Takers Movie Review

Takers, in case you didn't get it from the trailer is a heist movie.

The good - the action squences were good.  Matt Dillon was in the movie and surprise, surprise he did the best job of all the actors in it.

The bad  - it was like Hangover a reworking of a previous movie.  But while Hangover, one of the best and my favourite comedies of all time, was an improvement on The Bachelor Party, Takers was not an improvement on Heat.  It was an inferior movie.  They actually took some dialogue from Heat and used it in the beginning of this movie.  If you'll remember in the first initial armored truck robbery Al Pacino's character said to a subordinate, "check the FBI database for aliases Slick.  You'll get the phone book, do it anyway."

After the first initial bank robbery Matt Dillon's character says to his subordinates "check the contruction area for fingerprints, you'll gte half the city do it anyway."

Matt Dillon while doing a good job was more or less misused as a cliched role again borrowed from Al Pacino's role - the cop with the failing marriage.

Verdict - Wait for the DVD release.