Review of The Losers (2010) by Halofever — 05 May 2023

The most interesting aspect of “The Losers” is all of the MCU and DCEU stars in it. The movie itself starts strong, loses all of its energy, and collapses before it hits the finish line.

There is a lot of fun in the ex-special forces pulling off well planned missions and escaping police custody. I remember when it was called the A-Team and I loved it as a kid. The weak link to this unit is its leader. I was surprised to find out this guy is played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Maybe it’s the doughy body or the perpetually unshaven but never bearded face. The man who played Comedian and Negan never feels right for this part. Not helping is Idris Elba as the second banana. Reverse these roles and then you have a super team. The rest of the team also plays nice. The villain looks like he’s pulled straight out of the 80s, but not in a good way. This move has terrible wardrobe choices.

The team gives you a good feeling when they are making good moral choices and pulling off special op miracles. They are wasted when the plot dissolves and characters are running around doing their own thing. The Expendables movies always built up to this kind of reckless fighting, but the Expendables had fighting men who killed with unique styled and the missions in those movies depended on killing each and every bad guy. “The Losers” needed something a little more clever, and sure enough, the studio never bothered to add anything. (Is writing a script really this hard?).

Just one last point, the sniper in this movie saves the day every time. Sniperd can apparently climb anywhere and see and hear anything from any distance. If you had a team with enough snipers, you could do anything. Make a movie called Sniper Force 5 and I’m in.