Hits every beat of the formula at just the wrong time, going through the motions and everyone's phoning it in. The only thing missing was the "hand over your gun and badge" scene. Never seen a film cast with so many people who can't act.
Takers is a heist movie with an appropriately generic title. It's all formula and clichés. It does have some energetic action and a couple of interesting schemes, but even though I'm a big fan of the genre, it doesn't amount to a whole lot. It wastes a pretty good cast that includes Idris Elba, Paul Walker and Zoe Saldana, giving the various characters subplots, but only stock personalities. Because I'm not sure we ever care about any of the characters, those subplots merely act as distractions. Sometimes they affect the plot and create complications, sometimes they don't add much of anything. Case in point the bit about police corruption Matt Dillon's detective must contend with while tracking the bank robbers. What's the point of that? It's like the script knows we should care about the characters and wants to pull at the heart strings, but doesn't understand how exactly. Already, I've started to forget the details; soon, I won't remember this film at all.
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MrArmistice
Hits every beat of the formula at just the wrong time, going through the motions and everyone's phoning it in. The only thing missing was the "hand over your gun and badge" scene. Never seen a film cast with so many people who can't act.Siskoid
Takers is a heist movie with an appropriately generic title. It's all formula and clichés. It does have some energetic action and a couple of interesting schemes, but even though I'm a big fan of the genre, it doesn't amount to a whole lot. It wastes a pretty good cast that includes Idris Elba, Paul Walker and Zoe Saldana, giving the various characters subplots, but only stock personalities. Because I'm not sure we ever care about any of the characters, those subplots merely act as distractions. Sometimes they affect the plot and create complications, sometimes they don't add much of anything. Case in point the bit about police corruption Matt Dillon's detective must contend with while tracking the bank robbers. What's the point of that? It's like the script knows we should care about the characters and wants to pull at the heart strings, but doesn't understand how exactly. Already, I've started to forget the details; soon, I won't remember this film at all.halftome
it was entertaining, good action scenes.-TJ-
It's aight, its an entertaining heist movieth14
I have seen far worse...fjcaetano
I refuse to comment this.Shazaaaam
Hollywood continues to waste Idris Elba.