Monday 26 February 2018

Bastille Day / The Take (2016 James Watkins)

It was broadcast on Channel 4 under the second title. Features those ridiculously quickly edited fight and chase scenes. Idris brandishes his weapons with aplomb, Richard Madden is a pickpocket and Charlotte le Bon an innocent bomber (who looks like she could do with a decent meal). With the added value of a Thierry Godard as the baddie, and Kelly Reilly, and Paris locations (though scarcely one  recognisable).

James Watkins (Eden Lake and the leaden McMafia) and Andrew Baldwin's plot is quite clever, though a bit easily guessable. It was not a very good film, really - not character-driven...

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