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- 2017
- TV-MA
- The Orchard
- 1 h 23 m
- 2017
- TV-MA
- The Orchard
- 1 h 23 m
Summary Ray is in the boutique simulated abduction business. It's an understandably threadbare market, so he jumps at the chance when a mysterious call contracts him for a weekend kidnapping with a handsome payday at the end. But the job isn't all that it seems.
Directed By: Pat Healy
Written By: Mike Makowsky
- 2017
- TV-MA
- The Orchard
- 1 h 23 m
- 2017
- TV-MA
- The Orchard
- 1 h 23 m
Take Me
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6.4
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Summary Ray is in the boutique simulated abduction business. It's an understandably threadbare market, so he jumps at the chance when a mysterious call contracts him for a weekend kidnapping with a handsome payday at the end. But the job isn't all that it seems.
Directed By: Pat Healy
Written By: Mike Makowsky
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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55% Positive
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6 Reviews
18% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
27% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
56
55% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
18% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
27% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
What it really is is a screwball comedy with a black-hearted center, an energy extremely difficult to capture and maintain, but Healy—as actor and as director—manages to do so.
From one wild mood swing to the next, it keeps us interested with aplomb, with Mike Makowsky’s script never lingering too long on any one element, the better to keep the pace brisk, and unpredictable.
Healy knows exactly the mix of comical bumbling and psychological tension he wants here.
Take Me tickles just often enough to be worth its 84 minutes, not something I’d trek out to see at the cinema, but perfectly Netflixable.
Schilling and Healy never quite overcome the fact that Take Me is a suspense comedy that simply isn't very suspenseful or very funny and, just as importantly, never finds a thematic through line.
While the film, to its credit, doesn't become a trite morality play, the ending is thin and contrived nonetheless.
Take Me proves to be a tonal mess with weak comic timing.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 User Ratings
6.4
36% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 User Ratings
6.4
36% Positive
5 Ratings
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57% Mixed
8 Ratings
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7% Negative
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