Patrick Wilson

A few weeks ago I went to the cinema to watch the movie re-make of the 1983 TV series – “The A-Team“. I haven’t seen the original, but I’ve heard a lot about it. As for the new movie – I only saw the trailer, and I was hooked. It seemed like my kind of action movie.

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And it turned out to be even better than I expected. From the first few moments, the film sets the mood and establishes itself as an entertainment-only flick. What follows a non-stop waterfall of action and witty humor. As far as action comedy goes, I think it’s one of the best films in the last few years. Sure, “Iron Man” had its share of jokes, but “The A-Team” took it way beyond. Just the scene of the A-Team using the tank to fight while falling down from the airplane is worth the money for the ticket. But there is so much more!

Highly recommended for a fun Friday evening. 5 out of 5.

“Watchmen” turned out to be quite a disappointment for me personally. Maybe that’s because I am not much into comics and maybe because I don’t know who watchmen are and how they came about. But still…

The poster was sort of speaking for itself, and film’s opening credits were pretty cool. It started pretty well. But then it went into a totally different direction. Instead of being your regular comics-based story with a bunch of good and bad guys, and a fight between them, this time it was all about the psychology and drama of a superhero. There were quite a few superheros, who, for some reason, didn’t seem to be really superheros, but rather a bunch of guys in weird costumes. They didn’t do anything superheroic, didn’t have any tricks up their sleeves, didn’t care much about anything else.

The visual effects were excellent, but with no base for those effects, no action, they started to grow pretty boring. And the film went on and on and on (almost 3 hours), and by the time of it I myself was almost falling asleep. I pulled it through, but barely.

If you are into superheros and everything that surrounds them, then you’ll probably enjoy this film. For me though it was somewhere on the scale of 3 out of 10.