Even The Losers Get Lucky Sometimes

The Losers are a macho group of rag-tag military guys with nicknames as cliché as the rest of the movie itself (see poster above for nicknames). Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

The first scene arbitrarily sets up the premise: A 5-man military unit is on a mission. The unit is set-up; the mission goes bad, and they’re left for dead. The gang goes off the grid until a mystery woman offers to help them get their lives back and then spend the rest of the film exacting revenge on man they know only by his voice and a name: Max.

Max is fantastic, by the way. Jason Patrick, not necessarily known for light-hearted fare, injects snarky humour into the heartless bad-guy. He steals each scene he is in and, at least for me, he made this movie. The rest of the cast are as cliché as you’d expect in a B-class comic book movie. (Is The Losers even considered B-class?) Each of the Losers has his own specialty and they crack wise and act macho, but they all have a heart of gold...or do they?

There’s plenty of over the top action, complete with double crosses. The good guys are all perfectly accurate while the bad guys have the reflexes of turtles. There’s a cool state-of-the-art terrorist weapon that is there to have something to stop at the last second, and there’s even a love-story; but it’s merely a blip. Zoe Sandala is basically in it to look good; which I’m fine with.

Overall, The Losers is a TV Movie with a bigger budget. At the same time, that’s the beauty of it. It doesn’t take itself too seriously and that’s why I had fun. It had action; it had laughs; and it sets up nicely for a sequel. How could I expect anything more?

3 Dented Bumpers*


*Crash’s Film Rating Legend:
5 DB’s -- Freaking Fantastic! (a rating that’s not easily attained, btw)
4–4.5 DB’s -- Great: It’s worth seeing again/owning.
3–3.5 DB’s -- Decent – Good (I’d watch it again on cable)
2–2.5 DB’s -- Meh; (possibly had potential, but I won’t watch it again)
1DB -- Awful; I want my money back.

Anything less is not even worth downloading illegally