Apparently Rolling Thunder is on Tarantino's top10 list of films which seems strange as it's a rather mediocre tale of revenge. A returning POW is tortured by some coin collecting Mexican's, his hand mangled in the waste disposal and wife and son slaughtered in front of him so unsurprisingly after getting out of hospital and sharpening up his hook/hand he heads for the border for some serious payback. The acting is good, the action solid and I guess there's some interesting stuff about the psychological damage he received as a prisoner but ultimately this is just window dressing for a massive shootout.
We all expect our summer blockbusters to be dumb but The A Team really, really pushes the boat out on the stupid. I always thought the original show was a bit lame, I mean what sort of soldier fires off a full clip and never hits anyone? anyways this big screen version is much the same: lots of big & noisy thoughtless action peppered with "witty" one liners. The cast perform adequately though there's little acting actually required and the messy plot is steamrolled by the frenetic pace of explosions-stunts-shootings.
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