The Losers (12, 93 mins, Optimum, DVD £17.99/Blu-ray £23.99)

ELITE Special Forces commander Clay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) survives a mission in the jungles of Bolivia with his team: tech wizard Jensen (Chris Evans), demolitions expert Roque (Idris Elba), transportation operative Pooch (Columbus Short) and long-range eliminations specialist Cougar (Oscar Jaenada). US operative Aisha (Zoe Saldana, pictured right) promises to smuggle the entire squad back onto American soil if they hunt down and kill evil Max (Jason Patric).

Based on the potty-mouthed DC Comics series written by Andy Diggle and illustrated by Jock, Sylvain White’s film embraces a heightened reality with bold, colourful graphics and exaggerated violence, coupled with snappy dialogue lifted from the page by screenwriters Peter Berg and James Vanderbilt. The running time would be trimmer though if director White was more judicious with slow motion sequences.

Wild Target (12, Entertainment In Video, DVD £19.99/Blu-ray £24.99)

ASSASSIN for hire, Victor Maynard (Bill Nighy) is well and truly under the thumb of his mother (Eileen Atkins). He somehow acquires an eager apprentice, Tony (Rupert Grint) and accepts a new job from art-loving gangster Ferguson (Rupert Everett). He has just been duped by reckless, flamboyant and free-spirited thief Rose (Emily Blunt), who has copied a real Rembrandt and attempts to pass off the fake to Ferguson.

Victor sets out to perform the deadly hit in a car park but Rose is simply too lovely to slay. So the wily gun man takes Rose under his wing, protecting her from rival hit man Dixon (Martin Freeman) and Ferguson. Based on Tunisian writer-director Pierre Salvadori’s 1993 comedy of the same name, Wild Target is a breezily enjoyable affair, interspersed with car chases down country lanes in a Mini.

MacGruber (15, Universal, DVD £12.99/Blu-ray £19.99)

SOLDIER of fortune MacGruber (Will Forte) has never recovered from the murder of his wife (Maya Rudolph) at the hands of the dastardly villain, Dieter Von Cunth (Val Kilmer). He’s persduaded to re-enter active service and thwart Von Cunth, who has stolen a nuclear warhead.

Based on a character created by actor Forte on the long-running American television show Saturday Night Live, MacGruber is a poor parody of the TV series MacGyver.