EMM# : 29806
Added: 2014-12-16

The Taking (2013)

Rating: 2.1

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Genre:  Horror (Thriller)

Length: 1 h 17 min - 77 min

Video:   1920x816 (23.976 Fps - 2 208 Kbps)

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Two strangers must discover a way to escape a sinister family who wishes to sacrifice their souls to an evil presence.

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palms-872-684706
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This "film" is simply dreadful. I won't drag this out. Terrible writing, directing, acting. Terrible scenes, production, makeup. They probably had terrible food on set too. There is not one single thing to like in this "film". I felt raped.

Pay attention to the reviews here. You'll see 2 or 3 blazing good reviews. If you notice they know people involved by their first names and it's obvious that the reviewers either worked on the "film" and/or are trolls.

This is one of the worst to come a long in a while. It's so bad that it can't even be made fun of for a laugh. It's bad enough to make you angry.

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Shizuka from United States
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Two people go into the woods and of course meet some psychos who want to....

Wait, you say, haven't I seen this a thousand times before?

Yes you have, but never as bad as this crap made by people with no talent whatsoever.

This is one of those "movies" (I call it a "movie" but it's not really a "movie") where everybody involved really sucks.

There is absolutely NOTHING good about this epic fail.

It wouldn't even qualifiy for all the YouTube sites where they make fun of movies by commenting on their crappiness while watching them.

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Sofian Charbaux from Internet
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The two first troll reviews made my day seriously. This movie is not even worth downloading or watching stream, just burn all the original copies of it and throw the ashes in a pit in the middle of a desert.

Stop making movies like this, thank you, just by watching the trailer i knew this movie would be a joke filmed with a potato and carrots actors.

Wasted 9 minutes of my life on this majestic blaspheme to the art of cinematography.

Reported.

Seriously, i can't even breath anymore, this is too funny, reading the two first comments bellow make this while thing a pure joke, i really hope for them these are troll comments and not member of the production of this Potato movie trying to make it look good even if they won't food anyone. Certainly not IMDb community. :')

Garlic Bread -laugh-

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Tiki_Man from Earth
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If you enjoy watching a lot of shots of the sun partially hidden by trees over and over this movie is for you! Lots and lots of the same shot repeating over and over.

There is no dramatic structure at all to this film. The filmmakers (if you can call them that) sprinkle in some actors running through the woods screaming, running into houses screaming, and driving their cars screaming. Yes this movie has a lot of sporadic yelling, dissolves, freeze frames, and I do not have a clue what it is all about.

It's got some really weird sound design, I think the sound editor fell in love with a 'pitch control' plug in.

I usually don't care for films that drive the narrative through dialogue, but the complete lack of narrative structure here is ridiculous. Visually it's a complete mess. The films of Stan Brackhage and Matthew Barney are more comprehensible. It's just a film with a bunch of actors covered in fake blood walking around the woods or bound to a tree, and did I say lots and lots of freeze frames, dissolves and the same shot of the sun hidden partially by trees? They also slapped in a disembodied voice saying 'Carl' over and over for good measure.

In stead of Horror it should have been categorized as just plain Horrible.

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Stephen Jones
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We only managed to sit through the first 11 minutes before calling it a day. I think we did pretty well considering.

The cinematography and soundtrack were repetitive and disjointed. It looked like they only had one camera to shoot with and so every scene (within the first 11 minutes) was chopped together with the same imagery and sound effects. It was funny the first 2 or three times, we even joked "I bet they show the sky again" but they kept on doing it! The result wasn't eerie or sinister but it did give my wife and I a headache.

I don't feel its fair to comment on the acting as I only watched 11 minutes of the movie and didn't see any.

As for the reviewers that gave this such an astounding review. Well done! You got me! (for 11 minutes anyway).

For everyone else - AVOID AVOID AVOID!

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Porta Pan from United States
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I have never written a review on IMDb before. This movie was so awful, so pointless and utterly devoid of artist merit that I felt compelled to write one. I'm a huge fan of experimental, avant- garde art-house films, but this is like something that a class of 6th graders put together. In addition to the utter absence of a plot, characters, narrative structure or even a point, the sound design is so awful that it's literally unbearable. Someone needs to explain to the "Director" that loud screeching noises and unintelligible distorted voices are not, in themselves, even remotely scary or interesting. I cannot emphasize enough how bad this movie is. I've seen a lot of bad movies, and usually there is at least SOMETHING to redeem them; this movie misses even that low bar. Avoid at all costs.

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Gibson Snyder from United States
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You know what's funny? I watched exactly 10 mins and 42 seconds of this movie before I paused it and searched it on IMDb. In this comment section I found that 11 mins was about average for quitting.

Don't get me wrong, I am a fan of movies that do horror differently, and I am very open to artistic development of motion picture. But seriously, this tries way to hard to copy something good and still fails the test. I've been more interested in the beginning of children's movies than this movie, and I can say with full confidence that I have never sat down intending to watch a certain movie and quit like this. In fact, if I start watching a movie, it really bothers me if I don't watch it from the beginning and don't finish it, regardless its really good or really bad. Even to the point of not even going to the theatre if I am more than 5 mins past the start of the movie; I consider myself a cinemaphile. But this is not cinema, it's a crummy redbox rental that just sits on your table for 3 days and that you give the company money to take back.

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besimms from New Zealand
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Okay...so I gave this about 10 minutes and thought "What the hell is going on?".

I understand that the idea was trying to make an "art-house" horror flick. but the only thing that was made was - me being nauseous with all the image flicking in bad editing! If I was epileptic I would of had half a dozen seizures within the first 20 minutes! (That's right, I endured for a while longer after reading the "Critics reviews")

The sound track was pathetic. I flicked the movie after 30 minutes of enduring what I can only refer to as crap!

Please do not waste your time watching this rubbish. The writers themselves should be tied to trees in the forest and left there...

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Omigawd Noooway from United States
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I never had the need to make and account and submit a review until today. I am amazed on what a train wreck I just witnessed. These two have destroyed... no... TAKEN not only my day but countless others. You will not be forgiven.

This was such an absolute failure.

I forced myself to watch it all the way through and now I have paid the the ultimate price.. and that price was to be part of the few that watched it all the way through.

Chinese Cringe - look it up...

AVOID THIS. I REALLY MEAN IT.

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Toltex from United Kingdom
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I only managed about 10 mins then had to switch it off, its all flashing imagery, strange symbolism and weird sound effects. IMHO 77 minutes is far too long to endure it all, perhaps it would of been more bearable if it was a short Film. This won't go down well, with your average Horror audience and unless your a film student, critic or well into art house, this probably will annoy the hell out of you with all the sound effects and flashing imagery, and will go straight over the head of most Horror fans. So if you are into horror don't look at its rating and think that you might enjoy this, do yourself a favour, save your money and go and rent something that you will actually enjoy. I give it 1 out of 10 and that's only because i cant give it a zero. When i wrote this its rating was a lot higher, i think about 6.5.

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Germany:18