A Team (2010)

Do you remember those old hindi/english movies of the 80's and early 90's where everything was blown up, but nobody died and there was huge dose of humour to go along with the dynamite? A Team takes you back to those days. When men were dirty and crass, women were beautiful and bitchy and there was a "twist ending" but the heroes always saved the day!  Again the movie is inspired by a series that ran during the 80's ( me thinks) so full fledged masala, action, drama, comedy, tragedy can be expected.

As for the characters - Liam Neeson as Colonel Hannibal brings the necessary "madness with a suave gravity" Bradley Cooper is Face, the casanova, Jessica Beil is cute, but not very bitchy as Capt Sosa and Baracus played by Quinton Jackson, finds Gandhi, non violence and facial hair in between and then losses it all :). The background is Iraq and Saddam is mentioned a few hundred times (still?!)

[spoiler] The team is assigned a covert operation to get back some dollar engraving plates that were lost. Its actually (and obviously) a set up and they are sent off to prison. [spoiler end] How they get out, clear their name and smash the bad boys to oblivion forms the rest of the movie. There were enough explosions to keep my husband happy and just enough brains in the plot to keep everybody interested without taking away from the sheer masalafication!

  

7/10