian survivors to safety. A third shout out to Moon Bloodgood, wonderfully cast as a veterinarian who now must act as field surgeon to this tired and worn out group though she struggles with doubts about her abilities on a daily basis. This show is well cast, well written and definitely a must see if you like your sci-fi with an actual story to it instead of shows where plot line and story are nullified in favor of crap being blown up via special effects every 5 minutes. Give it a chance and watch a few episodes before making your final determination.

There's not a lot to say about this travesty of a film. I get the fact that it's for kids but even my nephew got bored with this mess of a movie. It definitely wasted the excellent talent of Hank Azaria while the overly saccharine story is just plain bad. The casting of Katy Perry as Smurfette might be inspired as she sort of already inhabits that whole "Candyland" place in all of her videos so this isn't much of a stretch and she does have a great voice with some range to it. Everything else though is way too trite and tries too hard to be cute. I'm thunderstruck by the amount of money that this film made on opening weekend and can't help but wonder if other adults out there were held hostage by their kids/nieces/nephews like I was into seeing this crapola. What a waste of celluloid. There are tons of much better films for kids out there so don't waste your hard earned cash on this one, unless you have a good gag reflex.

I didn't go to this movie expecting something terribly deep, just something entertaining. It was okay, but not much more. The good: Gwyneth Paltrow, an actress with good range, proved that she could carry a tune and she did just that with her vocal styling on the title song. I also liked the casting of Tim McGraw as her ambitious husband who's trying to support his comeback wife while promoting the new talent of a flaky but equally ambitious beauty queen with dreams of becoming a star. The other good stuff would be the nice selection of country tunes from greats like Patsy Cline, Alabama, etc., making the soundtrack something worthy of checking out. The bad? The storyline and plot aren't deep at all and despite that, it still wanders all over the place. Garrett Hedlund as the up and coming country singing beefcake that Gwyneth's Kelly is lusting after is kind of two-dimensional while Leighton Meester is woefully miscast as the beauty queen that McGraw's character is trying to help. Her singing is so-so and reedy sounding (which may be fine on those over-dubbed dance tunes she warbles on) and her acting skill in this part is just plain bad. She's a TV actress on some teeny bopper show and maybe she's fine there but I think there are so many other young actresses they could have gone with here that would've done this role some justice. All in all, this film would be a fair showing on the CMT channel or even one of those Lifetime movies, but to pay big bucks to see it at a theatre? Nope. Wait until it comes to cable and enjoy the decent soundtrack at the very least.

I liked this show from the first episode that aired, and it's only gotten better as the storyline expands the main characters are continuously getting fleshed out. The tale of a group of non-aging mysterious people with an even more mysterious agenda who are held at an internment camp in the Alaskan wilderness under orders of the President of the United States (ably played by Blair Underwood) is engrossing. You sympathize with the detainees on the one hand but you find some of their actions throughout the story that unfolds in each episode shocking (and not in a good way either). I think Laura Innes does a bang up job as the head detainee, Sophia, playing the part with an understated cool that's both placating and menacing at the same time. Multiple mini stories are happening within each episode that all play into the main tale the show is telling with a good cross section of characters (Zjelko Ivanek as the prez's cool and collected aid and Jason Ritter's dude-who's-in-the-wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time character Sean who's just trying survive a situation that gets weirder and more dangerous with each passing moment) are a couple of examples. It's rare for a main network like NBC take a chance on a science fiction based show but I'm glad they did. It's not the usual cookie-cutter reality drivel or yawn-worthy dramas that the rest peddle so here's hoping NBC is aware of the good thing it's got here and re-news this good show for a second season and more.

Cartoons are for kids. Or are they? Archer definitely falls into the latter and that's a good thing. This is a half hour animated series with a lot of sexual innuendo and a touch of violence here and there about a super-spy with the suave looks of James Bond and the air-headed lack of deductive reasoning of "The Pink Panther's" Inspector Clouseau. What makes the Sterling Archer character so funny is the fact that he really believes he's a lot smarter than he actually is. He's a clueless wonder in a black turtleneck. While the other main characters are great (sexy spy/former love interest Lana, steel hearted mother/head of Isis Malory, numbers-man/nerd extraordinaire Cyril), it's the secondary characters in this show that make me laugh out loud, particularly "any way the wind blows" ball buster Pam and the hilariously demented head scientist, Krieger. What makes this show truly amusing is clever writing, excellent graphics, and wonderful voice work. Every new episode is funny and I hope FX will keep re-newing this animated comedy for years to come.

