I won't go calling this film excellent, but I will say that this film did the job. I guess that after seeing the trailer almost 10 months ago before Armored, I was having high expectations about this movie, and all in all, Takers succeeded them all. Takers basically talks about a group of ''Takers'' (robbers, played by Idris Elba, Paul Walker, Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen and Micheal Ealy) who meet their ex colleague Ghost (T.I.), and Ghost offers them a job that will get them a lot of money. Meanwhile, police officers Jack Welles and Eddie Hatcher (played by Matt Dillon and Jay Hernandez respectively) try to follow their case in order to get them. Basically, it's yet another movie about a robbery gone wrong. Remember, the kind of robbery that's always supposed to go right until everything goes wrong? The cast is, altogether, pretty good. The best performances come from Micheal Ealy, Idris Elba, Jay Hernandez and Paul Walker, at least I found, whereas Hayden Christensen has some good scenes. Chris Brown and T.I. gave some pretty solid performances as well, despite having heard negative comments about them. Chris Brown and T.I. aren't as good as Eminem was in 8 Mile, but their acting was far from horrible. As for Matt Dillon, I felt he was inconsistent. Great in some scenes, and lousy in others. Most of the time however, the scenes in which he was bad was because I felt he had a bit more cheesy dialogue than the other characters.
The script is unfortunately highly original. As a story itself, it isn't all that bad, but we have some characters who are highly underdeveloped with others who are overdeveloped. The action scenes were (generally) pretty well filmed, but the main plot idea is a little...borrowed from many movies we saw before. The scene I felt was the most stupid was when Jake and Jesse go out to kill the cops (or just basically die there). The main idea isn't all stupid but couldn't we just see the actual shootout instead of just a small part of it? Thank God that the shootout in the hotel room was pretty awesome. The dialogue is sometimes cheesy, but then again, how could one not expect that? Cheezy dialogue, cheesy scenes, unoriginal main idea...Definitely, Takers will not be remembered by many people as much more than it is. It's not a film that will be making it's way to the Golden globes or the Oscars, but there is something about this film that I really enjoyed....Maybe it's the fact that I was actually hoping to be entertained, and that totally happened. I'm actually looking forward to buying this one on DVD.
The script is unfortunately highly original. As a story itself, it isn't all that bad, but we have some characters who are highly underdeveloped with others who are overdeveloped. The action scenes were (generally) pretty well filmed, but the main plot idea is a little...borrowed from many movies we saw before. The scene I felt was the most stupid was when Jake and Jesse go out to kill the cops (or just basically die there). The main idea isn't all stupid but couldn't we just see the actual shootout instead of just a small part of it? Thank God that the shootout in the hotel room was pretty awesome. The dialogue is sometimes cheesy, but then again, how could one not expect that? Cheezy dialogue, cheesy scenes, unoriginal main idea...Definitely, Takers will not be remembered by many people as much more than it is. It's not a film that will be making it's way to the Golden globes or the Oscars, but there is something about this film that I really enjoyed....Maybe it's the fact that I was actually hoping to be entertained, and that totally happened. I'm actually looking forward to buying this one on DVD.