- 8
...a diversionary activity. It's trash so compacted it glows.
—Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly
- 8
Pretty much everything you could have hoped for in an A-Team movie, this big-screen update of the '80s TV show hits all its marks.
—Luke Y. Thompson E!
- 7
...remembers to entertain, albeit in a hilarious, hyper-violent action flick manner.
—Bill Gibron filmcritic.com
- 7
...a perfectly entertaining all-American summer blockbuster...
—John DeVore Premiere
- 6
...works moderately well as the equivalent of a mindless B-movie...
—Brian Lowry Variety
- 6
It's big, loud, ludicrous and edited into visual incomprehension. But pity the fool who lets that stand in the way of enjoying The A-Team...
—Peter Travers Rolling Stone
- 6
...until a leaden third act, it is reasonably entertaining...
—Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune
- 5
...an overlong, overblown and utterly forgettable big-screen reboot...
—Lou Lumenick New York Post
- 4
The A-Team is an incomprehensible mess with the 1980s TV show embedded inside.
—Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times
- 4
...there's nothing exciting about this awful, over-the-top reboot. There is, however, plenty of frenetic action of the sort that's delivered so speedily that instead of quickening our pulses, it makes our eyes glaze.
—Claudia Puig USA Today
- 4
...the raucous, winking big-screen version of the raucous, winking small-screen 1980s television show...
—Manohla Dargis New York Times
- 4
The film's featherweight tone and self-conscious excess would be a lot more palatable if everyone didn't seem so insufferably pleased with themselves. The film acts as if it's won the race before the starting gun has even been fired.
—Nathan Rabin Onion AV Club
- 4
...yet another steroid-pumped thrill ride targeting young males who want something else from life besides steel-cage mixed-martial arts matches on cable.
—Peter Rainer Christian Science Monitor
- 3
...a soulless, sloppy, smirky rerun...
—Robert Wilonsky LA Weekly
- 3
...a soulless, sloppy, smirky rerun...
—Robert Wilonsky Village Voice
- 3
Overly long, over-complicated and overflowing with what sounds like billions of bullets and beaucoup broken glass, this film version of the hit 1980s TV series about soldiers of fortune is an underwhelming experience.
—Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times
- 2
The film lurches from one action sequence to another, with little connection between the sequences. The characters move directly from small to big screen with new actors, of course, but little else changed including their famous catchphrases. So the screenwriting as such has been reduced to storyboards, stunt rigging and visual effects.
—Kirk Honeycutt Hollywood Reporter
- 2
If the television version of The A-Team attracted a wide audience of all ages drawn in by the group's ingenuity and the program's low-key vibe, then [director] Carnahan's big-budget rethink is strictly for little boys.
—Andrew Schenker Slant Magazine