Tasha's take on the Takers

Takers starring Matt Dillon, Jay Hernandez, Idris Elba, T.I, Chris Brown, Michael Ealy, Hayden Christensen, and Paul Walker is an action packed heist film.

Some of my movie pet peeves are 3D and musicians in movies. So Takers already gets 3 points for not being 3 dimensional, and even the use of music artists didn't make me want to bang my head on the wall in anger. Don't watch the film expecting to be blown away by any means, unless all it takes is a slow motion scene of sexy men to make your mind explode. (Guilty)

After the movie I tweeted the following:

Wait we gotta talk about how everyone was in this damn movie! Shit I think I saw myself smh

I feel as though the rest of the cast was meant to ensure a credible film by having great supporting actors. I mean every scene I was more shocked that very relevant actors were taking such small roles but that made it all more effective for me. Marianna Jean-Baptsite playing a crackhead sister, Steve Harris playing LT, and Glen Turman as Chief. It made me happy. Even Zoe Saldana role was minimal and it made me respect her career more.

I was honestly shocked that I enjoyed the film as much as I did. Admittedly when I first saw the trailer I wanted to see the film for the eye candy, not so much the plot. I didn't have high hopes for it at all, and perhaps because I expected close to nothing it didn't take much to excite me. Chris Brown won me over with his stunts because he really brought it. I finally got to see Idris in his natural tongue which, yes please, I want more of. Paul Walker did the same thing he always does, but I'm not complaining and T.I..hmmm he had a lot of speaking parts. Can't say I'm a supporter of his acting.

Overall I think what I liked the most is that this was a mostly black cast and yet not a stereotypical film. In fact it was very realistic. It was like Oceans 11, Rocknrolla, The Italian job (all movies I approve of) and reality hooked up and gave birth to the Takers. Nicely done and I hope to see more from literally everyone in this cast.

I guess I'll start grading films for the fun of it. This movie gets a B for Banging scene of Idris in his underwear! Yesssss!!!!


UPDATE: Takers beat out The Last Exorcism for the weekend number one spot! Exciting :)