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Daughter (Priscilla Walker) taken by sex traffickers. Mom (Gillian White ) and dad (Michael Jai White) who both know martial arts have to get her back. The "twist" is mom was once a prisoner of the same guy.

Mickey Rourke reminded me of Ozzy without the accent. Girls were kept in a shed, not the idea spot for sex traffickers. They have very loose tie-wraps on their wrists. Nothing looked realistic. Action scenes lacked a Liam Neeson hurt aspect.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

This movie is terrible for these main reasons.

1. The heroine at the end shoots an unarmed man. The showdown between the heroine (Gillian White) and the villain (Mickey Rourke) was completely lame while a policeman and her husband watch it like they are at the theater sharing a bag of popcorn. She shoots the villain who does not have a weapon. Very anti-climatic!

It also make the heroine a murderer.

2. The husband abandons his daughter during an active shoot out so he can go watch along with the police detective, his wife shooting an unarmed man. Talk about irresponsible and bad parenting and reckless endangerment of a child.

3. The villainess played by (Jessica Uberuaga) is in love with Mickey Rourke because he treats her like crap, uses her as a sex slave, had her chained up at one point of the movie, and will kill her if he gets bored with her. I guess people in love will do anything. I don't think anyone would understand the motivation of this female character. It makes zero sense.

4. They make an effort to show how dedicated the police officer is in the film and how he cares only to have the Michael Jai White character say the police don't give a $#%^.

5. At the end they don't call the police until the shootout starts even though they could have done it when they were going to have the hostage swap. Instead they rely on the sharpshooting skills of some redneck with rifle and scope that couldn't hit a bull in the backside with a hand full of cantaloupes. Insane!

Was there a positive. I felt the lead Gillian White did okay and had some good action scenes at the start of the movie. The camera man had some excellent and scenic wide shots in the film.

This was an awful attempt at a thriller that singularly wastes the talents of Michael Jai White, one of the toughest fighters working in B-movie cinema today. He plays a guy whose daughter is kidnapped by people smugglers, led by Mickey Rourke, looking unrecognisable in an extended cameo. The plot is muddled, the budget non-existent, the fight scenes disappointing; next, please!

I saw "Take Back", starring Mickey Rourke-The Masked Singer_tv, The Expendables; Michael Jai White-Arrow_tv, Black Dynamite_tv; Gillian White-The Young and the Restless_tv, Jackie Brown and James Russo-Django Unchained, Open Range.

This is a low budget martial arts action dud. I usually like martial arts movies but this one has bad acting and plot holes that you could drive a truck through. Mickey plays the villain and he is one of the worst things about this movie. His 'acting' is mostly just sitting around petting his dogs and trying to look villainous. Michael is a martial arts teacher that teaches his wife Gillian how to be a bad ass-she can even beat him up. Just in time, too, when she needs those skills to stop a bullying boyfriend from terrorizing a woman in a store. Gillian gets on tv and gets recognized by Mickey-they have a secret past connection-who sends guys to kill her. Gillian keeps maiming or killing the would be assassins which draws the attention of James, the detective investigating the cases. Sometimes, Mickey wants to kill Gillian and other times he doesn't-I said there were plot problems. There are even times when he could do things he earlier said he would do, and then he will just feed his dogs or just look off, menacingly.

It didn't have a rating but it had violence, language and sexual content-no nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 29 minutes.

It's not one that I would buy on DVD or rent, either. If you really want to see it, I would wait until it's on cable tv.

It's a great movie Gillian I've sent you a message on Instagram forget the negative people you're a great actor like your husband Michael J White I love your action roles I gave you 10 out of 10 look forward to your have a movies I'll send you a message on Instagram later from sajjad in england in my eyes you're a top actor I love your fighting roles. I will recommend your movies to my friends your films and Michaels films. I will message you later on Instagram anyway keep up the good work from england sajjad.

This film start with two women drinking at the bar, and they been kidnapped scene! As turnout, this film is about a couple(Brian, and Zara) need to team up to save their daughter "Audrey" from the kidnap of a crime boss "Patrick"! Entire film full of boring conversation, and annoying overuse scene! Such as, overuse of the walking scene, overuse of the searching scene, overuse of the driving scene, overuse of the staring scene, overuse of the lying on the floor scene, overuse of the blackout scene, overuse of the flashbacks scene, overuse of the arguing scene, overuse of the calling names scene, overuse of the news broadcasting scene, overuse of the watching TV scene, overuse of the checking phone scene, overuse of the drinking scene, and overuse of the eating scene! Make the film unwatchable! All the action scene have blood, and things broken at certain point, but overall portray by sideways, and occur in too short of time! Make the film frustrated to watch! At the end, Zara killed Patrick, and save Audrey! That's it! Wasting time to watch!

"Don't you remember me?" Ah when someone says that, it's never really a welcoming sign.

Anyway 2021's Take Back is my latest write-up. By definition, the words take back refer to reclaiming possession of something. In the film Take Back, a married couple is trying to reclaim possession of their daughter who is being kidnapped by sex traffickers. Take Back is a shade watchable but it doesn't equal the intensity of the similar Traffik from three years ago. That flick involving the forced labor of women was pretty darn upsetting.

Movie comparisons aside, Take Back is an action/thriller that has a little bit of both. It's a somewhat dangerous pic in which no one really feels safe throughout. There's plenty of hand-to-hand combat, a few remorseless killings, a couple of shootouts, and one proposed ego trip by Mr. Russell Jones (he acts as co-producer, extra, production designer, and art director).

Yeah Take Back moves at decent clip and yeah, the acting is sort of amicable. But as Roger Murtaugh once said in an 80s action relic, the overall outline here is uh, "pretty thin".

Take Back has a lot of brooding characters (with Mickey Rourke acting like well, Mickey Rourke) and everyone pretty much appears mean-spirited and nasty. But the filmmakers obviously didn't do enough research with the concept of captivity in cinema. The script by rookie Zach Zerries is pretty vague as it presents some holes in the so-called trafficking mythos. I mean not that I condone torment but those scenes are so quickly cut you don't know exactly what's going on.

Bottom line: I don't want a "take back" so I'm going with a mixed review. Check out 2018's Traffik (mentioned earlier) if you haven't already. It just goes deeper down the rabbit hole of coercing and abduction. Furthermore, it does so without the inching folly.