I’ll say this: The Losers was a perfectly enjoyable retelling of a story I’ve already seen maybe a million times.
I’m sure for a lot of action movie fans, it was nigh on to excruciating to watch this picture trot out the old cliched standbys–the slow-mo, men-on-a-mission walk toward the camera, the “dammit, I wanna go back to my family, but loyalty prevents me from taking the easy way out” scene…they’re all there, front and center.
But you know, I didn’t mind so much. And the two biggest reasons for that are Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Chris Evans. Morgan’s got a swagger that’s fun to watch, and Evans’ character was written as though it was meant to be in a different, better movie. I really am looking forward to seeing him as Captain America. Between him and Ryan Reynolds’ Green Lantern, 2011 could be a cool, cool year for comic book movies.
The only disappointment of the flick (and if you come out of a movie like this disappointed, you only have yourself to blame for having expectations of any kind) was Zoe Saldana, who really brought next to nothing to the table this time around. That’s hard or me to say considering her mo-cap performance and voice work are some of the only non-CGI reasons I enjoyed “Avatar”. Still, I was hoping for something a little more from her.
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