Take the Night

Set up for a good action thriller, but fails heavily at the key moments of the plot, but the little twist in the end are able to mend a little bit. So if you ever should like to prank kidnap your own family, check out well on beforehand who to use.

The production goes from brilliant to mediocre and back multipel times, and the acting keeps the same bait, the story was good but the complexity of making a good peformance just isnt perfect. Therefore just a weak 6 from the grumpy old man.

Take the Night is a thrilling movie from beginning to end with a prank kidnapping, unexpected plot twists and strong acting from the entire cast. Great cinematography, lighting and music. Impressive first feature film by the director.

Take the Night has an entertaining premise and a mildly intriguing story. Unfortunately it's a mostly low-quality movie, especially with the acting and dialogue. It's not put together very well and is surprisingly slow for such a short movie. The best part is the musical score. I didn't hate watching it, but it's definitely not good. (1 viewing, 7/13/2022)

Heist drama, not necessarily a heist thriller. Lot's of emotional weight many of the characters carry with them. Overall well done and a fairly tight 90 minutes.

I enjoyed the writer was able to voice characters that truly felt separate/distinct from each other.

I'll start off by saying that I did actually enjoy this movie, I feel it had a great story-line and had enough going on that I never lost interest. The premise is not a secret, the "screw up" brother wants the "smart" brother to enjoy his birthday; they are wealthy. The "smart" brother works too much. Roy Huang plays Willian Chang the "screw up" brother, and Sam Song Li plays Robert, the overworked brother. William decides to have his brother kidnaped and force him to loosen up, so he hires some guy he doesn't know to take Robert after he leaves work.

The rest of the story is filled with questions and decent story that shows who, what, where, why and how for both the antagonist and the protagonist.

My big problem with this movie is that I feel Seth McTigue overacts in every scene. His character is Chad; he's the bad guy, and I get it that Chad is conflicted, but c'mon man. I feel his overacting was so severe, it made me question the other actors in the movie even though they did fine. I've always believed that you don't need a-list actors to pull off a great movie, but you do need actors that do a decent job playing a role. You can't take yourself TOO seriously, or you come off too stoic and overact your role. Brenna Keel Cook had a significant role and did a great job as did the other two bad guys. Matter of a fact, all of the remaining actors pulled off their roles equally well, but I honestly think Seth McTigue hurt this movie more that he helped it by casting himself as the antagonist.

The cinematography was actually pretty well done, I love the angles, the lighting, the feel. Some of the long-held poses became distracting, but not too over the top. I get it, a good looking guy like Roy Huang giving us a silhouette in the perfect lighting. But lets not hold that pose too long, else you over-do a moment.

Overall the movie was enjoyable, but I gotta be honest and say that this movie would have been 10 time better had there been an actor cast as Chad that didn't overdo the role.