Movie ripoffs of TV shows, specifically 70s and 80s action shows, as a general rule don't do so well, remember Miami Vice or Starsky and Hutch? Probably neither does anybody else, so in that regard, I'd say this movie's fared the best of them so far. Now there's the exception of the piece of crap 21 Jump Street, but we won't get into that right now.
Yeah okay this is the origin of it, and we should probably be thankful that they didn't try to do it as the original in Vietnam and with them being Green Berets (I'm still waiting for somebody to explain that one, why WAS it changed from Green Berets to Rangers?), but it just is not the A-Team, it is AN A-Team, as a typical stand alone run-of-the-mill action movie, it does very well, but because it DOES have a pre-existing title to it, that comes with a legacy, and the movie can't touch that legacy, no matter how hard they tried which I really don't think was too much. Some people look at Sharlto's Murdock and say he's not Murdock, not as good as Murdock, and this is AFTER Sharlto has reworked Murdock to BE more like Murdock, the original script had him very UN-Murdocklike. In short, you take on a project and give it an already established, famous, and well loved name, you have big shoes to fill, and you better be able to deliver; and I'm sure they tried, but they just fell a little flat.
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