Talk:Takers

Is it just me or does this look like Heat, only with mostly black guys? Here's Wikipedia's take, for what its worth: A group of professional bank robbers, who specialize in spectacular robberies, are pulled into one last job by a recently paroled cohort only to be pitted against a hard-boiled detective who interrupts their heist. If that's not Heat, then i don't know what is.

For a minute, I was looking for the scene in The Losers where the team walks away as a helicopter explodes, but then I realized that Idris Elba is in both movies and that scene is from this film. --Ben41 21:57, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Who called this the new Heat?

Seriously, someone told me that articles are writing this as the Heat of this generation and that just made me cringe. The cast just didn't have the legendary status that De Niro and Al Picino had back then and they had too many named cast members unlike Heat. And really, the Heat of the recent generation would be Public Enemies which was directed by Micheal Mann.Excalibur01 17:04, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

But come on on! Walker is almost like a de niro (note sarcasm)...Heat is in its own right and really i would like to believe only a independent movie could reach that magnatude. But Public Enemies?...i guess if you could stay awake long enough it could maybe be a little like heat...kinda. If anything can be compared to heat right now i think it would be The Town with jermy remmer--Spades of Columbia 17:34, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Some of the shootouts in Mesrine: Killer Instinct are on the epic scale similar to Heat; it certainly has a very prolonged shootout involving a variety of different weapons. This is the true story of a famous French bank robber, and his exploits in France and later in Canada. The final shootout of the 1st film is quite spectacular, and is surely the only time in history where an escaped prisoner comes back to rescue his fellow inmates, M16 in hand (remember this is a true story!). Worth checking out this not too famous film...

If epic scale shootouts are the criteria for determining the next Heat I would cast my vote for the Korean film Shiri. That film has better gunfights in both quality and quantity than most recent American films. -Anonymous

Thanks for the info...I love to hear about awesome foreign flics...I'm almost out of Cantonese and korean movies to watch, or atleast the good ones.--Spades of Columbia 18:22, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

I've seen Takers and I've got to say, it's no Heat. That's because there will never be another heist movie like Heat.

Unless they remake it. Which seems like the trend nowadays in film. To remake better films. Excalibur01 20:10, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

In 3D BeardedHoplite 20:19, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

No one could remake Heat besides Michael Mann.

And he already did. Heat is a remake of LA Takedown. --funkychinaman 20:50, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Can anyone please point me to a reviewer who says this movie is the "new Heat"? I've seen plenty of comparisons to Heat in the reviews I've read from MetaCritic, but they were all made in a pejorative way - certainly not positive. Most reviewers I've seen called it a Heat "wannabe". -MT2008 00:49, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

I'm just wondering if Chris Brown will put his woman-beating skills to work in this move.--Asmkillr323 18:33, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

I haven't seen it yet, but according to this review, it would appear that in fact he does get to slap women around in the movie! -MT2008 00:03, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

I don't listen to contemporary music, so unfortunately, his domestic abuse is the only reason why I know who the heck he is. --funkychinaman 01:12, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Uhh... why is everybody getting so upset? You realize that all the reviews in the commercials were excerpts, right? They were just spun so that it looked like the movie was getting good press. One reviewer could have said: "The director and cast try and fail to pass this movie off as 'Heat' for a new generation," but the people who do the commercials only took those last four words! They're just paraphrasing the reviewer, in a way. In the text that praises the movie, the ellipses (...) is where the negative part of the review ended.

1911

I think its possible the first .45 used by John could possibly be a Kimber Pro Carry II or maybe a Nighthawk T3. those would be my guesses but im not sure. i also when watching the movie thought he might have switched because in some parts the 1911 seemed more compact. Dirtdiver 6421 23:20, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

At the very end of the movie it looks like Paul Walker uses a full size 1911 to kill T.I...i hate to say this but it did look like a Kimber TLE Custom but not sure.--Spades of Columbia 18:57, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

At the end, the 1911 didn't look full sized, so I doubt its a Kimber TLE, but would believe that it was a Pro Carry. --Mattattack07 06:21, 22 January 2011 (UTC)