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The film adaptation of ''[[
Eight years, and "80 successful missions", later, a complicated series of events put them in a very delicate operation to recover U.S. minting plates and several million dollars printed by them. Upon a successful completion, their commanding officer General Morrison is killed by a car bomb and the plates stolen, along with the money being torched.
Because of how classified the mission was, Morrison was the only one who could verify their story and they effectively look like bank robbers and conspirators with a rival mercenary group. They are charged with war crimes, stripped of their rank and sent to prison. But even that isn't enough to stop them, as six months later they break out of prison with the help of a [[CIA]] operative and set out to clear their name. This involves tracking down the location of the plates, the PMC leader Pike who framed them, plenty of collateral damage and the [[A-Team Montage]].
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* [[3D Movie]]: Murdock gets to watch one, along with the other inhabitants of the psych ward he's in. {{spoiler|That 3D is really damn realistic, what with the Humvee smashing through the wall and dragging in Murdock. The 3-D glasses also make it look like they're really being shot at.}}
** {{spoiler|The Humvee [[Stealth Pun|broke the fourth wall]], you might say.}}
* [[Action Prologue]] - Also explains how the A-Team comes together, detailing Hannibal recruiting BA and Murdock to rescue Face.
* [[Actor Allusion]]: There are a couple of nods to Sharlto Copley's South African nationality. Observable when Murdock's blabbering in a South African accent early in the film to get past journalists. He also speaks Swahili at one point.
** There's the part where {{spoiler|Hannibal lures Lynch into a trap in a container, reminiscent of ''[[The Dark Knight Saga|Batman Begins]]'' where Ras also compares fighting styles they're both using on each other}}.
** The "3D" film at a psychiatric hospital plays the show's theme tune, and one of the names of its opening credits read "Reginald Barclay" -- referencing Dwight Shultz's role as Lt. Barclay in ''[[Star Trek:
** Less elaborate than the above, but when the team had to travel through customs disguised in hilarious ethnic gear, Hannibal basically went through as... {{spoiler|[[Liam Neeson]]}}.
* [[Affably Evil]]: {{spoiler|Lynch, a friendly joking man who could have easily been a good member of the A-Team... if not for the whole "backstab you for some money" deal and his overwhelming sense of entitlement.}}
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* [[All Part of the Show]]: The 3D film sent to Murdock in the psyche hospital.
* [[Almost Kiss]] - Between Face and Sosa... more than once.
* [[And the Adventure Continues...]]: {{spoiler|At the end, despite all they did, the A-Team are still wanted fugitives and are on the run from the law.}}
** Could also count as a potential [[Sequel Hook]].
* [[Arch Enemy]]: Did anyone else get this vibe between B.A. and Pike?
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* [[A-Team Montage]]: You knew this had to happen... and since the movie's a little over two hours, we get two of them, and two others are a blend of planning and executing the plan instead of a straight montage.
* [[Attack Drone]]: The Reaper UAVs that our heroes have to fight in German airspace.
* [[As Long
* [[Badass]]: The entire team. FULL STOP.
** Sosa too.
** Pike also, villain or not. He {{spoiler|nearly kills the A-Team by catching on to what they're doing and wrecks the plan with a rocket launcher.}}
* [[Badass Boast]]: Hannibal's line when he's in prison:
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** [[Trailers Always Lie|One ad for the movie changed this]] to "Give my team an hour, we're unbeatable."
** Brock Pike{{spoiler|, before he puts down two incompetent rogue CIA agents and proceeds to wreck Face's plan}}:
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* [[Band of Brothers]]
* [[Beyond the Impossible]]: Coming up with crazy plans that shouldn't even be physically possible is the A-Team's entire shtick.
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* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: Murdock is batshit insane, but he's the best goddamn pilot you'll ever find.
* [[But This Is Ridiculous]] - Lampshaded constantly, often annoying Baracus, Face, or Sosa, and the reason why and how {{spoiler|Lynch}} breaks them out of prison.
* [[California Doubling]]: The aerial shot of what is supposed to be [http://de.academic.ru/pictures/dewiki/70/Frankfurt_am_Main_Hauptbahnhof_von_oben.jpg Frankfurt am Main central station] is instead one of [http://bilder.bild.de/BILD/regional/koeln/aktuell/2010/08/16/riesen-panne-in-hollywood-streifen/mfbq-koeln-a-team__17313788__MBQF-1281907382,templateId=renderScaled,property=Bild,width=465.jpg Cologne central station]{{Dead link}} and happens to show the Cologne Cathedral, quite possibly the single most recognizable landmark in all of Germany, especially for any German.
