a5c7b9f00b A seasoned team of bank robbers, including Gordon Jennings (Idris Elba), John Rahway (Paul Walker), A.J. (Hayden Christensen), and brothers Jake (Michael Ealy) and Jesse (Chris Brown) Attica successfully complete their latest heist and lead a life of luxury while planning their next job. When Ghost (Tip T.I. Harris), a former member of their team, is released from prison he convinces the group to strike an armored car carrying $20 million. As the &quot;takers&quot; carefully plot their strategy and draw nearer to exacting the grand heist, a reckless police officer (Matt Dillon) inches closer to apprehending the criminals. A group of bank robbers find their multi-million dollar plan interrupted by a hard-boiled detective. Well , I just finished watching this.Notbadexpected.On first look the plot looked very similar to the title I mentioned before.But after the first few minutes it went by a different direction. I think they put more action in , but the ideas and the tricks of the robberies were all seen before. I didn&#39;t expect much from Paul Walker or Hayden Christensen , however Matt Dillon did a great job playing the cop who lives for his job.Zoe Saldana played the eye candy. It was pretty much predictable , and the shooting scenes at the end were quite unrealistic , but on the other hand it was fast-paced with intense action .The ending was a little surprising , it left me with the feeling of imperfection. Bottom line, if you looking for some Saturday night movie with your friends or girlfriend , go for it it won&#39;t disappointa quick action treat. The plot for this film does not need to be explained. It&#39;s basically a pastiche of The Italian Job, True Romance and melodramatic clichés. <br/><br/>The third element in the blender, mentioned above, along with a script short on genuine character development (You&#39;ll sometimes forget that Hayden Christensen and Zoe Saldana are in it) are distracting for a film which develops a serious tone, but there are positives, depending on your genre preferences. <br/><br/>The film moves along briskly, evenwe deal with a cringe-worthy first half, and when the actual robbery gets going, the fun starts. Though the cinematography is modeled too much off of the Bourne-style shaky cam, the set pieces are still very well pulled off. <br/><br/>The extended car chases and shootouts contain a level of energy and suspense that really makes them standout, comparable to similar scenes in the above mentioned films, along with an on-foot chase clearly modeling itself off of the Madagascar chase in Casino Royale. Every car whizzing by, bone crunch or gunshot affects the audience due to mostly- proper use of slow motion, and great editing, both sound and film wise.<br/><br/>The melodrama may make some engaged viewers start laughing due to how it&#39;s put on screen, butthe stakes get higher, gels with the storyline. <br/><br/>The main cast, considering the material they are given, do the best they can, and their charisma is enough for us to care about them when the stakes get REALLY high, particularly in the case of Matt Dillon and Idris Elba.<br/><br/>It&#39;s highly unoriginal and contains several other elements worthy of nitpicking, but after evaluating how I had spent the past 107 minutes of my life, I think it got the job done.<br/><br/>B- What helps salvage the film (much to the surprise of director and co-writer Lussenhop and his fellow writers Peter Allen, Gabriel Casseus and Avery Duff) are the unintentional laughs generated by the film's outrageous gun battles, childish dialogue and an action chase featuring Brown that seems to go on forever.
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