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Bastille Day
U/A (INDIA)
2016
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Positive Reviews
36
Negative reviews
24
Average Rating
2.7
/5
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3.0
Like so many action films of its pedigree, The Take quickly abandons the clever nuances of its intriguing premise and plunges headfirst into a dizzyin ..
EW
1.3
The only good thing that can be said about The Take is that its creators arent fully committed to their scenarios more lamentably chauvinistic ideas.
Rogerebert
2.0
Plus, Watkins, who directed the effectively spooky The Woman in Black, chooses jerky camerawork and strobe like editing, making the so called thrills ..
Common Sense Media
3.0
Its Watkins lean, keen instinct for choreographing and cutting action set pieces that keeps Bastille Day afloat.
Variety
3.0
Regardless, The Take may still be worth watching for those looking for an action thriller that offers about as much substance and as many twists as th ..
We Got This Covered
2.0
The plot makes next to no sense theres a thread involving anarchist hashtags thatll have you hooting.
Time Out
3.0
Robert Downey Jr is back for Sherlock 3 and Spider Man, and Bastille Day reviewed the Dailies film podcast Read more With a rooftop chase scene as goo ..
The Guardian
3.0
The plot is absurd, but at least Bastille Day sidesteps the xenophobic caricatures of London Has Fallen, preferring to subvert rather than celebrate b ..
The Guardian
2.5
In the end, the plot is driven by a comforting cynicismits all about the moneythat sidesteps some of the prickly issues it raises and reduces autonomo ..
2.5
It ends up playing like a shoddy blend of V for Vendetta and Mr. Robot but without the budget bandwidth or style of either.
The Hollywood Reporter
3.5
Well not give the gimmick away here, but it is largely responsible for earning the film its R rating.
The New York Times
3.0
Sure, you cant judge a film by its running time, but the tightly budgeted action flick Bastille Day clocks in at a tidy 92 minutes and doesnt waste on ..
Telegraph
4.0
But he finds himself back on the street, teaming up with an American pickpocket (Richard Madden) who gets more than he bargained for when he snatches ..
2.5
The Take: a popcorn movie about a pickpocket, CIA agent Richard Madden (left) plays a pickpocket and Idris Elba is a U.S. agent who join forces in pur ..
San Francisco Chronicle
3.0
Forget Bond: we need to see Big Dris in a Crank style action a palooza.It rarely makes sense the script vastly overestimates the power of the hashtag ..
2.5
Stick around through the credits of The Take..Yeah, thats Idris Elba, the films star, crooning the title tune The Road Less Traveled.
Rogers Movie Nation
3.0
Hes taken on tired genre ideas and made them feel at least semi fresh again, with secure work on the terrifying Eden Lake and the unexpectedly digesti ..
Blu Ray
3.8
It is, though, a strangely enjoyable and ultimately satisfying one.
Mark Reviews Movies
2.0
But fortunately the new Idris Elba flick doesnt aspire to such silly pretensions.
The Times
2.0
Idris Elba as a brutal yet charming Bourne esque CIA operative is the sole pleasure on offer in Bastille Day, a film that is otherwise close to ill co ..
The Times
3.0
Such shameless embracing of cliches is presumably intended to be part of its charm, as it wears its love for the genre loud and proud.
Radio Times
3.0
Bastille Day is a cheesy but enjoyable Paris set thriller which underlines Idrs Elbas fast rising credentials as an action hero.
Independent
1.5
The plot of The Take, though, is a lazily formulaic mess, synthesizing so many stock elements from thrillers of the past three decades that it never d ..
Film Journal
1.5
Its neither silly enough to be genuinely funny nor serious enough to be gripping.
2.0
Talk about bad timing.What ensues is clearly supposed to be a big commercial thriller, the sort of high octane, Friday night production we critics are ..
Daily Mail
3.0
Its testament to Elbas immense screen presence that his lone wolf has instant bite.
Daily Mail
3.0
Nor is it even V for Vendetta, with the sight of anti fascist rioters feeling ill conceived.
Flim List
4.0
Paris makes a stunning backdrop in this no holds barred thriller in which Idris Elba makes a towering impression as a CIA agent to Richard Maddens str ..
1.5
Its neither silly enough to be genuinely funny nor serious enough to be gripping.
Flickfilosopher
2.0
The muddy cinematography manages to make such famously pulchritudinous people as Elba and Kelly Reilly look as if theyve just stumbled damply in from ..
The Irish Times
4.0
Still: quite thrilling.Watkins followed it up in 2012 with the slow burn horror of The Woman in Black, with Daniel Radcliffe, properly terrifying and ..
Standard
2.5
Let the record show that neither tact nor timing are the strong suits of this so so new action thriller.
Herald Sun
2.0
Jovial quips and high octane stunts grasp attention before the story veers through genre tent poles into a claptrap finale thats so gratingly inane it ..
