Last week I read on AintItCoolNews that a “leaked version of the A-Team trailer was out and about. As an avid fan of the 80′s show I scoured the net in search of it. And when I found a version with extremely poor resolution on YouTube, I didnt’ care. After all, its the A-Team we’re talking about here. Seeing a full scale version of B.A., Hannibal, Faceman and Howling Mad on the silver screen has been a dream of mine since I was a small child. Just as it was to see Transformers, but that’s another story (the 1st Transformers was tolerable, but the 2nd was horrible).
So with Liam Neeson as Col. Hannibal, Bradley Cooper as Faceman, Sharlto Copley as Murdock and Quintin ‘Rampage’ Jackson as B.A., I felt the cast was decent, especially with Liam Neeson in the mix. But after seeing the trailer… I think they made a BIG mistake in casting Neeson and Cooper. Liam, a great actor by all accounts, and Bradly, still flying high on the success of ‘The Hangover’, don’t embody the essence I saw in Peppard and Benedict.
From what I saw in the trailer it looks like Liam is phoning in his performance and Bradly, who has a shirtless scene to show off is newly chiseled physique, looks more like a male model who than a solider. I can see how Joe Carnahan (Narc, Smoking Aces) thought those two would be a good fit, and on paper they seem great. It didn’t quite fit, at least for me, when I saw them together in the trailer. Maybe its just me trying to transition from the guys I grew up watching in those roles to the guys who are playing them on the big screen…
I guess I have to see the film before I can fully commit to either liking the casting choices or not.
