The Take
(Originally Bastile Day)
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Came out; 2016
Time; 1 hour 32 Minutes
Watched: Netflix
Rated: R for violence, language and some nudity
IMDB Rating; 6.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
Tomato Meter 49%
Popcorn Meter 42%
Caution; Spoiler Alert
Staring;
Idris Elba as Sean Briar
Richard Madden as Michael Mason
Charlotte Le Bon as Zoe
Kelly Reilly as Karen Dacre
Jose Garcia as Victor Gamieux
Thierry Godard as Rafi Bertrand
Story Line;
Michael Mason, a pickpocket living in Paris, steals a bag with a teddy bear in it. Not realizing the toy contains a timed bomb, he tosses it aside on a busy street. A few seconds later it explodes, killing four people. CCTV footage reveals Mason's face and the French police tag him as a terrorist threat. The explosion, although botched, was set up by a select group of the French Interior Ministry as a decoy so they can make a half billion dollar digital transfer from a bank (closed on French National Day) -- hence the title Bastille Day. In a separate CIA investigation the unruly agent Sean Briar discovers the real story behind Mason's "terrorist attack". The two men, on different sides of the law, collaborate to bring the corrupt members of the Ministry down
Thoughts:
We found this movie in the 90 minute section on netflix. We decided to give it a chance.
It had a decent plot, decent action and a decent acting, however the movie itself was a little boring.
To many dead spaces of nothing going on.
I'm not sure what it was, it certainly had great potential and has good ratings
CAUTION; Spoiler Alert
On the
eve of Bastille Day in Paris, an American conman Michael Mason,
steals a woman's handbag with a teddy bear inside, unknown to Mason
the teddy bear is rigged with explosives. After disposing of the
handbag, it explodes, killing four people. The bomb was intended to
detonate in an empty office but it fails due to the presence of
employees. Mason is subsequently tagged as a terrorist by the French
authorities as well as CIA surveillance in Paris.
Learning
about Mason, CIA agent Sean Briar goes to pursue Mason and the chase
ensues over rooftops, Briar captures Mason and heads to the secret
interrogation room. Mason explains that he didn't know that the bag
he stole contained a bomb, and he got the information of the woman
named Zoe through the call log of the phone, which was a;so in the
bag with the teddy bear bomb. Meanwhile, Zoe, the woman from earlier,
with the help of the man whom she knew as Jean (although we don't
know his name at this point), blames herself for the deaths of the
four people. The explosion was actually set up by the group of
mercenaries led by Rafi Bernard, who told them to plant the bomb at
the office. Upon learning from the man who blew the bomb, Jean allows
Zoe to escape, realizing that the group will come to kill her.
The
group tracks the location of Zoe's phone. Briar engages in a fight
with the group members, and they subdue Briar, while Mason escapes.
Rafi and the group sets another attack by planting the evidence of
the bomb at the mosque. They discuss that if the group follows the
plan and spreads the chaos, they will have a half-billion dollar
transfer from a bank into their encrypted drive. French Interior
Minister Victor Gamieux reveals himself as the leader of the
mercenary group. Thus, making the people in the mosque falsely
accused of being the bombers.
After being chased by the
authorities and Rafi's forces, Mason is picked by Briar and heads to
the safe house of Zoe's friend Paul and his group of men, moments
after Zoe arrives. Upon interrogation about Zoe's whereabouts, Zoe
and her friends escape and burn their car. Mason and Briar are forced
to steal someone's car and head to the bar where Paul are working.
Mason successfully gets Paul's ID after he stages a brawl in the bar.
The ID card contains Zoe's address.
Mason and Briar head to
the apartment where Zoe lives. Upon entering the room, Zoe breaks out
and takes Mason hostage by aiming her knife onto his neck. Briar then
interrogates Zoe where the bomb occurs next, and asks who made that
bomb. Zoe tells him that man she knew is Jean, who is having a
relationship with her, and discloses his address. While the three
heading to Jean's, they are ambushed by Rafi and his henchman but
manage to escape. Upon arriving, they discover that Jean hanged
himself. Zoe is shocked to see this while Briar discovers his ID
showing that Jean is actually the police undercover Fibbert Pascal.
Briar then calls his fellow CIA officer Karen Dacre, telling her that
someone set up the riots in the city and she sends someone to pick
the three up.
Karen meets Victor Gamieux - her primary contact
back in Libya, discussing that the attack in the mosque was a set up.
Learning that Karen has the witness, Gamieux kills Karen by shooting
her at point blank range and he calls Rafi to pick them up. As they
are picked up, Zoe realizes that one of the two inside the van is one
of Rafi's henchmen. When the henchmen are about to kill them, they
engage in a fight between the three and the henchmen and manage to
kill all of them in the van. Meanwhile, Rafi's forces are planning to
attack the bank.
Mason, Briar and Zoe head to the bank. Briar
realizes that Gamieux killed Karen and discovers his corrupt plans.
As the three arrive at the bank with the number of protestors
gathered at the front of the bank, Briar poses as cops in order to
infiltrate the bank while Mason and Zoe stay. Inside the vault, Rafi
makes a transfer of $500 million into the hard drive. Briar exchanges
gunfire with the henchmen. When Mason and Zoe realize that Briar is
being overwhelmed, they get out of the van and run through the
policemen along with the protestors, making Briar infiltrate the
vault. At the vault, Briar engages in a gunfight with Rafi and the
henchman, killing the henchman but Rafi manages to escape. Learning
that his men are overwhelmed, Gamieux calls Rafi to abort the
transfer but he refuses, and Gamieux will not help him anymore and
Rafi threatens to take down with him for the attack that they made if
Rafi apprehends. Upon Rafi get out of the vault, Mason stealthily
took his hard drive upon Briar's orders. Rafi then took Zoe hostage
and threatens to kill her and Mason if he does not give his hard
drive. When Rafi is about to shoot Mason, Briar tackles Mason out
but, upon Gamieux's orders, the policemen open fire on Rafi killing
him. While Briar is recovering from his gunshot wounds, Mason
escapes.
Some time later, Mason meets Gamieux at the church,
asking for the passport, plane tickets for Brazil and $100,000 cash
in exchange for the hard drive. After Mason hands the hard drive to
Gamieux, they head to the tunnel where the supposed $100,000 cash is.
As they arrive, Gamieux aims his gun at Mason but Briar arrives,
aiming his gun at Gamieux too, then he shoots Mason. The other
authorities arrive and arrest Gamieux, and Mason reveals that he is
wearing a bulletproof vest and hard drive that gave to him is fake.
He then hands over the real hard drive to Briar. Clearing his name,
Briar tells Mason that he got a job.
