Takers (2010)

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

This movie about professional bank robbers is very interesting. I've seen this flick a few time before in the past, and i casually started streaming this on Netflix tonight simply because i couldn't find anything else to watch and i found this film riveting, i couldn't stop watching. Of all the times I've watched this film I haven't enjoyed this movie as much as i have tonight and i believe Rewatching films is a good thing because you miss things that you didn't catch before and / or for reasons unknown - you simply enjoy a film the more you Rewatch it.Takers is a fast-paced heist flick. I don't usually watch heist films because they are overrated, but Takers is good to watch if you can't find anything else to stream. The characters are what they are. I don't think the viewers need to like these characters, and i don't think that we need to hate them, it's simply a movie literally about cops and robbers. There's plenty of action, decent performances, and a great film score composed by Paul Haslinger. The best scene of the entire movie in my opinion is the chase scene in the mall with Chris Brown. The ambiguous ending about whether Idris Elba and Matt Dillons' character's will survive their injuries could drive you crazy, but if you just look at this film for what it is which is a couple of hours of entertainment, you can overlook what the Director John Luessenhop is trying to do with that ending.

Takers (2010): Dir: John Luessenhop / Cast: Matt Dillon, Idris Elba, Jay Hernandez, Paul Walker, Zoe Saldana: Well crafted bank robbery action film about dominance. It regards five criminals who plan and strike their target but their final heist halts with consequence. Matt Dillon plays a cop and father who investigates the latest heist while his partner is caught on camera committing theft. Idris Elba plays one of the criminals dealing with his sister's drug issues while hoping to grant her desire to leave for home. Chris Brown makes a great impression as one of the criminals who left prison with another heist in mind. Paul Walker also stars as one of the contacts. Dillon delivers his best performance since Crash as a cop struggling with his partner's criminal double life as well as trying to be a father and not being there enough. Jay Hernandez plays Dillon's partner who is criminally guilty and will conclude to a dead end. Idris Elba and Paul Walker also give credible performances as criminals who engage in the fatalities of crime while also reaping its so-called rewards. Zoe Saldana graces the screen becomes entwined in a risky romantic relationship within the group. While the ending may poise issues regarding right and wrong director John Luessenhop does an outstanding job at presenting a crime don't pay message of greed. It all seems fail safe in the planning stages but hindsight is 20 / 20 in that the disaster is never avoidable once the plan is in full effect. In the end this is a well crafted film where the only takers are those anticipating their own downfall early. Score: 9 / 10

I saw this film listed in the television schedule, it sounded like your typical cop-criminal crime movie, but the cast list was good enough for me, so I decided to give it a go. Basically a team of five exceptional organised bank robbers, led by Gordon Jennings (Idris Elba), consisting of John Rahway (Paul Walker), A.J. (Hayden Christensen), and brothers Jake (Michael Ealy) and Jesse (Chris Brown) Attica, have successfully carried out several bank heists with perfect execution, leaving not a single clue for police to capture them. The "takers" treat each bank robbery as a business plan, planning each job with precision and being extremely to not leave any evidence behind, they keep the money clean, and they lay low for a year between jobs to keep away police attention. The team, with former member Ghost (Tip 'T.I.' Harris), decide to pull of one last heist, to be their biggest score, $20 million, with an armoured car, but they cannot use meticulous planning because of the short time frame to do the job, and the large cash amount that will split between them. But with the grand heist approaching they have trouble, reckless police officer Jack Welles (Matt Dillon) is getting closer to apprehending them, going through CCTV footage from a previous bank robbery. He gets lucky when he recognises one of the criminal's hand signals, spotting them on the street, while with his daughter in the car, the band of thieves finally make a major mistake, and it looks like the police have their opportunity to catch them. Also starring Jay Hernandez as Eddie Hatcher, Zoë Saldana as Lilli, Johnathon Schaech as Scott, Broadchurch's Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Naomi, Steve Harris as Lt. Carver, Gaius Charles as Max, Gideon Emery as Sergei, Zulay Henao as Monica, Glynn Turman as Chief Detective Duncan, Nicholas "Nick" Turturro as Franco Dalia, Isa Briones as Sunday, Andrei Runtso as Constantine and Vladimir Tevlovski as Ethan. Elba does well as the British robbers leader, Walker does well also as second in command of the crooks, and Dillon is good as the obsessive cop who will do anything to track and capture the gang of swindlers, this is nothing new really, a lot of predictable moments, but you cannot help but engage with both the police and criminal characters, their missions and how they will conclude, the best moments are of course the chase and robbery sequences, all in all it's not a bad action crime drama. Worth watching!

One of the worst films i have ever watched, just awful. The acting was confusing to me. I couldn't tell if they were acting so poorly on purpose. I don't understand how they showed such a awful film in the theaters. The only good part about the film was talking about with other people who watched it as well. It was good conversation to talk about how it was so bad. Most people I talked to turned it off. I couldn't stop watching it. I don't think I would have enjoyed this film even if I saw it when I was 12 years old. I would hope they are going to make a sequel for this film. The sequel should be all women this time playing the takers.