After years of rumors and false starts, the 1980s classic The A-Team is finally coming to the movie theaters. Fans of the old TV series need not be worried, this new film is everything you could have hoped for.
The back story of the movie remains pretty true to the TV series. The A-team is a group of United States special forces members who were framed for war crimes that they did not commit. Constantly on the run from the U.S. Government who is trying to hunt them down as war criminals, these 4 guys end up doing good deeds by helping innocent people who are in trouble.
In the TV series these guys were former Vietnam veterans. Since the last episode was over 20 years ago, the producers have updated the story slightly and made them Iraqi war veterans.
When I saw the advance screening I damn near did a double-take as each of the 4 principle characters look almost identical to their 1980s counterparts.
Firstly, multiple Oscar nominee Liam Neeson plays the leader of the A-Team Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith. Hannibal was played originally by George Peppard, and I don