Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Phillida Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Allissa .Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

starfish69 The second they put the kids on the helicopter it was SO obvious the helicopter would be shot down and they would spend the rest of the film seeking revenge. All the plot elements are so predictable it's laughable. The betrayal of a team member the hero had a fight with, the team being rescued by the female co-star, the villain shooting the tech guy as soon as he armed the bomb. There isn't a shred of originality to be found ANYWHERE in this film. The evil villain is ridiculously cartoonish. I suspected he would either walk away at the end or have a quick, easy death, because that's how stupid this film is. And I was right. The villain got away with just a bullet wound in the shoulder. My guess is they opted to let him get away because they were vainly assuming this would become a franchise (no need to create a new insane megalomaniac villain).

latinfineart I hated this movie. I tend to dislike movies that require me to take cartoon type, leaps of faith, which this required every few minutes. It felt like they were making it specifically for 8-13 year olds. It could have been good. The cast was decent. Jeffrey Dean Morgan is always good. But, the direction was poor, the stunts were stupid, and the entire story as inane. Where the genre-refreshing Kick-Ass' introduces you to a spunky 11 year-old superhero you can't get enough of, Zoe's Aisha feels more like a worn-out retread right out of the Hollywood action flick recycle bin. The same can be said for the rest of this tired production, from the lame-brained plot to the cheesy f/x to the sloppy stunt work to the profusion of cartoonish, one-dimensional characters. Saldana is really wasted here. As is Morgan, and Patric. And Elba? My oh my. It was the Nicolas Cage school of reading scripts. How much? OK, I will take it. The story opens in the jungles of Bolivia where a team of U.S. Special Forces commandos led by Colonel Clay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) are on assignment to bring a drug kingpin (Peter Francis James) to justice. The other members of the elite squad include getaway car driver/daredevil pilot Pooch (Columbus Short), ruthless, money-hungry Rogue (Idris Elba), computer hacker Jensen (Chris Evans) and sharpshooting sniper Cougar (Oscar Jaenada).The operation goes horribly wrong when their helicopter is hit by a rocket-propelled grenade and explodes into smithereens while hovering in midair. Fortunately, instead of Clay and his unit riding inside, the chopper was filled with 25 orphans they had altruistically arranged to airlift to safety.Realizing that they've just been betrayed by a mole inside the CIA, the quintet opts to make believe they actually did perish in the air disaster. Trusting no one, other than Aisha (Saldana), the mysterious temptress who materializes out of nowhere to seduce Clay, they proceed to track the shadowy figure (Jason Patric) they suspect was behind the attempted hit.That trail takes the gun-toting globetrotters from Bogota to such ports of call as Miami, Puerto Rico, Houston, Mumbai and Los Angeles. The film indulges in an array of high body-count shootouts and poorly-shot pyrotechnic displays en route to the totally predictable finale.Don't expect to see anything special in this under-budgeted homage to bad B-movies. Unfortunately, the outdated special effects employed here, like an exploding, green screen fireball everybody manages to keep one step ahead of, render the movie more laughable than suspenseful. It is a bit liking watching the movie Speed. Yes, buses can jump over rivers, if they can get enough speed before they jump. Right. Losers? Definitely.

wayward_philosopher I don't understand the hate for this movie. Sure, it's not the most original, but few action flicks are these days. But at least from this one you get some pretty great laughs, solid acting with a couple of stand out performances, and an all around fun ride. For me, performances not to be missed include Idris Elba as the intense, skeptical, yet practical second-in-command, pre-Captain America Chris Evans as the utterly obnoxious, yet hilarious motor mouth tech guy (the scene where he goes in under cover as a Journey belting bike messenger is my favorite), and Jason Patric as the possibly insane, unnervingly cheery, bad guy. Columbus Short as Pooch definitely deserves honorable mention. And Zoë Saldana never disappoints.With that said, yes, there are things that don't work for me, like the gratuitous and cliché romance between Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Zoë Saldana. And at times, sure, it is definitely a little too over the top ridiculous, but I think this is by design, and I challenge you to find a contemporary action flick, especially one based on a comic book, that is not. To me, the A-team movie was so much worse on that score.Still, this movie deserves a watch, especially if you're a fan of action flicks. Provided you don't try to take the movie more seriously than it takes itself, you won't be disappointed!

englishpete65 A movie that starts promisingly, the cast are perfectly capable actors but the script is woeful and scenes which are supposed to evoke tension are both devoid of any and utterly predictable. Zoe Saldana plays Aisha of whom it is claimed "...the CIA has a standing kill order on her, as does Hamas, Sinn Féin, pretty much everyone with the exception of PETA wants this chick amscrayed". Whilst it may be possible that the CIA and the military wing of Hamas want this lady dead, Sinn Féin is a political party who do not have outstanding kill orders on anyone. They are affiliated with the Provisional IRA who might engage in such activities. In short, the script is idiotic and at times makes no sense. There are some decent special effects that are completely wasted on a movie so poorly thought out and the same goes for the cast who do an amazing job of making this turd of a movie seem vaguely palatable. Unfortunately this picture isn't even so bad it's good. It is just awful. Utterly forgettable.