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Laughable subplots about Elba's addicted sister (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) and Dillon's crooked partner (Jay Hernandez) only slow the action, which is all this movie has going for it.
as long as you understand exactly what kind of hack cinema you are getting into, Takers can be pretty fun.
With no emotional heft to the performances, it's hard to care whether anyone's dreams are dashed or fulfilled. That leaves the heist itself to compensate, but it only digs deeper into tired action movie cliches.
Someone has to say it, so I will: Shaky cam is out of control.
Once you get past the recycled quality of the characters and dialogue, the movie has some stylish action sequences and moderately clever plot turns.
Takers is a slick heist film, but that's all it is.
A mini-Michael Mann effort populated by one-dimensional clichés.
No one's asking a low-priority contemporary robbery movie to be Rififi, but there's such a thing as striving for some kind of quality that will set you apart from the anonymous pack. And no one thought to do that here.
Not even a good effort from Matt Dillon -- who seems to play the hard-done-by cop/security guard for the umpteenth time here -- can provide this stodgy outing with the caffeine kick it is sorely in need of.
The film borrows from dozens of classic heist pictures, but adds very little fresh, original or exciting to the mix.
Mindless mayhem perfect for fans of pyrotechnics for pyrotechnics sake!
Mindless mayhem perfect for fans of pyrotechnics for pyrotechnics sake.
A consistently unwatchable actioner...
Melting pot multicultural heist mayhem that would self-destruct a Tea Party convention, Takers gives great slickly conceived action. But the crowded cast of teflon coated conspirators and preposterous scenarios, make LA more like an Afghan war zone.
Borrows from its' genre without embarassing itself.
It all crumbles into a series of chaotic gun battles filled with shaky camera moves and excessive noise.
Marks the on-screen collision of Hayden Christensen and Paul Walker, two actors so charmless and wooden this reviewer feared their combined presence would result in the creation of a charisma black hole that could wipe out the universe.
An empty-headed heist movie which makes no effort to endear us to the slick gangsters or the police pursuing them.
You could write ten thousand words about the outlandish cack-handedness of Takers, but I'll limit myself to just seven. Crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, rubbish.
There's nothing particularly wrong with Takers, but very little that's right.
A very coarse bit of work.
A slickly satisfying genre exercise with sufficient thrills, spills and frills to keep you hooked.
The director of Takers, a try-hard heist movie of clomping unoriginality and self-regard, is labouring under the embarrassing delusion that he's Michael Mann.
Wall-to-wall music, glossy handheld camerawork and frantic editing all conspire to try and make this seem a lot more exciting than the relentlessly unimaginitive script deserves.
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