Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Console best movie i've ever seen.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

sandrazas-530-533196 Took me a while to decide to watch this series, I normally shy away from intense violence on screen. However, I do not regret for a second watching it. Powerful and heart wrenching tale. Beautifully directed and produced. Incredible performances by the whole cast. It'll stay with me for a long time.

The Couchpotatoes I watched the four episodes of this mini-series in one go. That's how good it is. Once you're in the story you want to know what's coming. All actors did a great job I thought, but the best actor had to be Tom Hardy playing Freddie Jackson. Freddie Jackson, just released from prison, immediately picks up his criminal career, only thinking about his interests. He quickly becomes a very selfish and arrogant character that you almost hate immediately. And Tom Hardy plays this role perfectly. A brilliant performance if you ask me. The story itself is a gangster story with a lot of drama going on. You get sucked into the story and that's a good thing. For a short television series you can't get much better then The Take.

edl666 This is not a show about crime or the "mafia", it is a story about two families and especially two sisters who live with some criminals and have to cope with it. There is not much happening on the crime-side of the story and the title is absolutely misleading and wrong. It is no thriller, it is a family-drama about bad, stupid, sad and helpless people. And it gets really tiresome after a while, because Tom Hardy plays a major idiot-bad-ass and you know from the very first scenes that this guy will achieve nothing and ruin everything. And then you can watch the decline of two families ... Yes, the performances are all great. Great and depressing, because there is nothing in that drama that will lighten your mood or entertain you in a friendly way. And it is absolutely predictable, except for the very end, that contained a small surprise. Don't get me wrong: The series is not bad at all, no, but the label is wrong and I expected something else. I did not plan to see crying and desperate women who are doomed by a psycho played by Hardy. This is what comes out when women write about the "mafia". Sorry, but that's the sad truth.

Jay_88 Martina Cole's "The Take", is by far one of the best British drama's I have ever seen. It has such a powerful and gripping storyline, which I find is a rarity. I have never seen acting as fantastic as Tom Hardy plays his character Freddie. They could not have chosen a finer actor and he deserves so much credit for this series alone. I actually did not see this on television, but I bought it on DVD, and as you can tell I do not regret my decision. I would highly recommend this to anyone and everyone. If you love British drama, then you will love this. It has everything from sheer grit to absolutely heart breaking consequences. You cannot watch this without feeling so many different emotions, whether it is tears of laughter or tears of sadness. It will by far be the best 3 hours you will ever watch and it will definitely be something you will want to watch again and again. Martina Cole's "The Take" is nothing short of sheer brilliance.J