The Losers
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: April 23, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
18
Negative:
8
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
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. Read full review
67
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
A breezy, dumb and lightweight film that has the benefit of not trying terribly hard to be about much of anything and succeeding (bravo?). Read full review
63
Orlando SentinelRoger Moore
The movie is a stupid, over-the-top comic-booky action picture with the occasional cheesy effect, oddball casting and an utterly predictable get-that-guy-before-he-gets-us plot, but Evans and a couple of his mates make it passable entertainment. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
The movie is ALL revenge, all the time Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Still, for those who feel that too few movies these days offer the pure bliss of a testosterone overload, The Losers provides an antidote. Read full review
63
Rolling StonePeter Travers
As an action fix to hold you before the summer explosions start, you could do worse than The Losers. It’s no more than an efficient time-killer. Read full review
60
VarietyPeter Debruge
The Losers is the sort of pyro-heavy exercise parodied in "Tropic Thunder," and no amount of production polish can hide the hollowness beneath its junk-food high. Read full review
60
Boxoffice MagazinePete Hammond
The Losers not only looks like a low rent, buttoned-down version of The A-Team, but it also resembles a hybrid of other flicks like "Mission: Impossible" and "Inglourious Basterds." Read full review
60
SalonGene Seymour
Don't ask for much, and your expectations will be met. Why invest anything as extraneous or irrelevant as "thought" into such a transaction? Read full review
60
EmpireJames White
Lithe, bold, often funny and full of characters to cheer for, it never pretends to be anything more than a trigger-happy romp. If that’s what you’re after, The Losers offers plenty of explosive entertainment. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Basically, it's "The A-Team" meets "Rambo" meets "Mission: Impossible," with a mission that's one part trickiness, four parts blowing stuff up. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
The film never is boring, but it's never engaging, either, because its heroes hit every target in sight, while the villains, despite holstering much greater weaponry, never hit anybody. So forget about suspense. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicBill Goodykoontz
The Losers does a perfectly serviceable job of achieving its low ambitions. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
As the bad guy, Jason Patric gets the funniest lines, but there are plenty to go around; though rigidly formulaic the movie is undeniably good-humored, if you don't count all those minor characters getting shot in the face. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
The script is boilerplate, the wit pretty much witless. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
The amusement it provides is cheap, disposable, and hardly worth the number of quarters you fed into the slot in a frenzy not to go home empty-handed. Read full review
50
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
The first dumb-fun action movie of the summer season has arrived early with The Losers, a loud, loving homage to guns and testosterone based on a series of comic books about a renegade band of CIA operatives. How dumb is it? You might actually kill a few million brain cells just watching it. Read full review
50
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
About the only thing that distinguishes this iteration from those of yore is that the violence is more explicit, the edits are faster, and no one has a stogie stuck in his kisser. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Though they have plenty of lethal weapons at their disposal, the Losers are nowhere near as fun as the '80s action-flick heroes they emulate. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesBetsy Sharkey
There are enough clever bits, in that exploding-bodies kind of way, to inject some fun into the party. White and director of photography Scott Kevan, who collaborated on "Stomp the Yard," have some seriously inventive visuals, which at times are smash-cut fabulous. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
Providing expectations are kept low, there’s some fun to be had in the elaborately preposterous action set-pieces, and especially Jason Patric’s campy performance as the movie’s villain. Read full review
50
Tampa Bay TimesSteve Persall
Without previous knowledge of Andy Diggle's comics, The Losers looks like every other globetrotting gunpowder flick in which good guy bullets never miss and bad guy bullets never hit their targets. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
It's not rocket science making nonstop action feel semi-fresh, and The Losers’ script by Peter Berg and James Vanderbilt manages to render each individual, um, a loser in the broadest and most memorable strokes. It's not a masterpiece, either, but it'll do until Hannibal, Murdock, and the rest the A-gamers start blowing things up come June. Read full review
40
Time OutJoshua Rothkopf
The Losers is the ultimate example, scraped from the bottom of the comic-book barrel, where writer Andy Diggle’s figurine-like characters first had their exploits in an exciting War on Terror. Read full review
38
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe Williams
Whether you're betting on action or laughs, this is a lose-lose scenario. Read full review
30
Village VoiceDan Kois
A busy, unsatisfying comic thriller, poorly acted by a grab bag of new faces and franchise movie refugees, and set to a hard-rock soundtrack. Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalJohn Anderson
In addition to all else, and it's a lot, The Losers wastes the riches of Hollywood technology in hot pursuit of nothing. Read full review
25
ObserverRex Reed
Staying awake during this ordeal of incompetent, incomprehensible stupidity is not difficult. It’s so noisy that you can hear it in the next town. Staying interested is something else entirely. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
There isn’t a whiff of humility or self-deprecation to Clay, Roque, Jensen, Cougar, and Pooch, a collection of black-ops douchebags and our ostensible heroes. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
The Losers is boring. It's predictable. It's so, so active, and yet so, so dead. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsJoe Neumaier
The Losers is simply a lot of low blows, telegraphed each and every time. Read full review
12
New York PostKyle Smith
This movie -- G.I. Joke, The D-Team -- tries to do so little, and yet falls so short. A clue comes when the girl asks Clay, "How's your steak?" and he replies, "Meaty." Simple enough to achieve in theory, but this would-be treat for cinematic carnivores is a sawdust sandwich. Read full review
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