The Taking

When IMDb used to have a forum section for each movie, people would often make the clichéd "Worst movie ever" post. I challenge anyone who ever made such a post to compare whatever movie they were writing about to this one.

There are no redeeming features in this film except for the tittle and genre. It is across the board awful. The dialog is atrocious. The score is horrible. The script is nonexistent.

I can't fathom how this could ever have been made let alone distributed. It can only be because it's a great title for a horror film. Anyone who actually watched it would just be dumbfounded at what they had just seen.

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!

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.

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.

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.