The Take

The movie sweeps you along with a brisk pace and even dashes of humor.

It’s a bit silly maybe, with a plot that requires you to overlook the implausibility of a certain smartphone with no passcode protection. But there is a nifty premise.

It’s Watkins’ lean, keen instinct for choreographing and cutting action set pieces that keeps Bastille Day afloat.

Elba’s action credentials are well-established, so there’s little for him to prove here. The fights are convincing enough, even if the plot is all coincidence, conspiracy and con jobs.

For a film so interested in the public's malleability, The Take isn't particularly good at controlling its own audience.

Taken as a transient, high-paced and familiar rock 'em, sock' em kind of film, it packs quite a punch.

The Take is just really lousy.

Pros: Actions were stunning & satisfying Brutal police, handsome thief and a pretty girl Decent pacing in story progression Cons: Predictable and cliche stories , nothing groundbreaking Despite there is cons, but i think this movies deserved more attention and likes. Definitely worth to watch if you like actions movie, but if you are expecting complicated stories , then pls Fk off !

No sabía que película ver y tenía no mucho tiempo y decidí ver 'The Take'. Y para ir al grano, me pareció un peliculón, ¿Porqué? Pues porque está bien construida, mantiene la tensión e interés hasta el final y sobre todo por los actores y la relaccón que se establece entre los dos protas. Hablando de actores, Idris Elba, imperial, sublime, este señor se come la pantalla ( ya vereis que bien lo voy a pasar viendole en 'The wire'). Y un muy muy buen Richard Madden que es el complemento ideal para Elba. Es una película puro cine negro que no tiene ni una sola moñería en todo el largometraje y si que tiene mucha acción para una película de este estilo. En definitiva, no es una película que sea nada de otro mundo pero si que cumple, sobradamente, su función, que es la de entretener y hacer pasar un buen rato disfrutando de actores como Idris Elba. ¿Qué más se puede pedir?. Un notable, 7.

Don't expect too much about this movie but if you like action movies I think it's not a waste of time watching it though to my taste I would have preferred more action scenes.

One wrong move made a small time thief a target. The first thing is this film came at the worst time in the history of France. If it was set in elsewhere in the world would have had less issue, but the Paris terror attack and this theme had lots of similarity. I mean it was nothing to do with the incident, but the contents are very impactful. Which also might be the reason for the film not doing well. I did not enjoy much this film, for me it was the story that turned me off. It was sympathetic to terrorists in the first half, so I completely hated that part, and then the last 30 or so minutes it got better. I mean not awesome or like that, but just good. Directed by 'Eden Lake' famed director. Another very familiar story, but altered like it was for the first time in a film. So most of the parts are predictable, but one twist during the beginning of the third act made it look good. Amazing pace, it just keeps getting bigger and bigger going forward. But as we know, those developments were so clichéd. All the actors were okay, and it has some decent stunts as well. I think it is a good timepass film and nothing else.. 6/10

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