Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
positive
6(30%)
mixed
10(50%)
negative
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75
A crackling crime drama assembled from a scrap heap of hoary cliches, Takers proves that everything old can sometimes really be new again.
75
The style feels a little like that of the recently departed TV show "24," albeit without Kiefer Sutherland, the split screens, and the ticking clock.
70
The stunt work is amazing, and the pace is breathless enough to keep one watching right up to the somewhat ambiguous conclusion.
67
The heist movie genre gets a hip-hop makeover in Takers, a movie loaded with as much style as ammunition.
63
Noisy, unsubtle, but it gets the job done.
63
You could make a worse choice for a late- summer popcorn movie than Takers, a Michael Mann-ish heist thriller with a pulse-pounding foot chase and some terrific stunt work offsetting its hackneyed plot and dialogue.
60
The casting, from lead roles to supporting, is uniformly terrific.
50
A respectable but watered-down heist movie that, given the Los Angeles setting, either owes a debt to director Michael Mann or suggests an unusually violent and action-packed episode of "Entourage."
50
The performers are given stock types to play, and Elba and Dillon, at least, can do a little with that.
50
The dialogue is clichéd and laughable. It's a film far more concerned with style - architectural, vehicular and wardrobe-related - than substance.
