The Losers

Critic's Rating: 4.0
Cast: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana, Chris Evans, Idris Elba, Columbus Short, Jason Patric
Direction: Sylvain White
Genre: Action
Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes


Movie Review: Ready for another comic book to come alive on screen? you better be, because this time, the comic book literally explodes in your face in its on-screen avatar.

The Losers, with its bratpack of five fighters and its wham-bang action, is so completely over the top, it tantalises you. Add to this, the crunchy (read crazy) one-liners and the sweltering `high-testosterone' show by Zoe `Avatar' Saldana, and you have Hollywood transforming cheese into chic with The Losers.

This high-decibel film opens with an explosive sequence that sees a bunch of kids being meticulously saved by our bunch of heroes from the jungles of Bolivia and then ironically blown off in the SOS helicopter that was supposed to ferry them to safety. After that too, the boom-boom and the slow motion wild-pack-walk is relentless, with zany action set-pieces literally rolling off the conveyor belt in quick succession as the hunted CIA men try to settle scores and set the record straight. Personal favourite: the supposed tele-kinetic shoot-out!! Debonair bad man Max (Jason Patric) is hellish fun too with his trigger happy ways and his witty one-liners. But the mirchi factor is truly Aisha, the badass chick who grew up in the African wilds and had a childhood hobby of collecting human ears. Now howzzat for our feisty miss who confesses she hasn't been called a `girl' for long.

Great fun. Gun for it.