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45 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 20 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 20
  3. Negative: 4 out of 20
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  1. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Rene Rodriguez
    75
    A crackling crime drama assembled from a scrap heap of hoary cliches, Takers proves that everything old can sometimes really be new again.
  2. ReelViews
    Reviewed by: James Berardinelli
    75
    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.
  3. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Stephen Farber
    70
    The stunt work is amazing, and the pace is breathless enough to keep one watching right up to the somewhat ambiguous conclusion.
  4. Tampa Bay Times
    Reviewed by: Steve Persall
    67
    The heist movie genre gets a hip-hop makeover in Takers, a movie loaded with as much style as ammunition.
  5. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Phillips
    63
    Noisy, unsubtle, but it gets the job done.
  6. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    63
    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.
  7. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Keith Uhlich
    60
    The casting, from lead roles to supporting, is uniformly terrific.
  8. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Amy Biancolli
    50
    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.
  9. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Claudia Puig
    50
    The dialogue is clichéd and laughable. It's a film far more concerned with style - architectural, vehicular and wardrobe-related - than substance.
  10. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Liam Lacey
    50
    The new heist movie Takers is surprisingly okay.
  11. Orlando Sentinel
    Reviewed by: Roger Moore
    50
    The performers are given stock types to play, and Elba and Dillon, at least, can do a little with that.
  12. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Kimberley Jones
    50
    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.
  13. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
    50
    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.
  14. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    50
    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."
  15. Movieline
    Reviewed by: Stephanie Zacharek
    45
    It comes to the party overdressed and still fails to make an impression.
  16. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Adam Markovitz
    42
    At least they do look sharp in those suits.
  17. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    38
    Takers might have made a perfectly decent little B heist movie, but someone had to go and forget to give the cameraman his Ritalin.
  18. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Betsy Sharkey
    30
    Did I mention the dialogue? Well, really the armored car driver put it best when he said, "We're in trouble here…" No joke.
  19. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Nathan Rabin
    25
    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.
  20. Boxoffice Magazine
    Reviewed by: Steve Ramos
    20
    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.
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5.7 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 51 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 18
  3. Negative: 3 out of 18
  1. grandpajoe6191
    3
    "Takers" is a teenage crime thriller (or is it drama?). It's so crappy and terrible you can say its the "Twilight" of the crime genre.
  2. objectivity
    3
    Black Ocean's Eleven targeted towards a hip-hop audience. No, I didn't see this movie. Atleast two of the actors commited felonies in real life, so I guess I was disappointed that they couldn't even convince me they were criminals in the trailer.… Full Review »
  3. Comasi
    6
    This movie was ok. The movie goes too fast and it doesn't let the story and characters build up. It also introduces things or people and doesn't say what they are or who they are until later in the movie. Chis Brown's sequence where he's being chased by the cops was a great scene. T.I's character was too predictable but the last 30 minutes of the movie are really good. But it could of been better.… Full Review »
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