Idris Elba

Richard Madden

Charlotte Le Bon

Kelly Reilly

José Garcia

Anatol Yusef

Ériq Ebouaney

Alex Fondja

Arieh Worthalter

Thierry Godard

Vincent Londez

Stéphane Caillard

Mohamed Makhtoumi

Théo Costa-Marini

Jérôme Gaspard

Ismaël Sy Savané

Ines Boughanmi

Jorge Leon

Valeria Ragonese

Tuğba Tırpan

Karl Farrer

Stephen Parker

Andrew Baldwin

James Watkins

Bard Dorros

Jérôme Lateur

Oliver Loncraine

Caroline Bowker

Philippe Rousselet

Tim Maurice-Jones

Tony Browne

Claire Chanat

Paul Kirby

Jon Harris

David Kanter

Lizzie Pritchard

Bruce Lignerat

Michaël Laguens

Joe Howard

Eric Viellerobe

Bartholomew Cariss

Frédéric Vial

Pat Sweeney

Hugues Espinasse

Paul Spriggs

David Morison

Aurélia Fourcaut

Magali Bonnot

Vicki Stevenson

Liam Byrne

Thierry Baucheron

Kate Good

Graham Sutton

Julie Harkin

Jonathan Collard

Mark Meddings

Oliver Benson

Daniel Phillips

Rob Farris

Manuel Gaspar

Peter Wignall

Tim Caplan

Edd Gamlin

Ben Barker

Véronique Boslé

Gemma McKeon

Pierre Tormo

James Swanson

Marie-christine Carpentier

Laurie Sparham

Simon Hughes

Clare Ramsey

Jean-Christophe Magnaud

Jenny King

Philippe Hubin

Jessica Forde

Brendan Nicholson

Richard Hardy

Adam Scrivener

Malwina Suwinska

Avril Carpentier

Denis Garnier

Linda Schwach

Patrick Malone

Augustin Collet

Paul Job

Ben Wilson

Michael Dreyer

Raphaël Benoliel

Guy Speranza

Dan MacRae

Guy Stodel

Olivier Courson

Fabrice Gianfermi

Ron Halpern

Steve Golin

Alex Heffes

Fred Brown

Paul Jones

Ben Wright

George Kirby

Levan Doran

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**One wrong move made a small time thief a target.**

The first thing is this film came at the worst time in the history of France. If it was set in elsewhere in the world would have had less issue, but the Paris terror attack and this theme had lots of similarity. I mean it was nothing to do with the incident, but the contents are very impactful. Which also might be the reason for the film not doing well. I did not enjoy much this film, for me it was the story that turned me off. It was sympathetic to terrorists in the first half, so I completely hated that part, and then the last 30 or so minutes it got better. I mean not awesome or like that, but just good.

Directed by 'Eden Lake' famed director. Another very familiar story, but altered like it was for the first time in a film. So most of the parts are predictable, but one twist during the beginning of the third act made it look good. Amazing pace, it just keeps getting bigger and bigger going forward. But as we know, those developments were so clichéd. All the actors were okay, and it has some decent stunts as well. I think it is a good timepass film and nothing else..

_6/10_

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Well this just goes to show that you can put two hot blokes in the same film, set it in Paris, add some car chases and pyrotechnics - and still end up with a dud. Richard Madden (and his terrible attempt at a Nevada accent) is "Mason" an accomplished pickpocket who manages to get himself embroiled in a bombing. Spotted by CCTV, he is soon the quarry of the CIA's "Briar" (Idris Elba) before the latter realises that he is not their protagonist and that it is best the pair unite to thwart the real terrorists who are using a campaign of civil unrest to mask their real criminal intentions. James Watkins actually manages to keep the pace of this moving along quite well, but the story is far too thin and there is precisely no chemistry on screen between the gents, or between anyone and "Zoe" (Charlotte le Bon) who is also mixed up in all this mayhem. Eye candy can really help a film, and to a certain extent it does here but otherwise this is a standard made for television thriller that is light on just about everything. The condescending tones of the CIA in their dealings with their French counterparts was rather irritating too - no wonder Americans are not always overly welcome in Europe! If this was either man pitching to be the next Daniel Craig, then I'd not give up the day job.

Pretty good, for what it is. <em>'Bastille Day'</em>, or <em>'The Take'</em> for us in my neck of the woods, is a sound action thriller that suitably entertains.

Idris Elba has played this sorta role many a time but there's no doubting how strongly he performs in such films. He and co-star Richard Madden are sporting distracting (at least to someone who knows them more for their native tongue) accents, but are a solid pairing... their (admittedly somewhat minimal) buddy cop-esque banter isn't the best, though.

Elba also appears in the end credits singing... not to great effect, I gotta say. Don't get me wrong I know that guy <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qa5gB1tWK4" rel="nofollow">can very much do music</a>, it's just that <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WShPOyXyW4" rel="nofollow">this song</a> is, erm, not his strongest work, let's just say that.

It's largely predictable, though it does things in a manner that kept me interested and enjoying what I was setting eyes on. So it gets a pass from yours truly.

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Written by Reno on Fri Nov 04 2016

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