Although I did enjoy the new A-Team movie for the most part, it did feel formulaic. Not like the origional TV show, but like a combination of movies like Ocean's Eleven, Mission Impossible, and a few others. I liked those films too, I was just expecting something new. The characters were similar enough to the original series to put the fact of different actors aside. In fact, remembering it now, I'm having a hard time not picturing the original TV actors in the scenes from the movie.
Of course, Hannibal had to use the phrase, "I love it when a plan comes together," but B.A.'s catchphrase only made an appearance in the very beginning of the film as tatoos on his knuckles. I didn't quite care for the symbolic significance of B.A.'s haircut though. That seemed a bit pointless.
Mohawk symbolism aside, the one thing that really bothered me was near the end of the film, so I will definately try to tread lightly as to how much I describe. During the film, they established pretty well that Face was good at manipulating people to get his way, but it wasn't really spelled out that he was a "con-man". He devises a complicated plan based on a classic "con-man" thing. Hannibal remarks at one point that, "flashy is underrated." Try unnecessary and highly improbable. It might have possibly worked if the CG had been better, but it was just a lot of bad CG to pull off something that really made very little sense in the first place.
Otherwise, I actually did like this movie. Like I said, the actors stayed true to the characters, and in the case of Murdock, actually improved the character somewhat.
There were some really great moments that recalled what I used to love about the series. I particularly liked the explanation that it was 8 years of flying with Murdock that actually drove a hardcore Airborne Ranger like B.A. to be afraid of flying.
