Bastille Day

Some movies that are 3 hours long just fly by, this one, 90 minutes long but seems to drag on forever!! Seems like they just got Idris Elba because they thought he's a cool and talented actor and just threw up a $50 movie around him. Stupid plot, shallow, superficial under-developed characters that it's hard to even care about and naff script. Jeez even the music credits are awful. Some are saying Elba could be the new James Bond, not on the back of this he won't be.

Pretty good, for what it is. 'Bastille Day', or 'The Take' for us in my neck of the woods, is a sound action thriller that suitably entertains. Idris Elba has played this sorta role many a time but there's no doubting how strongly he performs in such films. He and co-star Richard Madden are sporting distracting (at least to someone who knows them more for their native tongue) accents, but are a solid pairing... their (admittedly somewhat minimal) buddy cop-esque banter isn't the best, though. Elba also appears in the end credits singing... not to great effect, I gotta say. Don't get me wrong I know that guy can very much do music, it's just that this song is, erm, not his strongest work, let's just say that. It's largely predictable, though it does things in a manner that kept me interested and enjoying what I was setting eyes on. So it gets a pass from yours truly.