* [[The Cameo]]: Director and co-writer Joe Carnahan appears as the man who meets Hannibal, Face and B.A. in Mexico outside the hospital Murdock is being held.
** [[Mad Men|Jon Hamm]] as {{spoiler|The second Lynch}}.
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* [[Delicious Distraction]]: One sure way to get B.A. off your case, especially if you're Murdock, is to give him curry tapenade.
** And don't forget the toasties!
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Kevlar is a composite material. It doesn't melt.
* [[Do a Barrel Roll]]: Murdock during both airborne [[Chase Scene|Chase Scenes]], in aircraft ''that really shouldn't be doing that''.
** Also, a more literal example near the beginning, which ends with Face throwing up. More of a tire roll, really.
* [[Dropped a Bridge
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* [[Enhance Button]]: Although it is not shown exactly ''how'' he enhanced it, Hannibal has a surveillance photo of Pike in much higher definition than Lynch. Also invoked later when Sosa could reconstruct Lynch's face from a jammed CCTV footage, albeit after a substantial wait. The photo was hardly pristine, either; Lynch's face is clear enough, but it's still grainy and the colors are way off.
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: The entire male cast.
* [[Every Car Is a Pinto]]
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** If you pay attention to his arrogance, his penchant for ogling women, and his generally empty charm, Lynch may be this for Face. At the end, it's even revealed that Lynch is {{spoiler|an agent, but also technically a [[Con Man]]}}, like Face. But unlike Face, his [[Evil Plan]] cohorts {{spoiler|want to cut him out (since the rogue CIA agent has no intent whatsoever to reward them for their work)}} and women don't really want anything to do with him.
* [[Expy]]: The Black Forest private military corporation is an obvious analogue of the infamous Blackwater PMC.
* [[Face Death
* [[Fan Service]]: Face spends an inordinate amount of time with his shirt open--or [[Shirtless Scene|missing entirely]].
* [[Fast Roping]]: {{spoiler|Hannibal}} does this {{spoiler|one-handed from the 30th floor of a building while shooting with the other hand. Baracus, on the other hand, drops from a flying fox right onto the top of a speeding truck}}.
* [[Flatline Plotline]]: This is {{spoiler|the setup for Hannibal's prison escape.}}
* [[Flipping the Bird]]: {{spoiler|In an [[Ironic Echo]], done by Lynch's assistant (who is constantly irritated at Lynch's stupid entendres), and then done to the A-Team when Lynch is caught (who is constantly irritated at... duhhhhhhhhhhh)}}
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* [[Genre Savvy]]: Sosa is this compared to her incredibly [[Genre Blind]] lackeys, to the point where she tells them to assume that the A-Team knows more than they do at all times.
** {{spoiler|Lynch is ''just'' Genre Savvy enough to know that he can disrupt whatever plan the team has in the climax by having the [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] Pike on his side. Not enough to actually ''listen'' to him all the time, however.}}
* [[Good
** Face actually gets into trouble in the beginning because of this... and has a [[Luxury Prison Suite]] by seducing the female guards.
* [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking]]: [[Colonel Badass|Hannibal]] [[Cultured Badass|loves a fine cigar.]] {{spoiler|He's [[Badass Bookworm|able to calculate how much tetrodotoxin to put in his favorite Cuban]] to render him unconscious long enough to feign death and escape, with [[Ludicrous Precision]]}}.
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* [[Handsome Lech]]: Face.
* [[High Altitude Battle]]: Do we have to tell you?
* [[Hoist
* [[Important Haircut]]: Played with. While in prison, B.A. let his hair grow out to distance himself from his past. When broken out of prison {{spoiler|he was given clippers by Face ''specifically'' so he could return to the mohawk, but he decided on just a close buzz cut just because of his new outlook. Just before the final mission, and after a talk with Hannibal on fighting for your faith, he cuts it back to the mohawk.}}
* [[Insignia Rip Off Ritual]]
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* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: {{spoiler|It looks like Pike is the [[Big Bad]], except he's [[The Dragon]] to Morrison, and both of them, combined, are arguably [[The Dragon]] for Lynch.}}
* [[Marquee Alter Ego]]: Sort of. When the team disguises themselves to get through seaport security, Hannibal is disguised as, basically, {{spoiler|Liam Neeson.}}
* [[Mathematician's Answer]]:
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'''Gilbert:''' [[Male Gaze|Forward!]] }}
* [[Meaningful Echo]]: "I love it when a plan comes together."
