The Taking (2013)

What a waste of my time!!!

Did you people see the same film I saw?

Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Blistering performances.

I am not quite sure what they thought when they were directing this... Even from an 'art' perspective there is nothing for filling within this film. In fact a story line from coronation street has more 'logic' too it.Random sex scenes with no correlation to the apparent story line. Lots of scenes involving the sun from behind the trees.I lasted 20 minutes with the film, skipped through and just thought - "just no". Would not recommend to anyone to watch in fact, 20 minutes of my life wasted i'll never get back.

I was expecting hell on earth. I was waiting for the worst piece of cinema ever. I expected junk. And that was not it. It's existential story telling and is more about interpretation than vapid force feeding of the plot. So obviously some might despise because they're not familiar. Although experimental filmmaking is definitely not everyones style of story telling, I can still name a few horror films that were worse: "House of Wax", "Boogeyman", "Alone in the Dark", "The Devil Inside", "Texas 3D", "Ice Cream Man", "Troll 2", "Human Centipede", "Paranormal Activity 2 and 3 and 4 and 5", "Nightmare on Elm Street Remake", "Fear Dot Com", "When a Stranger Calls Remake", "Black Christmas Remake", "Killer Klowns from Outer Space", "Wicker Man Remake", and all of Rob Zombie's films - none of which cost less to make than "The Taking"Don't get me wrong, there is still a large part of "The Taking" that is difficult to sit through, irritating to listen to and hilarious at points that leaves it far behind experimental films such as "Eraserhead", "Naked Lunch", "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and "The Pillow Book"but the filmmakers have taken a leap in a different direction compared to many larger budget horror films on offer. And for that reason I am eager to see where they go next.The fat naked man was great... the thud of that fall was hilarious - oh, its after 10min, you didn't see it? Shame, it was the best part of it all.True horror fans might want to watch this, I mean we love "Army of Darkness", we do, but its far from stellar story telling, so why not give the avant-garde, indie horror filmmakers a chance? Because it sucks nonetheless, but I'll watch it again over "House of Wax"

Wow this was terrible. I lasted more than some of the other viewers. I lasted almost 40 minutes and then just shut the piece of crap off. I felt my time was better spent writing this review than sitting through that last half of the movie. I don't even write reviews. This is my first one. If a movie makes me create an IMDb account just to write a poor review then the movie has to be horrendous.I only watched this movie because it WAS rated so poorly and I felt like I needed a good laugh in the morning. I've seen better "movies" on Tosh.O's Viewers Upload segment. The Plot made no sense if there was even a plot at all. It was confusing and all over the place. What the heck was this even about? There wasn't even much dialogue. This movie would have been better if they just made it a silent movie. It still wouldn't have made any sense but at least we wouldn't have had to listen to the crappy music, ghost voice and cheesy sound bites.The constant flow of random images and still shots that made no sense or ties to the story at that moment. Random shots of trees, spiders and people that pop up every minute or so. The same still shot of the forest kept repeating every time they tried to make an eerie transition. The ghost voice, it was so bad that I laughed every time I heard it.This was just a terrible movie which was poorly written and directed. Actually, this was just a terrible movie in every which way you can think of. Can we even call it a movie? A movie has a plot with a beginning and an end that flows nicely. This was just a mish mash of still shots, live action scenes, bad sound effects and music all mixed into one big bowl of crap.The people who made this movie are probably celebrating and high five'n each other because they made a movie and got it released on DVD. Its like bragging and boasting that you are dating the ugliest girl in school. You don't brag about something like that. You hang your head in shame and try to think of ways to kill yourself.Overall this movie sucked. Flat out sucked. The writers, directors,editors and camera men shouldn't be allowed to write a script, step foot onto a movie set or touch a camera ever again. Your attempt at making a decent movie failed and your credibility in the movie industry is forever tainted.

First, I want to say I love Horror flicks and that is what this one was suppose to be.This film could not even be so lucky to ever be considered a b movie, its more like a D movie meaning Don't waste your time. If someone was to ask me what this film is about I would have to tell them I don't know.I watched the movie before going to the IMDb and after watching it and having no comprehension I just had to see what the IMDb said about this horrible movie. But,I will tell you what i did see....that there was no plot, a bunch of useless shots of the woods, one goth looking person, a guy tied to a tree and I guess his girlfriend, a handful of people that were not acting, after all, there was hardly any dialogue.lest I not forget the stupid noise that I guess is suppose to be scary music as well as inaudible talking? I do not like giving bad reviews and I always look at the good amongst the bad but this one is all bad! I honestly thought that it was so bad that IMDb would not have it in there data base! My advice is skip this one.