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Takers (2010)

Directed by John Luessenhop

Crime

Most recently watched by schofizzy

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

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

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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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