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Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Takers (2010)

This is an elaborate heist movie, where there is a talented cast of young bank robbers who are pitted against two cops who are dedicated to bringing them down.  So you know right from the get go what you are getting into.  The bad guys are very unlikable when it comes to the robbery aspect of their work.  They yell, swing around big assault rifles, and are generally unpleasant.  The cops are just a teeny tiny bit more likable, but it is really neck and neck when it comes to personality, which is how it should be in a decent heist movie.
Then superimpose the plot of the gang member who went to prison.  he has a serious chip on his shoulder about being left behind, and it is clear to everyone except for the bank robbers that he is out to get even.  Some of them suspect that to be true but they don't quite see what his angle is.  Then it unfolds, there is a lot of shooting, and while i won't say what happens, but not everybody gets out alive.

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