The Losers is the film adaptation of the "graphic novel"--which is just a fancy way of saying comic book--of the same name by Andy Diggle and Jock (yes, that's what he calls himself!). The plot of the flick follows similar plots of films like The Expendables and The A-Team: an elite black-ops team gets set up by one of their higher-ups for a crime they didn't commit and they set out to clear their name. This film stars some actors whom I've never heard of before save for Jason Patric (of The Lost Boys and--gag!--Speed 2 fame) and the "uber" hot Zoe Saldana (who, of course, played the sexy naked blue chick in the blockbuster Avatar) who plays a character that seemed all-too-familiar to the character she played in her flick Colombiana, i.e. a sexy gun-toting ass-kicking chick who shoots first and asks questions later (my type of chick!). Anyway, as I pointed out, this flick is similar to The Expendables and The A-Team except that in the end--spoiler alert!--"the losers" don't catch the bad guy who set them up--i.e. a rogue government agent played by Patric--as it looks as if they were setting up for a sequel or a series of sequels, which, due to the film's rather lackluster box office (which probably didn't help that it was released at around the same time as the much more successful The A-Team), obviously didn't happen. In any case, The Losers is a passable action flick--even if is similar to The Expendables and/or The A-Team--and contains enough action that is sure to satisfy even the most hardcore action flick fan (and, of course, having Zoe Saldana providing the obligatory eye candy sure doesn't hurt!).
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