SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

sandrazas-530-533196 Took me a while to decide to watch this series, I normally shy away from intense violence on screen. However, I do not regret for a second watching it. Powerful and heart wrenching tale. Beautifully directed and produced. Incredible performances by the whole cast. It'll stay with me for a long time.

lannnancy It's easily the best mini-series that I have ever seen.Perhaps not the right venue, but could you please tell me the name of the song to which, the bride & groom were dancing to? Sound like, "I'm crazy; crazy about our love…" That is just one example about the background music that I loved. The dialogue was crisp and did not lag. The plot was fantastic. Always kept me on the edge of my seat. Tom Hardy was desirable and irresistible. He played a good, bad guy. I look forward to seeing him in more movies. He takes full control of the camera, when he plays the functional sociopath. It's a mini-series that you want to see over and over again. It can be paralleled to a book. It's not what the author says; it's how he says it. Well, it's not what Tom Hardy plays, It's how he plays it.

samkan After watching the RED RIDING trilogy I thought I'd invest some time in British crime serial dramas. THE TAKE turned out to be a total waste of time. The beginning is interesting enough, though the viewer feels suspicious he/she has seen such before (Indeed, the bad boy out of prison routine is a tired route that should be RE-tired.). THE TAKE immediately begins to dissolve. There are almost no new characters that we didn't meet in the first 15 minutes. The criminal events are few and a "heist" in the first episode is ill-introduced and poorly presented. A substantial portion of time, possibly a full third, is the pity-us-poor-women-in-a-man's-world which has no intrigue or interest whatsoever. Wedding and party scenes are padded with time and adorned with bad background music. The only item that MIGHT redeem is our lead character, who quickly proves psychotic though more obnoxious than interesting. Brian Cox cannot save the day. THE TAKE simply takes your precious time and squarely qualifies as junk.

stumps029 Strap yourself for the ultimate thrill ride of betrayal,sex and drugs i've just watched the first two episodes last night and i have too say this is stunning portrayal of a 80's gangster..... our story begins when Freddie gets out from a stint in prison where he was working for Ozzy played brilliant by Brian Cox and the story follows Freddie who is a totally uncontrollable gangster through the decades of the eighties (brillant played by Tom Hardy)in amongst this is his cousin Jimmy who has more brains that him when it comes business and so far the story is tell the battle of wits between the family member if the first two episodes are anything to go by the this is truly worth the watch....