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Billionaire Ransom

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A group of difficult, rich teenagers must fight for their lives when their remote school is taken over by dangerous criminals.
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Noel Murray Los Angeles Times 08/18/2016
This hybrid of survivalist action and young-adult drama remains watchable from start to finish, even if it never becomes essential. Go to Full Review
Brian Costello Common Sense Media 03/01/2019
2/5
Drunk driving, violence, in teen-survival action movie. Go to Full Review
John Noonan FILMINK (Australia) 11/10/2016
10/20
...a bloodless 80s throwback that never really goes anywhere. Go to Full Review
Maitland McDonagh Film Journal International 08/18/2016
Kidnappers hold eight rich kids for ransom in this wilderness-survival thriller that holds few surprises but makes excellent use of its rocky island locations. Go to Full Review
Andrew Marshall Starburst 07/11/2016
3/10
A couple of distinctive moments stand out amidst the tedium, such as a rather innovative use for a compound fracture, but everything about Take Down is an overfamiliar slog from start to finish that holds no surprises or excitement. Go to Full Review
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08/22/2017 Die Hard on a Scottish island that doubles as a character-building boot-camp that specializes in teaching spoiled rich twenty-somethings survival skills. See more farah r @Farah 06/29/2017 Surprisingly very entertaining from start to finish. Take Down might not be memorable, but this survivalist thriller feels like a Hunger Games spinoff and a highly enjoyable one at that. See more 05/03/2017 absolutely ridiculous! The acting is beyond bad. The one actress who plays Amy clearly is Australian, as her accent flips between that and some weird hybrid valley girl I don't know what she's trying to do accent. The fight scene was absolutely ridiculous. Amy breaks her arm, her bone is sticking out and she manages to continue on fighting, and then manages to kill the other person by stabbing her in the neck with said exposed bone. If you wanted this to be remotely believable this is not it. I cringed and had to fast forward most of it. It was terrible. Don't waste your time. Can you even give 0 stars here? See more 10/15/2016 A good sofa movie. Ed Eastwick is good, strange seeing him as an Englishman. See more 08/30/2016 A movie that holds few to no surprises, but makes excellent use of its rocky island locations. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A group of difficult, rich teenagers must fight for their lives when their remote school is taken over by dangerous criminals.
Director
Jim Gillespie
Producer
Ed Elbert, Sarah Black, Alex Brown
Screenwriter
Alexander Ignon
Distributor
Gravitas Ventures
Production Co
Orion Pictures, Pinewood Studios
Genre
Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 19, 2016, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 17, 2016
Runtime
1h 47m
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