Takers

Paul Walker, Hayden Christensen, Matt Dillon, T.I. and more star in a time-heister.

"Takers," the new heist movie starring blah, blah, blah, blah, blah and T.I. (who's scary bad and just plain scary), would be a good snooze if it weren't for all the noisy gunfire and explosions and the violins — which always signal a "special" shootout that will unfold in that ballet-of-death style that's supposed to be arty but just feels tedious here. Did I mention the dialogue? Well, really the armored car driver put it best when he said, "We're in trouble here…" No joke. The movie is about an upscale gang of five "Takers" (their quotes this time), or as Paul Walker's sharpshooter John puts it in a deeply reflective moment as they consider the merits of a last-minute armored car heist that requires blowing up an L. [...]

di Betsy Sharkey, articolo completo (3887 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 27 agosto 2010