For best action movies ever, Takes was like a shorthanded version of Heat that Michael Mann did some years back with the slickness of a heist film, but even the remake of The Italian Job was so much better than Takers. It’s all gloss without ever going any further than the surface. Now we love films that are just fun shoot em ups like The Expendibles, but Sylvester Stallone knows how to pull off a film like that and make the audience want to go along for the ride.
The plot is pretty basic with expat Gordon Jennings (Elba) being the brains behind a highly polished and stylised, five-man crew of L.A.-based bank robbers/grifters who’ve made themselves rich enough to indulge their every yearning for sharp suits and fast cars while staying out of jail by carefully and cautiously planning and devising every job down to the smallest detail as any good bank robber will do. This is the formula they could followed carefully from films like Ocean’s 11, 12 and 13. A.J (Christianson) is the techie guy who plays it to a tee; John Rahway (Walker) is the driver and occasional sniper; Jesse Attica (Brown) is the one with heart like in every heist film, although the film doesn’t give him much chance to show it, and his brother Jake (Ealy), who’s head-over-heels in love with stereotypical gorgeous club-owner Lilli (Saldana), who is the financial expert who wisely invests their haul. When the film opens, the gang’s just pulled off an amazing robbery and are preparing to lay low for a year when their old flashy associate Delonte “Ghost” Rivers (Atlanta-based rapper T.I.) strolls in with the last plan that will set them for life. Doesn’t this remind you so much of Ocean’s 11, 12 or 13? Or even the bastard film idea of The Italian Job?
Basically, Takers is a poor man’s Michael Mann film and very poor at that. Best action movies ever likes the casting of the film, but like with some soups, it doesn’t matter what you add to it, if the base is crappy, you’re gonna wind up with some crappy soup.
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