The Losers (Movie Review)

*Updated December 2025

An action film with some heart, family values, and a Latino flair is the way I would describe WB’s film The Losers. The genres, though, do not necessarily fit well together. It is a fun movie, but somewhere along the way it goes through a bit of an identity crisis. Does it want to be an action film or a family film? The producers seem to think both.

Based on the 1970 comic book of the same name, The Losers is about five members of a CIA black ops team who are betrayed and left for dead. Their mission now is to find out who wanted them killed. This revenge film means well. It has a cast of characters comprised of a diverse and simpatico bunch. Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldaña, Chris Evans, Idris Elba, Columbus Short, Óscar Jaenada, and Jason Patric draw you into them and their plights.

What most vexed me was their jobs. They are killers for the government who have hearts of gold? I am not sure verisimilitude played a role there, or at least, I do not think director Sylvain White pulled it off well. You hate to be gripped into a storyline to then detour somewhere opposite.

It is not good storytelling and it is what happened here. In the end, The Losers is hit and miss, and it has more hits than the latter. You can forgive some of its deficiencies for some laughs and charm and some old PG-13 action. This fits right in with other action movie reviews we have covered recently.

On a side note, just like Fast and Furious, this movie has a very big Latin American feel to it that begins with the opening credits in Bolivia and lasts throughout the ending. Most of the film was shot in Puerto Rico, which we hope they film there much more. Stay for the closing credits, there are some funny sketches that belong to the storyline of the movie.

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