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Double Feature DVD: The Losers & RocknRolla with Gerard Butler
The Losers
An explosive action tale of betrayal and revenge, The Losers centers around an elite Special Forces unit sent to the Bolivian jungle on a search-and-destroy mission. But the team – Clay, Jensen, Roque, Pooch and Cougar – soon find that they have become the target of a deadly double cross instigated by a powerful enemy known only as Max. Making good use of the fact they’re now presumed dead, the group goes deep undercover in a dangerous plot to clear their names and even the score with Max.
The Losers
provides nonstop and pretty thrilling action, with a stellar cast,
doing the comic book series from which it was adapted proud in the
process. The movie may not have an airtight plot line, but its
enthusiastic, talented actors--Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana, Chris
Evans, and the underappreciated Jason Patric--and the crisp,
punch-packing direction by Sylvain White more than make up for it. The Losers
follows the gambits of a team of U.S. Special Forces, with
appropriately comic-bookish names like Clay (Morgan), Roque (Idris
Elba), Jensen (Evans), Pooch (Columbus Short), and Cougar (Óscar
Jaenada). They're sent to Bolivia, where they are double-crossed and
presumed dead--with a big bad evil guy, Max (Patric), hot on their
trail. In the jungle, they join up with a mystery woman (Saldana, a
confident, believable action hero) with her own agenda--and perhaps not
the most trustworthy of intentions. The action is nonstop, with plenty
of great special effects, as the team continues mostly under the radar
with both its mission and trying to stay one step ahead of the shadowy
Max. Morgan is terrific as a budding action star, self-deprecating in
the manner of George Clooney, and a man who (almost always) gets the job
done. And he'd be nowhere without his crew of sidekicks, all of whom
have great chemistry and repartee, though it's Evans's Jensen who gets
the best comic-relief lines. "I'm warning you, I am a lethal killing
machine," Jensen intones to a mocking disbeliever. "In the words of
ancient Taoist masters, 'Don't start none… Won't be none.'" Saldana
brings great sex appeal to her role as the mystery ally. The comic-book
nonstop action in The Losers makes it the perfect movie escape--a true winner for fans of action, humor, and a little extra kick in the pants. --A.T. Hurley
Rocknrolla
“I own this town.” But owning is getting expensive for old-school London gangster Lenny Cole (Tom Wilkinson). A wealthier foreign mob is moving in with a riverfront property swindle. A small-timer (Gerard Butler) and his crew think they can play both sides and become big time. Now add a hard-as-ice accountant (Thandie Newton), a rocker playing dead to boost sales, wannabe music moguls (Jeremy Piven and Chris Bridges), a missing painting and a mad mosh of money and muscle, and youve got this funny, smash-mouth smackdown of sexthugs&rocknroll from writer/director Guy Ritchie (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch).