Here's a movie that didn't waste too much time with slogging through a lot of unnecessary character development. You get some basic back stories on a few of the main characters but it doesn't take long before things go quickly to hell for the greater Los Angeles area. That's what makes this a fairly decent popcorn-on-a-Saturday-night actioner. Aaron Eckhart does a solid job as a weary marine Staff Sargeant who just wants to quietly retire from the Corps after living through some dark days in his previous assignment. The Marine Corps, however, know a good leader when they see one and are reticent to let him go. Good support from Ramon Rodriguez as a green lieutenant and from a nicely low key Michelle Rodriguez as an Air Force tech sergeant who joins the gutsy jar-heads in their mission to help some wayward civilians. I liked this movie because it had no pretenses; the invaders were ruthless and nasty and the military folks were the brave heroes. Kind of like those old fashioned films that weren't too complex, only non-stop action and you knew which side to root for. My only complaint was the camera work. Whomever did the filming jerked it around so much it made me feel kind of dizzy at moments. It's like they handed the camera to a spastic 8 year old pumped up on copious amounts of sugar and Red Bull who couldn't sit still. Other than that, liked this movie and it's storyline a lot. Worth the cash to see.

Adam Sandler movies are hit or miss; they're either pretty damn funny or they're not very funny at all (saving for his attempts to do some serious stuff here and there). This one kind of fell flat. Sandler is a doc who gets cruelly dumped on his wedding day by his superficial bride to be and decides the only way to heal his broken heart is to become a superficial jackass himself, by bedding women who are much too young and pretty to ever really give a guy like that a second look, much less time in the sack. You're supposed to sympathize with him because he WAS treated unfairly by the gal he was about to marry but you just can't. He's too snarky and self serving so it's hard to actually root for him. He hatches a plan to use his assistant, played by Jennifer Aniston, to bag a young supermodel chick (Brooklyn Decker) who's so far out of his league it's laughable. Unfortunately, Aniston is back on screen again portraying the exact same "hey, look at me! I'm a cool, laid back chick with a breezy attitude towards life so you should just love me" Rachel-type character that she's played in just about every movie she's ever been in (with the exception of the wonderfully acted "The Good Girl"). Nick Swardson is along for the ride as Sandler's dippy friend who provides a few laughs along the way but little else and the young actors who portray Aniston's kids are kind of grating after a short while. Nicole Kidman has a small role as Aniston's nemesis from previous years gone by, but her character is so two-dimensional and silly that it's obvious she's brought in only to be used as a filler in a dumb back story involving Aniston's long suffering character Katherine's past. The highlight of this story is the stunning Hawaiian scenery but that's all. This isn't the worst film I've ever seen but it's certainly one of the worst Adam Sandler movies I've had to sit through. He can be absolutely hilarious (Anger Management, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, etc.) but this one kind of bites.

I caught this on cable and watched it primarily because it had Leslie Nielsen in it and I'm a fan of his. This is a film about curling (snooze) and the men who make a go of it. Not a bad try coming from Paul Gross, whom I remember as that charming but not terribly swift Mountie from the quirky t.v. show Due South, but not exactly very interesting either. This movie couldn't decide if it was going to be some sort of "Rah-Rah" comedy where the underdogs triumph after a series of mishaps or if it was a more serious soul-searching study of relationships between Gross and the two Foley sisters (wonderfully played by Molly Parker as the recovering alcoholic with a good heart Amy and by Michelle Nolden as over-achiever astronaut candidate Julie). Nielsen, always perfect in hammy roles, overacts to the extreme as the requisite old timer trying to teach the young impetuous ones how to win at the time honored game of curling. The silliness from the team mates (the pudgy goof ball, the tall lanky quote spewing dork and so-crazy-he's-cool aging party boy) is so over the top trying to be funny that it's not. Another note: having the big bad villains that our poor hapless underdog team must face come from the US (Butte, Montana) is just idiotic. About 90% of Americans don't even know what curling is and if you watched the winter Olympics at all, you'll know that Americans will likely not ever medal in that sport because it's just not their bag. Maybe after baseball, football, basketball, NASCAR, etc. have been eliminated from the ranks will something like curling even become a blip on American radars. It would have been far more exciting (and realistic) to have the rival team be from Scotland, England, or even Scandinavia because then it would have been a real challenge for the Canadian underdogs. It's just too easy to make that "other" country south of the border (south of the Canadian border) be the fall guy because it's very "in" to rag on the US. Maybe Gross figured no one would believe a victory against true curling power houses like Scotland and England so he chose an easy mark instead. Either way, this movie was a confusing mess of slapstick comedy that abruptly changed gears to emotional drama and then changed again to uplifting saga. It couldn't make up it's mind what it was and that's it's downfall. The four stars are solely for the great acting jobs done by Parker and Nolden, otherwise it would get much less. Not the most horrible thing out there ever but certainly not really worth the time to watch at all either. Pass.

