Take Down

Take Down

19/8/2016 1h 47m 5.8/10

Overview

Sons and daughters of international billionaires are sent to an boot camp where they are taught basic survival skills in hopes it will teach them responsibility. When they are taken hostage and taken for ransom by kidnappers, they will need to utilize every skill they learned to survive.

Director

Jim Gillespie

Top Billed Cast

Phoebe Tonkin

Phoebe Tonkin

Amy Tilton

Ed Westwick

Ed Westwick

Billy Speck

Dominic Sherwood

Dominic Sherwood

James Herrick

Jeremy Sumpter

Jeremy Sumpter

Kyle Hartmann

Anna-Louise Plowman

Anna-Louise Plowman

Emily Tilton Scofield

Sebastian Koch

Sebastian Koch

Bobby Hartmann

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

6/4/2022

5/10

Hunky but largely charm-free Jeremy Sumpter is the wayward "Kyle" - son of a slightly dodgy gazilionnaire "Hartmann" (Sebastian Koch) - who is sent to a remote Scottish island camp for the disparate offspring of equally rich people who have lost control of their children. Ed Westwick ("Speck") and three of his pals hit on a plan to attack this barely guarded outpost and hold the weans for ransom - $1 billion no less. Their plan works fine except for the fact that "Kyle" manages to escape and finding an inner strength previously unknown to him, realises that he can rescue his buddies and they can all work together in the ultimate team-bonding exercise to take down the baddies... No, it's not very good. A sort of "Hunger Games" meets the "Adventure Game" with plenty of eye candy, but precious little else by way of suspense or decent writing/acting/directing to help it along for what seemed like quite a long 100 minutes of low budget cinematography. It's fine to watch on telly whilst your are ironing, or doing something equally mundane - but that's about it.

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