What happens when you take Heat (1995), add in a few rappers, Anakin Skywalker, and that Fast and Furious dude? Well, you get Takers (2010), unfortunately. With all these ingredients, the film almost reads as a marketing ploy to put butts in the seat.
Starring Idris Elba, Paul Walker, Matt Dillon, Hayden Christensen, T.I. and Chris Brown, Takers doesn’t lack for star power. But it does have a weak script that lacks originality, and offers weak a narrative premise for character motivations.
You’re not reinventing the wheel with a film like Takers, but you could at least throw in some originality. We would have loved some more outlandish heists in newer locations — every heist we see has been done before, and it’s nothing to write home about.
We also have to address that Chris Brown is garbage. We’ll leave it at that.
