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Explosions, Car Crashes and plans that come together,
oh my!
Fans of the 1980s television show The A-Team will have a ball at the movie of the same name, now blowing up things at a theater near you. Embodying the spirit, if not exactly the look, of the original, Joe Carnahan's picture explodes, crashes and fisticuffs its way through its two-hour running time, with hardly a stop for actual, deep-meaning dialogue or exposition. Okay, maybe there are a few such pauses to refresh the action, but they are basically meaningless in the big picture of the thing: this is a movie about blowing stuff up and blowing stuff up again (many of the action set pieces are especially clever), and if that isn't the recipe for a summertime action extravaganza that plants a big smile on its audience's collective face, I don't know what is. The players do a solid job as the four principals, especially Sharlto (District 9) Copley as Murdock and Quinton "Rampage" Jackson as B.A. Baracus (complete with Mohawk and seductive snarl). It's a fun ride through and through, and through it all, it's this summer's first blockbuster that deserves to wear the term proudly.
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