Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Ensofter Overrated and overhyped

UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

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.

Jay_88 Martina Cole's "The Take", is by far one of the best British drama's I have ever seen. It has such a powerful and gripping storyline, which I find is a rarity. I have never seen acting as fantastic as Tom Hardy plays his character Freddie. They could not have chosen a finer actor and he deserves so much credit for this series alone. I actually did not see this on television, but I bought it on DVD, and as you can tell I do not regret my decision. I would highly recommend this to anyone and everyone. If you love British drama, then you will love this. It has everything from sheer grit to absolutely heart breaking consequences. You cannot watch this without feeling so many different emotions, whether it is tears of laughter or tears of sadness. It will by far be the best 3 hours you will ever watch and it will definitely be something you will want to watch again and again. Martina Cole's "The Take" is nothing short of sheer brilliance.J

danhuntley I do not want to spoil the pure glory of Tom Hardy's performance in this program so I will hesitate to give too much away in this short review. Hardy plays the part of Freddie, the most evil anti-hero any of us could ever love. His monstrosity and love for all things illegal leave us wanting more from Hardy as he plays Freddie to a tee. With both physical and mental love at his side, Freddie goes about rebuilding his life after a trip inside; and he does so, with a vengeance against those who have treated his family in a bad way whilst he has been in prison. I hesitate to write another sentence about 'The Take' as I think I could carry on forever, but would surely end up writing the whole script!Do yourself a favour, watch the 3 episodes available at the moment, then await the fourth and final episode. Sure to be a beautiful triumph from the director David Drury. Enjoy.

davoshannon Only watched half an episode, and already like it.Brian Cox is always worth watching, but his young protogée is a psycho worth a glance as well. Shades of the Krays in the masked but finally explosive violence.Only thing I would have improved on so far is the engine in the Capri (well it's the '80's) - it's only a 1.6 Laser. Hadn't the props boys heard of the 3 litre, or depending on the actual timescale the final 280.The title might have been suggested by Peter Gabriel's lyric "if you don't get given, you learn to take" - but that was about something entirely different. (Peter Gabriel - "I shoot into the sun") Good stuff.OK, coming back to edit my comments, and noticing a few of you didn't find the comment useful. Bugger off!.Watching the final episode now, and it's just reinforcing my initial thoughts. This is hard stuff. Like Eastenders (which I don't watch deliberately) on smack. Baseball bats, and even shades of Hostel.Pay careful attention to the scene in the hairdressing salon between the sisters, when one "wants to look like" the other. Desperate situation.Finally, not only Brian Cox but the entire cast do an excellent job, and the part of the "wronged sister" is played by someone with such subtle eye movements that I hope her star rises quickly.