
Takers is a 2010 American crime action thriller film directed by John Luessenhop from a story and screenplay written by Luessenhop, Gabriel Casseus, Peter Allen, John Rogers, and Avery Duff. It features an ensemble cast that includes Matt Dillon, Chris Brown, Idris Elba, T.I., Jay Hernandez, Paul Walker, Hayden Christensen, and Zoë Saldaña. The film was released on August 27, 2010.[4]The film follows a group of professional bank robbers (Michael Ealy, Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen, Paul Walker, Idris Elba) who specialize in spectacular robberies, as they are pulled into one last job by a recently paroled cohort (T.I.) only to be pitted against a hard-boiled detective (Matt Dillon) and his partner (Jay Hernandez) who interrupt their heist.
Movie Details :
Directed by: John Luessenhop
Produced by :Will Packer,Michael Ealy,T.I.,Tom Lassally,
Jason Geter,Gary Gilbert.
Screenplay by :Peter Allen,Gabriel Casseus,John Luessenhop,
Avery Duff.
Story by: Gabriel Casseus,Peter Allen,John Rogers.
Starring :Paul Walker,Matt Dillon,Idris Elba,Jay Hernandez,
Michael Ealy,Tip "T.I." Harris,Chris Brown,Hayden Christensen.
Music by :Paul Haslinger,Cinematography Michael Barrett.
Edited by:Armen Minasian
Production company :Rainforest Films,Grand Hustle Films.
Distributed by :Screen Gems
Release dates :August 4, 2010 ,August 27, 2010.
Running time: 107 minutes
Country :United States
Language :English
Story About :
Takers : Two detectives, Jack Welles (Matt Dillon) and Eddie Hatcher (Jay Hernandez), investigate a daring heist by a group of well-organized bank robbers. The crew, led by Gordon Cozier (Idris Elba), consists of John (Paul Walker), A.J. (Hayden Christensen), and brothers Jake (Michael Ealy) and Jesse (Chris Brown) Attica. The crew is without a former member, Ghost (T.I.), who was caught during a previous robbery 5 years ago. In his absence, Jake has begun a relationship with his former girlfriend Lilly (Zoe Saldana), who has accepted his proposal.Ghost surprises the crew after getting paroled. He draws them into a heist of an armored car that would yield $20 million. Meanwhile, Welles leads a raid on a Russian gang hideout, and finds evidence of a large heist being planned. Ghost is linked to the gangsters when his name turns up amongst the evidence at the hideout, due to ties he made with them while in prison.The crew meets to plan the heist, in which it is discovered that two trucks will travel together but that all the money is kept in the lead truck. The plan is to explode a crater-like hole on a city street causing the lead truck containing the $20 million to plummet into an underground tunnel connected to the sewer system to provide for a getaway. Ghost poses as a traffic cop to redirect all traffic save for the armored trucks, which he directs to the target point. Meanwhile, to cover themselves in case Ghost is setting them up, John (Walker) heads to the top of a nearby garage to take out Ghost with a sniper rifle in case things go sour. The armored trucks are late but moments before John shoots Ghost, they finally show up, having been detained in traffic. The trucks are directed down the street towards the planned explosion point but stop short because of a bicyclist in the road.