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Fandango latest reviews Search movie , Sharlto Copley, and Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson in "The A-Team." showtimes and buy Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work tickets. Jonah Hex The A-Team Toy Story 3 Winter's Bone about us BY ROGER EBERT / June 9, 2010 About the site » "The A-Team” is an The Wild Hunt incomprehensible mess with Cyrus Site FAQs » the 1980s TV show cast & credits Grown Ups embedded inside. The I am Love characters have the same Hannibal Liam Neeson Contact us » The Killer Inside Me names, they play the same Charisa Jessica Biel more current releases » Email the Movie types, they have the same Face Bradley Cooper Answer Man » traits, and they're easily as Murdock Sharlto Copley shallow. That was OK for a one-minute movie reviews B.A. Quinton TV sitcom, which is what the “Rampage” Jackson on sale now show really was, but at over still playing two hours of Queasy-Cam Lynch Patrick Wilson anarchy, it's punishment. The A-Team 20th Century-Fox presents a film Accomplices The movie uses the new directed by Joe Carnahan. Written style of violent action, which by Carnahan, and Skip After.Life fragments sequences into Woods. Based on the TV series by Babies so many bits and pieces The Back-up Plan that it's impossible to form Stephen J. Cannell and Frank Lupo. City Island any sense of what's Running time: 121 minutes. Rated happening, or where, or to PG-13 (for intense sequences of Clash of the Titans Buy now » whom. The actors appear in action and violence throughout, Cyrus flash-frames, intercut with language and smoking). Daddy Longlegs shards of CGI and Date Night accompanied by loud Printer-friendly » Death at a Funeral noises, urgent music and E-mail this to a friend » many explosions. This The Eclipse continues for the required Exit Through the Gift Shop length, and then there's The Father of My Children some dialogue. Not a lot. A Get Him to the Greek few words, a sentence, The Girl on the Train Buy now » sometimes a statement that crosses the finish line at paragraph length. The Good Heart The Greatest The plot: Wrongly framed for counterfeiting, the A-Team members, all Grown Ups Iraq veterans, bust out of various prisons and go after the engraving Harry Brown plates, which would be pretty much worn out while printing enough Holy Rollers http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100609/REVIEWS/100609973 Page 1 of 3 The A-Team :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews 10-06-24 12:13 PM

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