I never watched the show. Mr. T was the only aspect that seemed at all intriguing, and he just wasn’t enough to pull me. And the chafing part of watching The A-Team in theaters is how much of a problem that became. Without an understanding, without an awareness of the minor characters and the relationships and the dated sense of humor, this film becomes work. There’s an ever-present potential for reference, which means the under prepared viewer is never able to settle down and simply have an experience. An experience which, besides it’s desperate obligation to the source, is mostly scrambled and frenetic. Like most of the summer movies you’ve ever seen, the first priority of The A-Team is to bombard you with action. I’m not sure what it is about these productions that precludes the possibility of spectacular action AND an enjoyable story. Certainly it’s not as though we’ve never seen it before (A couple Mission Impossible movies, a few James Bond‘s, the Bourne flicks, etc.), but whatever the logic, The A-Team is definitively just one piece of the pie, ghosting everything else and smirking, as it inevitably and perhaps appropriately, makes stupid amounts of money.
Peter Wertz
Wertz of Wisdom 
