Takers
Screen Gems | Release Date: August 27, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
10
Negative:
4
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
A crackling crime drama assembled from a scrap heap of hoary cliches, Takers proves that everything old can sometimes really be new again. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
The style feels a little like that of the recently departed TV show "24," albeit without Kiefer Sutherland, the split screens, and the ticking clock. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterStephen Farber
The stunt work is amazing, and the pace is breathless enough to keep one watching right up to the somewhat ambiguous conclusion. Read full review
67
Tampa Bay TimesSteve Persall
The heist movie genre gets a hip-hop makeover in Takers, a movie loaded with as much style as ammunition. Read full review
63
New York PostLou Lumenick
You could make a worse choice for a late- summer popcorn movie than Takers, a Michael Mann-ish heist thriller with a pulse-pounding foot chase and some terrific stunt work offsetting its hackneyed plot and dialogue. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Noisy, unsubtle, but it gets the job done. Read full review
60
Time OutKeith Uhlich
The casting, from lead roles to supporting, is uniformly terrific. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleKimberley Jones
It runs the stopwatch on a chase sequence to a comical extreme and takes way, way too long to take its final bow, in the process burning off any residual goodwill. Read full review
50
VarietyBrian Lowry
A respectable but watered-down heist movie that, given the Los Angeles setting, either owes a debt to director Michael Mann or suggests an unusually violent and action-packed episode of "Entourage." Read full review
50
Orlando SentinelRoger Moore
The performers are given stock types to play, and Elba and Dillon, at least, can do a little with that. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia Puig
The dialogue is clichéd and laughable. It's a film far more concerned with style - architectural, vehicular and wardrobe-related - than substance. Read full review
50
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
There is plenty of nonsense, a great deal of stylish posturing and clothes-horsing, and a few action sequences that manage to be both gripping and preposterous. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
The new heist movie Takers is surprisingly okay. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleAmy Biancolli
After sitting through Takers with my stomach rearranged by hyperactive camera spazzing, I hereby formally request all directors and cinematographers to just get a grip already and STOP. WIGGLING. THE CAMERA. Read full review
45
MovielineStephanie Zacharek
It comes to the party overdressed and still fails to make an impression. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyAdam Markovitz
At least they do look sharp in those suits. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeTy Burr
Takers might have made a perfectly decent little B heist movie, but someone had to go and forget to give the cameraman his Ritalin. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesBetsy Sharkey
Did I mention the dialogue? Well, really the armored car driver put it best when he said, "We're in trouble here…" No joke. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Rapper, producer, and mogul Tip "T.I." Harris was recently named "global creative consultant" for Rémy Martin cognac. Coincidentally or not, he's also the star and producer of Takers, a heist thriller that feels suspiciously like a feature-length commercial for expensive liquor. Read full review
20
Boxoffice MagazineSteve Ramos
What helps salvage the film (much to the surprise of director and co-writer Lussenhop and his fellow writers Peter Allen, Gabriel Casseus and Avery Duff) are the unintentional laughs generated by the film's outrageous gun battles, childish dialogue and an action chase featuring Brown that seems to go on forever. Read full review
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