The Losers (2010)

A team of Army commandos is framed for a crime they did not commit and lay waste to the corrupted CIA spook who did them wrong, going tit-for-tat in a ridiculous CGI-heavy pile-up at the Port of Los Angeles. This is the 2010 summer flick “The A-Team.” It is also the exact same plot of “The Losers,” a gonzo comic book movie that beat “Team” to theaters by a few weeks but still comes out as the weaker link. This lot is headed by Jeffrey Dean Morgan as The Colonel, all grim humor and bad-ass charisma. Jason Patric is the villain -- a wildly cartoonish thug who is so eeeeevil, I wondered if Gary Busey was up for the part. Action is over-the-top and that’s fine, but I never got past the opening tragedy: Two dozen-plus children getting blown to bits. Yes, we get a flaming-torched teddy bear. Zoe Saldana of “Star Trek” co-stars. Journey is a punch line. That’s so new. C