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Takers (2010) - Directed by John Luessenhop
"We're takers, gents. That's what we do for a living. We take."
I remember seeing the TV spots for Takers when I was 16. I took interest in one reason alone for it: my dad, who had taken me to see Revenge of the Sith a few years before, said that it looked like Hayden Christensen was actually acting this time. So I was eager to see a fair share of good Christensen acting after being disappointed that he didn't give his role of Anakin Skywalker the talent he and Anakin deserved.
Takers centers around a professional robber who was accidentally left behind by his workmates and did time. Recently released, he gets the group back together for another job, but many of the members are weary of him. Meanwhile, the same two police detectives who brought him in are eyeballing him as well.
And that's pretty much it. When I see a heist movie, I'd like to see personality take its course like it did with George Clooney and his various reasons for the heist in Ocean's Eleven. Instead, the personal and professional lives of both the cops and robbers are just jumbled up and hard to get interested in. The movie is incredibly cliched and hard to get invested in. I admit that I watched this movie over the course of three days, often pausing to go do something else (or even watch another movie).
It's not the worst movie ever, though. Believe it or not, I'm more interested in terrible movies than I am in dull ones. First of all, the action was fine. The camera was often shaky, but when there was something really going down, the camera did its job by doing what it's always been doing. And even though the characters themselves don't have a lot of depth, the acting was fine. I desperately wanted more Hayden Christensen because those small moments of his on-screen were great. He looked like he was enjoying it.
A couple of strengths barely help to save the movie from its jumbled plot and characters, so I wouldn't recommend this movie at all unless for whatever reason you're a Chris Brown fan and want to see him pull of some perfect acting. Otherwise, just don't worry about it. I wouldn't say, "don't bother," just don't worry about it.
"We're takers, gents. That's what we do for a living. We take."
I remember seeing the TV spots for Takers when I was 16. I took interest in one reason alone for it: my dad, who had taken me to see Revenge of the Sith a few years before, said that it looked like Hayden Christensen was actually acting this time. So I was eager to see a fair share of good Christensen acting after being disappointed that he didn't give his role of Anakin Skywalker the talent he and Anakin deserved.
Takers centers around a professional robber who was accidentally left behind by his workmates and did time. Recently released, he gets the group back together for another job, but many of the members are weary of him. Meanwhile, the same two police detectives who brought him in are eyeballing him as well.
And that's pretty much it. When I see a heist movie, I'd like to see personality take its course like it did with George Clooney and his various reasons for the heist in Ocean's Eleven. Instead, the personal and professional lives of both the cops and robbers are just jumbled up and hard to get interested in. The movie is incredibly cliched and hard to get invested in. I admit that I watched this movie over the course of three days, often pausing to go do something else (or even watch another movie).
It's not the worst movie ever, though. Believe it or not, I'm more interested in terrible movies than I am in dull ones. First of all, the action was fine. The camera was often shaky, but when there was something really going down, the camera did its job by doing what it's always been doing. And even though the characters themselves don't have a lot of depth, the acting was fine. I desperately wanted more Hayden Christensen because those small moments of his on-screen were great. He looked like he was enjoying it.
A couple of strengths barely help to save the movie from its jumbled plot and characters, so I wouldn't recommend this movie at all unless for whatever reason you're a Chris Brown fan and want to see him pull of some perfect acting. Otherwise, just don't worry about it. I wouldn't say, "don't bother," just don't worry about it.