When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

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.

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!

TAKERS is a repackaging of HEAT for the young, urban, male crowd. This film tries so hard to be hip that it hurts - it's obviously targeted at a black demographic with its casting of various uninteresting rappers-turned-actors and the like - and yet it plays out a tired old story which has been told time and time again. It's hard to know what's more disappointing here, the clichéd story or the entirely unremarkable direction.The story features a couple of weary cops (a tired-looking Matt Dillon and a 'remember him?' Jay Hernandez from HOSTEL) as they track down a large gang of robbers planning to carry out their latest audacious heist. All of the crime and heist clichés are present and correct here, but the characters aren't; the team of scriptwriters fail to make anybody in the least bit likable, so you just can't muster up the enthusiasm to care about what happens.Paul Walker's here in a minor bit of tokenism to draw in FAST AND FURIOUS viewers. Hayden Christensen (STAR WARS: REVENGE OF THE SITH) shows up, but has such a lack of presence that I didn't realise it was him until late on in the proceedings. The best performance goes to Idris Elba as one of the gang members, but he's given so little to work with that you wonder why he showed up. TAKERS is an example of Hollywood cookie-cutter movie-making at its worst.

This century has seen a large number of heist movies, and it seems that all new angles have been already exploited and many movies are largely based on clichés and expected turns. So is mostly the movie in question, being a typical US movie, but with a British-style ending... The tensions are still up high, there are lots of compulsory action thriller elements and most of the latter are thrilling to watch (although their pace and length is uneven and plausibility is questionable).Level of the cast, however, is very floating, as for the leading actors, only Matt Dillon as Jack Welles and Idris Elba as Gordon Cozier are up to the scratch (additionally, there are some good supporting actors), the rest are nothing special, and the phenomenon of e.g. Hayden Christensen has always been a mystery to me...Anyway, if you like thrillers where pondering and action take turns, then Takers will be okay at least. Otherwise, the imaginary list called "heist movies" include dozens of far better creations.