The Take

2016

Action / Adventure / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

170
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 49% · 82 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 42% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 53217 53.2K

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Plot summary

Michael Mason is an American pickpocket living in Paris who finds himself hunted by the CIA when he steals a bag that contains more than just a wallet. Sean Briar, the field agent on the case, soon realises that Michael is just a pawn in a much bigger game and is also his best asset to uncover a large-scale conspiracy.

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Top cast

Idris Elba as Sean Briar
Kelly Reilly as Karen Dacre
Richard Madden as Michael Mason
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675.29 MB
1280*534
English 2.0
NR
24 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds 14
1.4 GB
1920*800
English 2.0
NR
24 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds 32

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by cptrene 7 / 10

Watch it even if you only watch 7.0 and above

Normally I only watch 7.0 and above but I was tired of scrolling and gave it a try. Nice, undercover CIA movie with a decent amount of action.
Reviewed by fxdx4 7 / 10

A solid action thriller with no real political baggage! Enjoy

This film (unfortunately) is most famous because it was set to come out at the same time as a Islamic terrorist attack in France, and one of the reasons I waited a while to watch this film was because I was wary of how Muslims would be portrayed in it etc. Let me without spoilers tell you this film is almost entirely unpolitical, with the 'Islamic threat' so far down the radar it can't even be said to be a theme.

Now on to the film! Do you like Idris Elba? If you don't, stop reading this review and never watch this film. This is his film. He plays a bad-ass CIA agent (there is an irony of a British actor playing a CIA man stationed in France) who does not like to follow rules, and he is on the trail of a master pick pocket (Richard Madden) who gets wrapped up in a plot to blow up France. Cliché, yes, but the film does avoid some obvious ones, surprising pleasantly at some points.

Elba is menacing, cool and always fantastic, and all of his co-stars pull their weight, but none are particularly likable, and they just have very little chemistry together. But, this is an action, thriller, so who really cares about that. The action is solid, but not mind blowing. The balance between action and thriller is about right, and the director does not get distracted with too many side characters or plots.

This is about as standard a movie as you can get, with the only real plus being Elba. He needs to do more action movies, he needs to be the next Bond. 6.5, but IMDb won't let me give it that score so I bump to a 7 on Elba's performance!

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