The A-Team

Actors:  Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Jessica Biel, Sharlto Copley, Quinton Jackson, Patrick Wilson, Brian Bloom, Gerald Macraney
Rating:  8 out of 10, I love it when movies don't try to be anything they're not and just relish in being outlandish.  The A-Team TV show upon which this movie is based was totally over the top and didn't even try to get you to believe this was truly possible and the movie is true to that premise.  It has a truly great ensemble cast called upon to do some of these really over the top action sequences.  M1 tanks cannot be lifted by a C130 aircraft and cannot be parachuted yet here we have the boys not only lifting one in a C130 and then jumping the tank when the plane is shot down, using the weapon systems to have an aerial dogfight while parachuting and then using the main gun to steer to tank into a lake and then driving the tank out of the lake.  While the self-important, overly serious (pompous) movie critic would roll their eyes at this - I love it!  This movie rocks because it doesn't take itself seriously.  You have a loose plot that lets us follow the engaging characters through a series of totally outlandish action sequences.  This the A-Team not Macbeth!  A total escapist, popcorn mess of a movie that any true lover of action movies will rejoice in.  The only downer in the movie is Biel who is totally miscast as an Army investigator - I used to work with some of them.  They were all much smarter and incredibly uglier than Biel.  She just doesn't work but as stated above the rest of the cast is spot on, led by Neeson who is turning himself into an action hero late in his acting career.  Copley steals every scene he's in, as he is demonstrating in all of his movies so far, real talent and incredibly funny.
MVP:  Sharlto Copley as Murdock the truly crazy pilot but the best actor in this movie