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"Takers"

9/16/2010

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TAKERS

A cliché (or two) per minute.  Avoid!

    Let me say right off the bat that this cops and robbers action movie was so dull and cliché-riddled that I couldn’t make it to the end. Aside from that warning to avoid the whole thing, let me pass along a couple of things about the movie and the trailer that struck me as strange. First, why isn’t the star of the movie (Matt Damon) even shown in the trailer? And second, rapper TI has a cool, seductive charisma that steals the trailer, but in the film itself he is so bland he isn’t even interesting for a single frame. How is that possible? Just another mystery of show-biz I guess.
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         I was pop music critic and pop music editor of the Los Angeles Times from 1970 through 2005, and am writing books.  A memoir, "Corn Flakes with John Lennon" was published last fall.  The paperback is due in October.  I am now working on a biography.
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