Check out Takers for end of the summer fun. Leave your brain at home.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 11, 2017

| Original Score: C | Feb 18, 2012

A mini-Michael Mann effort populated by one-dimensional clichs.

| Original Score: C | Jun 8, 2011

Laughable subplots about Elba's addicted sister (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) and Dillon's crooked partner (Jay Hernandez) only slow the action, which is all this movie has going for it.

| Jan 3, 2011

Noisily vacant.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 6, 2010

You could write ten thousand words about the outlandish cack-handedness of Takers, but I'll limit myself to just seven. Crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, rubbish.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 3, 2010

A very coarse bit of work.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 1, 2010

The director of Takers, a try-hard heist movie of clomping unoriginality and self-regard, is labouring under the embarrassing delusion that he's Michael Mann.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 30, 2010

Wall-to-wall music, glossy handheld camerawork and frantic editing all conspire to try and make this seem a lot more exciting than the relentlessly unimaginitive script deserves.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 30, 2010

Not terrible, but undemanding.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 29, 2010

It runs the stopwatch on a chase sequence to a comical extreme and takes way, way too long to take its final bow, in the process burning off any residual good will.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 3, 2010

An above-average heist thriller that's undone by poor screenwriting and worse post-production.

| Aug 29, 2010

Director John Luessenhop's aggressive approach to action scenes is frequently inspired.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 28, 2010

With no emotional heft to the performances, it's hard to care whether anyone's dreams are dashed or fulfilled. That leaves the heist itself to compensate, but it only digs deeper into tired action movie cliches.

| Original Score: 2.5/10 | Aug 27, 2010

Takers is a sterling example of how a movie can take a basic, appealing idea and turn it into something that you could easily watch while brushing your teeth, clipping your toenails, plucking your eyebrows.

| Original Score: 4.5/10 | Aug 27, 2010

Someone has to say it, so I will: Shaky cam is out of control.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 27, 2010

Once you get past the recycled quality of the characters and dialogue, the movie has some stylish action sequences and moderately clever plot turns.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 27, 2010

Takers is a slick heist film, but that's all it is.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 27, 2010

I guess the easy place to start here is to call Takers the most derivative and obvious thriller to not go directly to DVD in over a decade.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 27, 2010

Heist movies don't have to include deep characters as long as we understand the function of each team member (The Planner, The Demolitions Expert, et.al.), but all we get from this bunch is That Guy, That Other Guy, and The One with the Hat.

| Aug 27, 2010