Billionaire Ransom

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Billionaire Ransom

Released Aug 19, 2016

1h 47m

Mystery & Thriller

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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

This hybrid of survivalist action and young-adult drama remains watchable from start to finish, even if it never becomes essential.

Aug 18, 2016

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Brian Costello

Common Sense Media

Drunk driving, violence, in teen-survival action movie.

Rated: 2/5

Mar 1, 2019

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John Noonan

FILMINK (Australia)

...a bloodless 80s throwback that never really goes anywhere.

Rated: 10/20

Nov 10, 2016

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Maitland McDonagh

Film Journal International

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.

Aug 18, 2016

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Andrew Marshall

Starburst

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.

Rated: 3/10

Jul 11, 2016

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kalsolar

Maybe I'm in the minority here but this movie held my attention from beginning to end. The direction was good throughout and while the ending was predictable I was invested in the characters and the story as a whole.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/09/23

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laurie s

There were some silly plot holes, mainly concerning assault weapons but in the hands of a decent director it could have been much better.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

Die Hard on a Scottish island that doubles as a character-building boot-camp that specializes in teaching spoiled rich twenty-somethings survival skills.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/23/23

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farah r

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.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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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?

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/16/23

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Audience Member

A good sofa movie. Ed Eastwick is good, strange seeing him as an Englishman.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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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: Pinewood Studios, Orion Pictures
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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