THE LOSERS trailer is full of yellow things

THE LOSERS trailer is full of yellow things

Apr 07

 

I sure hope you like the colour yellow, because The Losers appears to have a lot of it: cars, locations, explosions and even lights fill the screen with colours like gold and custard and mustard and … why do those words rhyme? Because they’re both yellow foods? Huh.

The Losers is about a bunch of special-ops soldier-types who get betrayed by their agencies and decide to take revenge. Pretty dull on paper, but it’s the characters that’ll likely sell you, and the actors portraying those characters. Jeffrey Dean Morgan (from Watchmen) heads up the team, with Idris Elba, Columbus Short and Óscar Janaeda filling out the ranks; meanwhile Chris Evans plays (against type) a curiously bespectacled, bright-coloured-shirt-wearing fellow who appears to be the comic relief. Seeing Evans in flexible, self-deprecating roles like in this and Scott Pilgrim Vs The World will be a nice change of pace until Captain America hits screens, that’s for sure. Then there’s Zoe Saldana, from Star Trek (and that other sci-fi film from 2009), who brings suggestive poses, sexy-time and double-entendres to the proceedings. Oh, and Jason Patric shows up as the bad guy, if you’re wondering.

Besides dripping in yellow, The Losers trailer contains a hint of some inventive action scenes, and a glimpse of the kind of sarcastic wit that will be employed in place of character development. Being a comic-book adaptation, we can’t expect too much from The Losers — or can we? Shouldn’t comic-book movies be just as good as any other movie thrown onto a giant silver screen? Unfortunately the trailer for The Losers is so disjointed and discombobulated that it’s hard to tell how well the action and one-liners work in context, so we’ll just have to wait and see what it’s like when it hits screens in a few weeks’ time.

The Losers comes out in the UK in just two days (crikey!) on the 9th of April, 2010; US release set for the 23rd of April, with Australia again lagging behind with a 20th of May release. Directed by Sylvain White, based on the Vertigo and DC comics.