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Takers wants to be a cool, hip armored car heist movie butends up just a collection of overusedclichs and bad acting. Thats the real crime here as a potentially good storywas wasted. Watch Takers online and judge for yourself.

Director John Luessenhop should have spent morepre-production time watching the best cops and robbers movie of all time HEAT. That epic heist movie starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro knew how tobuild and carry suspense. Luessenhop could also have learned how to shootaction sequences.

Takers is about a gang of chic bank robbers out for one lastscore, and the tireless, obsessed detective determined to do anything to stopthem.

Showing that all robbers dont look like vagrants, livehand-to-mouth or spend their last dollar on cheap booze, the thieves in Takersall look as though they belong to a pretty-boy club, wear well tailored andexpensive suits, drink the most expensive alcohol, drive the most exotic carsand have the best looking girlfriends. Oh yeah, and to show they have a heart,they always donate a portion of their ill gotten gains to charity.

This Los Angelesgang is made up of leader and mastermind Gordon, played fantastically by IdirisElba. Gordon is by far the best developed character on the bad guy side. We seehim interact tenderly with his sister who is currently in rehab, and as aresult of these scenes the audience can actually care something about whathappens to him. Michael Ealy and Chris Brown play gang members and brothersJake and Jesse. They apparently have some type of complicated relationship, butthe film never explores it. Paul Walker is the 4th member and Gordons secondin command, but really does nothing but hang around looking good. The fifthmember is Darth Vader himself, Hayden Christensen, who acts as the crews mainstrategist. Christensen is a better actor than a lot of people give him creditfor, but this is not the role that proves it. It seems that his main objectiveis to make sure he is never without his porkpie hat.

The movie starts when a former crew member Ghost, played by TipT.I. Harris, suddenly reappears after a lengthy prison sentence. During histime incarcerated he hatched a plan to pull off a daring armored car heist, andthe window of opportunity is quickly closing. He returned to recruit his oldpals into one last job, one that would pull in $25 million dollars.

Gordon is immediately against doing this job. The crewnormally does only one job a year, and it is always meticulously planned downto the minute. The gang prides themselves on stop-watch timing and nevergetting anyone hurt. This job would have to be attempted before they had timeto carefully plan out every possibility. But T.I. is persistent and points outthat he did his jail time alone, without ratting out any other gang member sothey owe him. Gordon acquiesces and agrees to go forward with the heist.

Meanwhile, detective Jack Welles, played by Matt Dillon, isthe stereotypical obsessive cop with the busted family life who lives for hisjob. A border-line rouge lawman, he is forever holding off Internal Affairswhile he pieces together far-flung pieces of evidence to solve a crime. When he catches wind of the heist, he and hispartner (Jay Hernandez) start bending and breaking rules to try and stop thisgang of thieves.

Matt Dillon is a superb actor with a very large andimpressive body of work. So why a director would anchor him with some of theworst dialog of recent years is astounding. To Dillons credit, he almost pullsit off. But even his talent cant completely wipe away bad writing.

So basically we have a story of good-looking gentlemenbandits with hearts of gold out to do one last job while an aging, lonely,obsessive rogue cop tries to stop them. Yes, weve heard it all before.

Unfortunately a clich script is only the beginning of thismovies problems. Aside from the bad acting and terrible dialog is the amateurishcamerawork. Much of this movie is chase scenes, robberies and fighting, butthey are filmed with a shaky, hand-held camera. The director and cameramen wereobviously not skilled enough to pull this off because there are many sceneswhere the audience cant tell what is going on. The camera moves too much tosee the action. There are some scenes where you cant even be sure who theactors are in the shot.

Overall Takers is a disappointment.

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