Having seen Patrick Fabian in Big Love as Ted Price, I know he can act. So what's up with his overacting in this pile of refuse? The story, about a disillusioned protestant minister who goes to disprove an exorcism (with a film crew) is a retread of so many other bad D-level horror films out there. It's supposed to be a real scary, tension filmed movie but most of it comes across as pathetic and forced, with some over the top and unnecessary gore aimed at defenseless animals and the usual poor expendable people that idiotic movies like this always seem to have hanging around for the single purpose of getting slaughtered heinously. The storyline is weak with a lot of contrived plot bits stolen from really bad 1970's style horror films so it never does anything really cool or fascinating to hold interest. It should be noted that Ashley Bell did a fair job portraying the tormented Nell but that's the only good thing to say about this waste of film.

This is one of the best series I've seen on t.v. in quite some time. The story about the twelve worlds before the cylon attack that happened in Battlestar Galactica: TRS and the introduction and origin of the first cylons was coming together nicely. The pace of the storytelling wasn't super quick and that might be a turn-off if you have a very short attention span but tale being told within this show was rich and varied. They didn't need a lot of explosions going off or dumbed-down dialog (like you see in a great deal of the mainstream network shows on now) to create an interesting and intelligent series. The most famous face in the cast is Eric Stolz, an 80s icon who sort of disappeared for awhile, only to re-emerge with a fine piece of acting as Daniel Graystone, a sometimes morally ambiguous corporate head who's desire to resurrect his daughter Zoe causes him to travel down some pretty dark paths. The whole cast is fantastic, particularly Paula Malcomson as Graystone's doctor wife who's life is spiraling out of control over loss and Sasha Roiz as shady Tauron gangster Sam Adama. What a shame that Syfy may be planning to axe this series due to low numbers. What did they expect by placing it on Tuesday nights at 10:00 p.m. (E.S.T.)? Meanwhile, this same, idiotically spelt network is picking up yet ANOTHER reality based show (read: CHEAPER TO MAKE) series called Hollywood Treasure (Zzzzzzz...). I suppose the demise in Syfy's (the network once known as SciFi) strength as a unique cable network was written in the wind back when they decided to air wrestling (which has WHAT to do with SciFi?) on Friday nights and boot off the truly cool programming that resided there. At any rate, this is (and maybe was) a cool show with a lot of promise and a solid fan base that should have been given a chance to grow. It's still worth checking out on DVD if you get the chance.

This film will never be an Oscar/Bafta contender but then again, it never pretends to be. It's just a super-fast paced action movie that stays true to the silly but highly entertaining 80s series that it's spun from. The action (and humor) starts almost immediately and doesn't slow down until the closing credits. The chemistry between the 4 leads (Liam Neeson, Rampage Jackson, Bradley Cooper, and Sharlto Copley) is excellent and believable, which means the casting director did an awesome job filling the timeless roles of Hanibal, B.A., Face, and Murdock. The comedy is especially good whenever Jackson and Copley share the screen and it makes the characters all the more likable. It should also be noted that Brian Bloom (as shifty Pike) steals a scene or two as a fast-talking villain who still manages to use humor once or twice in a couple of scenes despite the nasty situation at hand at that moment. Lots of stuff gets blown up, shot at or set on fire but that's to be expected with The A-Team. If you want the depth of Schindler's List (ironically, starring Liam Neeson also), then this movie will probably disappoint you. However, if silly, brainless, over-the-top action punctuated with tongue-in-cheek dialog is your bag, then see this movie. It's entertaining and worth a Saturday night at the cinemas.