Review: "The Losers" is over-the-top fun

By Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel

So now we see why Chris Evans, the onetime Johnny Storm of "The Fantastic Four," was selected to play Captain America in the upcoming "Avengers" comic book epic. This was his audition. As a wise-cracking, parkour-practicing computer specialist, Evans steals "The Losers," another comic-book adaptation about a team of "black ops" agents out for revenge on the fellow who betrayed them.

The movie is a stupid, over-the-top 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 castmates (including Zoe Saldana, Idris Elba and Jason Patric) make it passable entertainment. Director Sylvain White ("Stomp the Yard") keeps it loose and jokey, referencing the comic books and skipping by the silly plot. If "The A-Team" is half this much fun, they'll be lucky.