Oliver and director of photography Tristan Whitman have created an excellent look, using a bleached-out colour palette to good advantage.
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06/14/08
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Take (2008)
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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:12
Rotten:15
Average Rating:5.1/10
Consensus: A story of redemption held together with flashbacks, Take has moments of emotional intensity, but is ultimately undone by preachiness.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Jul 18, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: Take occurs over two days – one day in the present and one day in the past. In the present, Ana drives through the desert to witness the execution of the man who has dominated her life for the... [More]
Starring: Minnie Driver, Jeremy Renner, Bobby Coleman, David Denman
Director: Charles Oliver
Reviews for Take
This is an uneven directorial debut -- but not an unaccomplished one. Oliver is a name to look out for -- it would be great to see what would happen if he worked with someone else's script.
08/13/08
This melodrama about capital punishment has no shades of gray, only beige.
07/24/08
Charles Oliver's directing debut, Take, unfolds in sun-baked Southwestern locations, but it's a dreary affair all the same.
07/25/08
Oliver wants to defend restorative justice, but his interest in this form of victim-offender mediation registers only as an afterthought.
07/16/08
Top CriticStylistically as well as thematically complex.
08/13/08
Clean but adult-themed movie that takes an intense look at extreme forgiveness and restorative justice.
08/13/08
Resides in the same lives-intersect-through-tragedy wheelhouse as 21 Grams and Monster's Ball, without those films' romantic underpinnings or powerhouse performances.
07/24/08
A heartfelt plea for penal reform.
07/13/08
This sullen dramatic thriller is introspective to the point of being navel-gazing. And its up-to-interpretation form of 'conclusion' is fairly pretentious.
09/12/08
It's like a full-length public service announcement.
07/18/08
Dramatically, however, Take consistently works, and, with such a story, that's an amazing thing.
07/18/08
Top CriticRefreshingly ambitious and thoughtfully constructed.
07/16/08
A woefully earnest indie about a crime and its aftermath.
07/18/08
Top CriticOliver's film manages to grapple with some knotty questions about justice, even if it is not nearly as bold or ironic as Lee Chang-dong's "Secret Sunshine"
08/13/08
A frantic mother and a desperate criminal cross paths with devastating results in first-time writer and director Charles Oliver's emotionally charged drama.
07/18/08
A dreadfully misguided movie whose story of redemption is utterly irredeemable.
08/15/08
While Take has a few moments of eye-rolling absurdity, the film has a way of slithering under your skin and staying there.
07/16/08
If there is anything the cinema needed less than another angst-ridden, cross-cutting tragedy about crime, fate, memory and redemption, it�s the kind shot in an ugly monochromatic palette like Take.
07/18/08
Oliver's climactic twist merely nullifies any engagement with the characters' prior plights.
07/14/08
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