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Apr 19, 2016 · Film Review: ‘Bastille Day’. Idris Elba serves up his most persuasive 007 audition yet in James Watkins' formulaic but well-choreographed actioner. By Guy Lodge. Courtesy of Studiocanal.
Nov 18, 2016 · Bastille Day proves Idris Elba is an action hero in waiting -- specifically, waiting for a script that deserves his talents. Read Critics Reviews
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Apr 16, 2016 · Dir. James Watkins. UK/Fr, 2016, 92 mins. Idris Elba stalks his way through the small-but-ambitious UK-France thriller Bastille Day like a Bond-in-training, playing a lone wolf FBI operative...
Apr 22, 2016 · Bastille Day review. Idris Elba shines and Richard Madden snarks in Paris-set terrorism-tinged action movie Bastille Day... It’s about time that Idris Elba took centre stage in a big screen...
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By Leigh Singer
Updated: Nov 11, 2016 10:41 pm
Posted: Apr 22, 2016 9:28 am
Bastille Day has been retitled The Take for its North American release, opening November 16, 2016.
If you mess with Idris Elba, he will look for you, he will find you, and he will… well, you know the drill by now, n’est-ce pas? Bastille Day certainly does, casting this so-hot-right-now British star as one of the modern Euro-thriller’s regulation shoot-first-ask-no-questions-whatsoever mavericks.
Nothing is going to stop one-man CIA wrecking crew Sean Briar from foiling a potential terrorist attack on France’s national holiday: not those spoilsport desk jockeys trying to stop the habitual ass-kickings he doles out to assorted swarthy, disposable henchmen; and certainly not the dozy thugs themselves, whose entire plot hinges on inciting mob riots through social media mobilization. “The hashtags will push it over!” crows one villain in deadly earnest, obviously oblivious to Generation Y’s one-click slacktivism.
A schizophrenic mix of smart concepts and head-slapping stupidity, well-crafted scenes and clichéd spy nonsense, Bastille Day wants to be more than just another Euro-thriller but ultimately is cause for celebration only to hardcore fans of Idris Elba and undemanding action.
Apr 19, 2016 · ‘Bastille Day’: Film Review. Idris Elba ('Luther') and Richard Madden ('Game of Thrones') star as a CIA tough guy and a pickpocket forced to pal up in this Paris-set action film.
BASTILLE DAY is a solid action thriller made as a collaboration between Great Britain and France. I watched it under the ludicrous re-titling THE TAKE. Essentially this is a film in the style of intense French action cinema like MEA CULPA, with an added British cast doing American accents.
