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Seen on: 01/20/2011

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Takers (2010)

Directed by John Luessenhop

Crime

Most recently watched by sensoria

Overview

A seasoned team of bank robbers, including Gordon Jennings, John Rahway, A.J., and brothers Jake and Jesse Attica successfully complete their latest heist and lead a life of luxury while planning their next job. When Ghost, a former member of their team, is released from prison he convinces the group to strike an armored car carrying $20 million. As the “Takers” carefully plot out their strategy and draw nearer to exacting the grand heist, a reckless police officer inches closer to apprehending the criminals.

Rated PG-13 | Length 107 minutes

Actors

Benito Martinez | Steve Harris | Matt Dillon | Paul Walker | Michael Ealy | Zoe Saldana | Erik Stabenau | Hayden Christensen | Marianne Jean-Baptiste | Idris Elba | Jay Hernandez | Chris Brown | Nicholas Turturro | Gideon Emery | Tim Sitarz | Johnathon Schaech | Troy Brenna | Andrew Fiscella | Craig Susser | T.I. | Zulay Henao | Jimmy N. Roberts | Christopher 'Critter' Antonucci | Glynn Turman | Gaius Charles | Lanny Joon | Kelvin Brown | Gino Anthony Pesi | Marcus Young | John Meier | Roman Mitichyan | James C. Lewis | Bobby McLaughlin | Danny Epper | Matthew Taylor | Michael Duisenberg | Nathan Bell | Vladimir Orlov | Trevor Donovan | JoAnna Rhambo | Andrei Runtso | Gokor Chivichyan | Nancy Young | Mike Smith | Vladimir Tevlovski | Will McFadden | Nancy Wetzel | Daniel Stevens | Scott Wilder | Dustin Meier | Jermaine Holt | Terrell Lee | Bryan Ross | Laura-Shay Griffin | Ben Skorstad | Roger Stoneburner | Conrade Gamble | Isa Briones | Harrison Miller | Ashleigh Falls | Bradley Jensen | Natasha Ellie | Karl Knuth | Martin Shuler | Juna Kim | Mike Wood | Noelle Mahasin | Joey DiGiandomenico | Patrick Strickland | Paul Stephen Hubbard

Viewing Notes

I liked this movie a lot, but some criminally bad sound editing decisions in one scene, and some generally cliched bullshit at the end dropped it to just above average.

Takers has one of the best foot chase scenes, hell, one of the best chase scenes period, in it in recent years. The excellently choreographed chase, with some great parkur stunt work, is tense!

There is also what could have been a great action sequence had it not been for the shitty sound editing and the overwrought slo-mo bullshit that sucks all the tension and pacing out of it. It’s too bad, because it was a well sequenced and edited scene otherwise.

Despite these flaws, Takers is definitely worth a watch. It has a crazy cast including Idris Elba (from THE WIRE),Chris Brown (singer, also from STEP UP), Hayden Christensen (after watching him in this you can stop hating him for the STAR WARS prequels), Jay Hernandez, the astonishingly beautiful and woefully underutilized Zoe Saldana (STAR TREK, THE LOSERS, AVATAR), Paul Walker (THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS) in perhaps his best role to date, and Matt Dillon.

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