Hey U Guys
3.0
Sure, Watkins makes questionable choices with the script, but his ambition to marry big budget commercial thrills with a kinetic, in your face shootin ..
Film Ink
2.5
Is it too soon to use this as the premise for a lighthearted action thriller
The Age
2.5
The actors reputation stems from sustained performances on two television drama series, The Wire and Luther, and he has not had a film role as nuanced ..
The Age
3.0
Elbas a one man show, even if supporting personas eat up his screentime; hes the sort of character that doesnt need a buddy cop relationship, despite ..
2.0
However, taken as a transient, high paced and familiar rock em, sock em kind of film, it packs quite a punch.
Cine Vue
2.5
It also does something I never thought could be done: It makes the consistently charismatic Idris Elba look unappealing.
La Weekly
4.0
But, if nothing else, it underlines how terrific the British actor would be as the next James Bond.
Mirror
2.0
Idris Elba gets his action man on in this solid if unspectacular Parisian genre work out.
Lw Lies
2.0
Its just a shame that when the action stops, someone says something stupid.
Nz Herald
3.0
Its the sort of unremarkable, by the numbers, borderline DTV fare that Luc Bessons EuropaCorp are fond of cranking out, but theres also something comf ..
Flicks
3.0
Its a cheesy and hackneyed action yarn that winks at the camera and just about gets away with it. It does so mainly because of Idris Elba, an actor wi ..
Independent Ie
3.0
But it recovers well and becomes a well paced, enjoyable action thriller.
Independent Ie
2.5
So while the plot is preposterous, the film has an edgier, more jaggedly comical sensibility that makes it entertaining.
Contact Music
3.0
Its entertaining enough if you stick your brain in Park, but once the action stops youll find your plate devoid of food for thought.
The Arts Desk
3.0
Alongside hit and miss attempts to scrap for real life conviction (framing the Muslims as terrorists is hot; using hashtags to start a riot is plain s ..
Scmp
2.5
Worse, Elba and Game Of Thrones actor Richard Maddens odd couple shtick sorely lacks chemistry.
Straits Times
2.0
Its not the worst film in the world, but it is painfully mediocre.
One Room With A View
3.0
So, in short, its a pretty fun action movie; a wasted opportunity in some places, but often enjoyable with a refreshing dynamic at the centre of it al ..
The Shiz Nit
2.8
Its got a charismatic lead, solid action and a dynamic that has plenty of room to grow.
Under The Radar Mag
2.0
Bullets are sprayed around with abandon but its the plot thats riddled with holes.
What So
1.5
Yet his performance is in service of material that, regardless of its pretensions of hot button timeliness, is unimaginative, retrograde pulp fit for ..
Film Journal International ..
2.0
Everything has a real Luc Besson feel about it, but not always in the good way.
Concrete Play Ground
3.5
What follows is a drama lifted by an entertaining script, old fashioned action scenes and a few surprising twists.
The Australian
3.0
Pay attention to the details and you may get rewarded at the end.
The New Paper
4.0
But the spooks at the CIAs secret Paris HQ have other ideas.Their fancy computer has taken a look at the CCTV footage and come back with a surprising ..
Daily Star
2.0
Nothing more than a charmless vehicle of entertainment with unfortunate connections to real life.
2.0
With its themes of espionage and terrorism, and plot twisting betrayals and secret identities, this is a fairly by the numbers American action flick.
Film Ireland
1.0
However, the characters adhere to a formula that has been well and truly flogged to death (will someone think about the HORSES!).Even with the short 9 ..
Graffiti With Punctuation
2.0
Actually, the only connection the film has to Bastille Day is that the story takes place in the days and hours ahead of the official celebration, but ..
Movie Chambers
2.5
ENOUGH of the opportunistic European terrorist thrillers, already.Do filmmakers have no shame
News
3.0
And oh boy, does it succeed on that level.He menaces with a suave meanness, brutally kicks ass and takes no prisoners, but still charms.
Iol Co Za
1.5
One of those thrillers in which the logic of the argument doesnt matter so much because of the effectiveness of the action scenes.
La Nación (Argentina)
1.5
Bastille Day can seem like a regular film, leaving whats interesting in the background. Turns out surprising, coming from a director like Watkins.
4.5
A movie that just entertains and might seem to fail at times but some car chases and Idris Elbas performance makes it work.
Excelsior
3.0
Despite its flaws, this is a pacey and enjoyable thriller enlivened by exciting action sequences and a rock solid central performance from Idris Elba.
Wow 247
3.0
As far as action films go, the raised expectations of the first half of the film arguably heighten the disappointment of the cliched finale.
Rescu
3.5
But it is embedded as the climax to a sequence so thrilling it barely registers, such is the economy of great filmmaking.
3.0
Its a little dry at times but the story is interesting and compelling.This feels more like a spinoff of a TV show than a standalone movie though.
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