A group of elite commandos are blamed for a crime they didn’t commit. If you have a problem, and if you can find them, then maybe you could hire... Despite the similarities, this is not The A-Team being described here.

In 2003 DC Comics published The Losers; they were a revengeful Special Forces team, who conducted covert operations with the intent of having their names removed from a secret CIA death list. This film adaptation plays around with the plot a little, but the main premise remains the same.

Franklin Clay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is the brains behind this band of commandos known as The Losers. Together with Roque (Idris Elba), Cougar (Óscar Jaenada), Pooch (Columbus Short) and Jake (Chris Evans), they find themselves deep in the heart of Bolivia, on a Special Ops mission.

What should have been a mission-by-numbers job soon spirals out of control and ends up going horrifically wrong. To avoid having all the blame pinned on them, Clay and the team make out that they died during the mission. This allows them to go off the grid and cool off for a while. They are soon contacted by Aisha (Zoe Saldana) who not only knows who was really responsible for the failure of the mission, but more importantly, knows how to get to him.

Although cautious of her offer, the team have little choice but to trust her. Besides, they really would like to get their hands on the guy who screwed them over.

What's that you say? You've fallen and you can't get up?

It may sound overly familiar but the truth is The Losers is everything the recent poor A-Team remake should have been. It’s bold, cheeky, hip, witty, explosive and fun. And although Sylvain White hasn’t got many films under his belt, his direction is both assured and snappy.

There’s also a real feeling of camaraderie between the actors, who do a great job in making out that they’re part of a tight-knitted team. They all deliver the goods, but a special mention should go to Evans, who amongst other things, manages to put a whole new spin on the classic ‘Don’t Stop Believin’’, the likes of which you’ll never see on Glee.

The one performance that truly steals the show though, comes by way of Jason Patric as Max. Patric pulls off possibly the best villain performance in a film since Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor. It’s splendidly over the top and simply deserves to be seen.

It’s understandable that The Losers might not have impressed on its release; after all, it just didn’t look like a must-see film. Looks can definitely be deceiving, as you’ll soon learn when you watch it at home. And before too long you’ll soon realise which team are the real losers.