The A-Team

"Best enjoyed (a la the "Mission: Impossible" franchise) by simply admiring the explosions and silliness without dwelling too much on the skeletal plot."

"So this new version of The A Team is to be applauded; a faithful, straight and relatively intelligent action thriller which will appeal to fans new and ol"

"The obstacle that the director Joe Carnahan and his colleagues failed to clear was finding the right self-mocking tone for a movie that was, by the looks of it, too expensive to risk real laughs."

"It's big, loud, ludicrous and edited into visual incomprehension. But pity the fool who lets that stand in the way of enjoying The A-Team."

"Bored out of my mind during this spectacle, I found my attention wandering to the subject of physics."

"You've got to love it when a plan comes together - this is a lot of fun."

"An underwhelming experience. I pity the fool, as TV star Mr. T might say, who mistakes this for genuine entertainment."

"The film seems nearly writer-free. Absolutely no time gets wasted on story, character development or logic."

"Brought up by a TV critic father, my sisters and I were never allowed to watch rubbish like The A-Team on telly when we were growing up."