Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Asad Almond A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

nadinesalakovv 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.

musicreporter-1 I rarely take the time to write a review on IMDb but this one sucks so bad - after a decent start - I had to do it."Takers" starts off promising with decent cinematography and sharp detail but soon enough there's too much of "I've seen this before" feeling.The pace is fast and there's plenty of action but "cool" gangsters moving to loud "cool" music has been so overdone it seems the director couldn't come up with any original ideas so he felt it OK to just copy elements from "Heat," "The Italian Job," and others already mentioned elsewhere. Sad.Only Idris Elba and Matt Dillon pull their weight in the acting department. The other "actors" - especially the rappers - all come across like rank amateurs, unable to deliver any credibility. Wanted to turn it off by the 60 minute mark but forced myself to see through the end. Will NOT be watching this trash again.A lot of flash here but little energy. Dull, predictable, boring and forgettable. True fans of heist films will do better with a rerun of "Heat."

Jackson Booth-Millard 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!

bowmanblue This film has all the makings of a decent film – reasonable actors, a bit of action and some slick direction, but, for some reason, it just never seems to attain the right balance.It's about a gang of five robbers who rob places. And, unlike other films where the 'heroes' are thieves, these guys simply aren't that likable. They steal from the rich and that's about it. Therefore we can't really root for them. This would be okay, if it didn't feel like they were trying to be portrayed as decent people (which they're blatantly not!).Then, on the other hand, we have the two police officers who are hot on their heels. It would be easy to make them the good guys and the robbers the bad guys. However, these two aren't much more likable than their criminal counterparts. Therefore we have no one really to root for. Sure, they all look cool, but we still don't like them.Plus the first hour is pretty dull. I was getting quite bored, but at least the last act did save it. The heist is pretty exciting and it saves all the best parts for last.It's nothing special, but it's slightly better than a lot of its contemporaries. If you're in the mood for a light sort of heist movie then this is it, but I doubt anyone will remember it in a few weeks time! http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/