This movie was sewn together from bits and pieces of better movies, and that recycled quality never allows the story to take off.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 9, 2023

Takers collects massacres with enthusiasm… at the border of abstract surrealism. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Aug 10, 2022

What starts off as a perfectly good, generic heist movie transitions into a contrived mess of overblown theatrics and predictable character twists.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 30, 2020

Far too stylish for its own good and filled with dialogue that elicits unintended laughs.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Sep 25, 2020

Takers fails on just about every level possible.

Full Review | Original Score: F | Feb 14, 2020

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

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Sep 11, 2017

Takers is an above average heist film and while it could have benefited from an R rating, it is still one of the better movies of the summer.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 9, 2013

A fun and engaging film with an exciting young cast making the most out of an uneven script.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.0/5 | Jan 5, 2013

It seems the writers thought the essentials of a heist film were a half-baked heist sequence and lots of gunfire. They seem to forget that if there's not a good story and characters in place to carry those extra elements, none of them will matter.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 23, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: C | Feb 18, 2012

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

Full Review | Original Score: C | Jun 8, 2011

No one's asking a low-priority contemporary robbery movie to be Rififi, but there's such a thing as striving for some kind of quality that will set you apart from the anonymous pack. And no one thought to do that here.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

Not even a good effort from Matt Dillon -- who seems to play the hard-done-by cop/security guard for the umpteenth time here -- can provide this stodgy outing with the caffeine kick it is sorely in need of.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 12, 2011

The film borrows from dozens of classic heist pictures, but adds very little fresh, original or exciting to the mix.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 5, 2011

Mindless mayhem perfect for fans of pyrotechnics for pyrotechnics sake!

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 22, 2011

A consistently unwatchable actioner...

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 18, 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.

Full Review | Jan 3, 2011

Borrows from its' genre without embarassing itself.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Oct 25, 2010

It all crumbles into a series of chaotic gun battles filled with shaky camera moves and excessive noise.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 8, 2010

Marks the on-screen collision of Hayden Christensen and Paul Walker, two actors so charmless and wooden this reviewer feared their combined presence would result in the creation of a charisma black hole that could wipe out the universe.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 6, 2010