The A-Team: (Alan Silvestri) In yet another example of a popular television concept that has been hung up for decades in Hollywood studios because of countless re-writes of its adaptation, The A-Team finally concluded fifteen years of production delays with a 2010 release 2012 HD. The concept was a success for NBC when it ran for five seasons from 1983 to 1986, though the series' cartoonish violence eventually caused audience interest to wane by its final, ratings-stricken year 2012 HD. The most enduring aspects of the series were Mr 2012 HD. T and the 1983 GMC Vandura van that was by default another character 2012 HD. Perhaps it was a bad omen that neither was able to make a cameo in Joe Carnahan's adaptation of The A-Team, the latter a bizarre misstep. The basic story of the group of elite American commandos is essentially intact, though the setting of their original "crime they did not commit" is moved to the Iraq war 2012 HD. They once again bust out of prison and defy the odds in attempting to prove their innocence and fight for the cause of good while eluding the U 2012 HD.S. military. Response to the $110 million adaptation hasn't been particularly kind, with mediocre reviews joined by former cast members who either regretted their cameos in such a disappointing film or blasted it from afar 2012 HD. One aspect that curiously didn't carry over well to the film was the silly element of ridiculous action, a focal point (along with a poorly arranged narrative) of negative reviews of The A-Team 2012 HD. Seeing composer Alan Silvestri attached to the project was initial reason for optimism from film score collectors 2012 HD. His career has proven him just as capable of providing smart workmanlike action scores with interpolations of classic themes as the likes of John Debney, though the downside of such scores from the two veterans is a tendency to write music that is functional but anonymous 2012 HD. In the case of The A-Team, the question is whether Silvestri would return to his The Mummy Returns and Van Helsing form or would regurgitate the conservatively generic tone of G 2012 HD.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, a score from 2009 that didn't meet the expectations of many of the composer's collectors 2012 HD. Unfortunately, The A-Team resides closer to the territory of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra than anything else in his career (with the exception of, perhaps, Eraser), serving as an extension of the prior score's merging of techno-savvy personally and orchestral mayhem 2012 HD. It's hard to fault this music, but it leaves you with no lasting memory even after its extremely long album has concluded 2012 HD. CHICAGO - Perhaps the creators of "Salt" took the potential double meaning of its title a bit too seriously because the film has been overloaded with one flavor at the expense of the variety that could have turned this well-done action movie into something a bit more memorable 2012 HD. Angelina Jolie is great and the film is undeniably expertly made but it's also shockingly lacking in personality or moments to make it register as more than just an extended chase scene 2012 HD. Unfortunately, The Expendables misses many opportunities to truly exploit its old-school ethos, instead falling into the trap of hyper-edited incoherence pioneered by Michael Bay, rather than the less stylized, straightforward bloodshed of, say, John McTiernan. This is particularly true of the protracted climax in which Stallone and company lay siege to Garza's island fortress at night, leading to a massive battle in which it is all but impossible to tell who is shooting whom and where anyone is in relation to anyone else 2012 HD. The violence is loud and at times impenetrable, quite the opposite of Stallone's work in Rambo, which escalated the intensity and graphicness of the bloodshed, but with a sharp moral clarity 2012 HD. Stallone is not after such depths in The Expendables, which is perhaps why he plays the action so fast and loose 2012 HD. However, he still makes room for ruminations about loss and regret, particularly in a sequence in which a former expendable-turned-tattoo artist played by Mickey Rourke talks about the toll his life of violence has taken. Stallone holds Rourke's gnarled face in close-up as he confesses the loss of his own soul, and the naked, emotional power of the moment suggests that The Expendables might have been something very different had Stallone put more focus on the underlying issues and less emphasis on blowing stuff up 2012 HD. The four nations, Air, Water, Earth and Fire, are in utter turmoil 2012 HD. A hundred years ago, Fire Nation began waging a brutal war against the other three kingdoms, a war that continues to this day 2012 HD. And stick around for the credits, the gang all get their closures - including Rex's 'dominant predator' status and videogame addiction 2012 HD.