Someone asked me to drive them to the dollar tree at 9:15PM. I was thinking like...no way. I thought they closed at nine anyway. But in the end, I agreed to go since, I had to get gas and as it turns out, they close at 10PM. And...since I was the Dollar Tree, and the movie theater is right next door.....Long story short I went to see a movie on a last moment spur. Basically, we didn't know what we were getting ourselves into. I knew nothing about any of the movies playing, and two of them I actually saw already and I didn't want to see it again.
Takers was playing at a good time for when we arrived. I asked someone standing in line what that movie was about. She couldn't remember at first, then she said it was about mobsters. I got tickets to see Takers, and the funny thing was that we were the few white people in the whole theater to see the movie. Most of the audience was black. I was in great suspense to see the movie since I knew absolutely nothing about it. Didn't even see the preview. But, from the audience, I started to believe that the main characters would probably be black. Turns out Chris Brown, Tip T.I. Harris, Zoe Saldana, Idris Elba, Michael Ealy, and a lot of the other main characters were black. They also had a few white people in the movie, such as Hayden Christiansen, Paul Walker, and Matt Dillon. It was a diverse mix of actors.
After seeing the movie, and coming home, I read the reviews of some critics and some people. I read a lot of reviews of people that liked it, hated it, or they thought it was okay. I liked the movie. It was okay. I didn't love it or anything, but I don't think it was a bad movie.
Anyway, out of all the reviews, I agree with the one that said he felt like he was routing for both the bad guys and the good guys in this movie, which caused a internal conflict, and suspense. I disagreed with a lot of common criticism that I heard such as, the movie had no plot, the acting was horrible, the camera work was confusing and I couldn't tell what was going on.
I did agree with the criticism that the characters were not that well developed, so you didn't know them very well. Who and why were these people? Normally, I would have a problem with that, but somehow not knowing much about the main characters worked for this movie. I had no trouble seeing what was happening...the camera work was fine. The people who said that they couldn't tell what was going on probably had bad sensory skills, I don't know what their deal was.
As for it having no plot, I believe that the plot of this movie was actually interesting, and it had good twists and surprises. It wasn't your run of the mill bank robber movie. It had some extra complexity to it. I guess I'm not great at giving reviews, but, I did like the movie. It's not sophisticated or anything. It's an action packed bank robber movie for pete's sake.
Tip T.I. Harris made a great impact on this movie, and if his character "Ghost" wasn't in the movie, it would have been a lot less interesting and would have been a movie with no plot as they would say. It was very interesting to see his con game and how the betrayal fell. It was also stupid as to how they all fell for it. Teaches you to play the safe side, trust your instincts. Put yourself in other people's shoes to know their true intentions, and be realistic. One thing this movie teaches you is that crime doesn't pay. Especially since a lot of the criminals die in this movie.
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