Losers (2010)

"...too few movies these days offer the pure bliss of a testosterone overload, The Losers provides an antidote.  James Berardinelli, ReelViews.com
"...The A-Team meets Rambo meets Mission: Impossible...  Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
"The movie is ALL revenge, all the time.  Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

Editor's Note Director Sylvain White adapts the Vertigo comic about a team of mercenaries who wage war on the CIA after they're double-crossed in the field and left to die. Clay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), Jensen (Chris Evans), Roque (Idris Elba), Pooch (Columbus Short), and Cougar (Óscar Jaenada) were on a black-ops mission in the Bolivian jungle when rogue CIA agent Max (Jason Patric) hung them out to dry. After beating the odds and surviving their ordeal, the team decides to strike back against Max even if it means sacrificing their own lives to do so. Aiding them on their treacherous suicide mission is sexy operative Aisha (Zoe Saldana), who has her own reasons for wanting to see Max get his just deserts. But getting to Max won't be easy, because in addition to having the CIA on his side, he's about to spark a war that could plunge the entire globe into chaos. Their time quickly running out as Max's plan kicks into overdrive, the Special Forces unit that everyone assumed dead arms themselves to the teeth and prepares to strike back with a vengeance.

	Idris Elba
	Zoe Saldana
	Chris Evans
	Columbus Short
	Jeffrey Dean Morgan
	Jason Patric - Co-Star
	Chris Derochie - Animation
	Image Engine - Visual Effects Designer
	Margarita Jeannot - Hairstylist
	Peter Francis James - Co-Star
	Holt McCallany - Co-Star
	Tanee McCall - Co-Star
	Daniel Kalal - Co-Star
	Ernesto Morales - Co-Star
	Evan Miranda - Co-Star
	Noel Estrella - Co-Star
	Gunner Wright - Co-Star
	Robert Slavonia - Co-Star
	Debbie Ann Rivera - Co-Star
	Kirk Sullivan - Co-Star
	Marcos Davila - Co-Star
	Alanis M. Salinas - Co-Star
	Manuel O. Velazquez - Co-Star
	Thomas R. Nunan III - Co-Star
	John Galindez - Co-Star
	Lindsey Sutton - Co-Star
	Alan J. Trudeau - Co-Star
	Rafael Lopez Diaz - Co-Star
	Norman Grant - Co-Star
	Krissy Korn - Co-Star
	Garrett Warren - Co-Star
	Mark Ginther - Co-Star
	Peter Macdissi - Co-Star
	Rey Hernandez - Co-Star
	Oscar Jaenada - Co-Star
	Colin Follenweider - Co-Star
	Peter Berg - Screenwriter
	Angel A. Rivera - Makeup Designer
	Luc Etienne - Assistant Director
	Stuart M. Besser - Production Manager/UPM
	John Ottman - Composer
	Scott Kevan - Director of Photography
	Robin LeChanu - Production Manager/UPM
	Garrett Warren - Stunt Coordinator
	James Vanderbilt - Screenwriter
	Vera Steimberg - Makeup
	Dominique Borrell Vlimant - Makeup
	Loida E. Jeannot - Hairstylist
	Shie Rozow - Music Editor
	Robert Spurlock - Special Effects
	Sylvain White - Director

Box Office
3 stars out of 5 -- "Morgan is a strong presence and his scenes with Saldana crackle....Short and Elba have strong moments, and Jaenada always seems to appear just in time to save the day." 04/21/2010

Chicago Sun-Times
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[A] clean, efficient and entertaining thriller....THE LOSERS looks, feels and plays like a real movie." 04/21/2010

Rolling Stone
?Evans, the Human Torch in FANTASTIC FOUR and next up as Captain America, gets just the right blend of humor and hardass into his role.? 05/13/2010

Total Film
3 stars out of 5 -- "THE LOSERS is brash, fast and funny enough to get away with murder." 05/10/2010

Sight and Sound
"[T]he escalation of set-piece raids, stunts and scams offers enough self-contained adventures to hold the attention." 07/01/2010

Premiere
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[A] fun and exhilarating action film....Sylvain White makes a live action comic the way all directors should by keeping the energy level cranked at all times." 07/19/2010

Chicago Sun-Times 9 of 10
The Losers is a classical action movie based on a comic strip. It does just enough nodding toward the graphics of drawn superheroes, and then gets that out of the way and settles down into a clean, efficient and entertaining thriller. It's a reminder of how exhausting this kind of material can be when it's brought to a manic level by overwrought directors. But The Losers looks, feels and plays like a real movie. There is another reason to be grateful: It's not in 3-D. You have to treasure movies like this before they're entirely eaten away by the marketing gimmicks...Story, straightforward, no gargoyles. Five tough guys go on a mission against a drug lord in Bolivia. They abort the mission when they see a bus full of little kids arrive at the target. No luck. A voice named "Max" orders a plane to carry out a bombing run. The tough guys break in and rescue the kids just in time. A helicopter is sent for them. No room on the copter except for the kids. The copter is shot down, the kids die..."That was supposed to be us," they say, regarding the smoldering wreckage. A close-up of flames still licking at a toy bear that was established earlier as belonging to a cute kid. Note: Whenever a kid gets on a copter in an action film and is told to take good care of his bear, the kid and the bear will go down in flames...The tough guys rip off their dog tags and throw them on the flames. Now they're the Losers, dedicated to bringing the mysterious Max to justice. Who is he? They guess maybe CIA-Special Forces-Black Ops -- nobody knows. Meanwhile, they're officially dead and stranded in Bolivia with no passports and no money...The Losers knows what it's doing and how to do it. Sylvain White doesn't have a lot of credits but he knows how to direct and not trip over his own feet. The movie gets the job done, and the actors show a lot of confidence in occupying that tricky middle ground between controlled satire and comic overkill. It's fun...I noted that Zoe Saldana is beautiful. I noted something else. In keeping with the current popularity of cafe au lait complexions, the movie uses lighting and filters to bathe the romantic scenes in a kind of golden glow, so that Saldana and Morgan come out looking about the same. We're no longer making people of color look whiter in the movies; we're tinting people of whiteness. Time marches on. - Roger Ebert