Losers

Jul 21, 2010
By Michael Litvinsky

Based on a comic book novel, the movie “Losers” does look like a comic book itself, which, probably, is both this movie’s greatest benefit and its biggest disadvantage.

As every comic book based movie should, “Losers” looks colorful, showy and high-voltage. Chases, gunfights and explosions await you in every corner of the film, and you can be 100 percent sure that the special effects team did their job in the best way possible. On the other hand, all this colorfulness may seem annoying for some of the viewers, as the plot loses itself in it and, at some point, even becomes irrelevant.

The key to not noticing this is simple: you should not take the movie too seriously, and not because the movie may not seem so intelligent, but just because it wasn’t meant to be taken seriously from the beginning. All the characters, all the unrealistic events and practically everything else in this movie is made to stress this point. The film is filled with jokes, both oral and visual. There are a lot of unexpected and mostly illogical turns of events. All this should notify the viewer that the movie they are watching is not an action movie, but a comedy with some elements of action.

Of course, like in every film nowadays, there are several shortcomings - not only in the story , but also in the visual realization, which can, probably, be explained by the lack of experience of the director Sylvian White (“Losers” is his first project of such caliber). For example, the last gunfight does look a little damp, crumpled and does not really reach expectations.

So, overall, the movie is a good Friday/Saturday night entertainment; still, it hardly will ever be considered a masterpiece. The jokes won’t become funnier if you hear them for the second time, and the film will, probably, never cause such excitement as “Avatar,” so it can, without any doubt,  be called “a movie for one evening.” Nevertheless, you will not regret the time you spent watching it, as it is truly entertaining once the lights dim, the curtain pulls back, and the projector man lets it roll.

Now showing in Latvia and Estonia 

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