Takers boasts some gripping set pieces and keeps things moving quickly, but its two-dimensional characters, clichéd script, and brazenly derivative plot make it hard to recommend.
Check out Takers for end of the summer fun. Leave your brain at home.
Read full articleLaughable 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.
Read full articleYou 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.
Read full articleThis movie was sewn together from bits and pieces of better movies, and that recycled quality never allows the story to take off.
Read full articleTakers collects massacres with enthusiasm… at the border of abstract surrealism. [Full review in Spanish]
Read full articleWhat starts off as a perfectly good, generic heist movie transitions into a contrived mess of overblown theatrics and predictable character twists.
Read full articleFar too stylish for its own good and filled with dialogue that elicits unintended laughs.
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