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* [[Not Quite Dead]]: {{spoiler|General Morrison, who is ultimately [[Killed Off for Real]]}}.
* [[Obfuscating Insanity]]: Murdock...
* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: Oh, pretty much the entire US government.
* [[Oh Crap]]: The drug dealer in the opening scene when he realizes that {{spoiler|he's over American soil}}.
** {{spoiler|Face and Hannibal}} when they realize that {{spoiler|B.A. and Murdock accidentally switched passports at the customs desk.}}
** {{spoiler|Agent Lynch}}, when he is addressed {{spoiler|by his [[I Know Your True Name|real name]].}}
* [[Omniglot]]:
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'''Murdock''': "You don't?" }}
* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: Sharlto Copley does a fairly admirable job of holding his vaguely Southern accent, but he tends to switch around accents a lot. It does work for the character, though, seeing as he is insane and an omniglot, and a lot of the more noticeable ones ("Oh you gorgeous rustbucket, did you miss your daddy!") were on purpose.
** Yeah that's just what Murdock does. [[Dwight Schultz]] did it all the time in the original show.
** Liam Neeson has a few moments of this as well, mostly when he's saying anything with an "oo" sound, like "you".
* [[Outside Ride]]
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* [[Promoted Fanboy]]: Sharlto Copley, [http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/1886/babysharlto.jpg full stop.]
* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: {{spoiler|Lynch is}} a mild type C; his loose attitude makes him come off like he's a 16 year old with the CIA's car keys. He leers at his hot assistant, brags about the CIA's rules being cooler than DoD's, and gets really excited about "awesome" combat incidents, which he compares to video games (see [[Shout-Out]] below).
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'''{{spoiler|Lynch}}''': Broadsword, did you come up with that? That's awesome. '[[Where Eagles Dare|Broadsword]].' '''Broad''sword.' }}
* [[Reality Ensues]]: {{spoiler|The team catches Lynch and clears their names, and are promptly arrested for breaking out of prison.}}
* [[Recoil Boost]]: With the tank's main gun.
* [[
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: "They are the best, and they specialize in the ridiculous!"
** The [[Putting the Band Back Together|entire sequence where they break out of prison]], culminating in the team ''flying a tank''.
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* [[The Reveal]]: The Arab assisting Pike is actually {{spoiler|General Morrison}}. Cue the [[Mass "Oh Crap"]] moment from the cast.
** This movie gives an entirely plausible reason for B.A.'s fear of flying and why he hates Murdock so much... [[Drives Like Crazy|Murdock's piloting]].
* [[Run for
** And all of that went according to his plan {{spoiler|made after Face botched the previous one by getting caught in bed with Tuco's wife}}.
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: {{spoiler|Inverted. Murdock thinks he might have gone ''sane'' as a result of Face's plan.}}
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* [[Soft Glass]]: Averted as B.A. only dents a glass pane after landing on it and has to shoot it.
* [[Soft Water]]: Terminal velocity fall in a tank with only one intact chute? Aim for the water.
* [[Spanner in
** {{spoiler|Pike wasn't expected to get his neck cracked, either.}}
** {{spoiler|Hannibal wasn't expecting Lynch's double-cross either.}}
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** And it is [[So Cool Its Awesome|awesome]].
* [[Technical Pacifist]]: B.A. becomes this for a while, but Hannibal uses a Gandhi quote (ironically) to convince B.A. to be willing to kill again:
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'''Hannibal''': "It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."
'''B.A.''': Who said that?
'''Hannibal''': Same guy. }}
** {{spoiler|Comes back when he kills Pike with a piledriver.}}
* [[Ten
* [[The Mountains of Illinois]]: There are no mountains near Frankfurt, Germany.
* [[Theme Tune Cameo]]: Several times, both the original music and new versions.
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* [[Vomit Discretion Shot]]: "This isn't gonna taste good!"
** Leading to [[Squick]] when Face is making out with the Mexican drug lord's wife they rescued after they pull him into the van.
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* [[Watch the Paint Job]]: Very early on, {{spoiler|B.A.'s GMC is wrecked by a Air Conditioning block dropped by Murdock.}}
** And earlier, {{spoiler|getting shot by Hannibal doesn't annoy him. ''His blood staining the seats from getting shot annoys him.''.}}
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