Take Me (2001/Thriller Mini-Series)
Picture: C+
Sound: C+ Extras: D Episodes: C-
Robeson Green is a good actor, but gets wasted beyond his
control in the awfully disappointing would-be Sex Mystery Thriller Take Me,
a shockingly bad 2001 exercise in futility from writer Caleb Ranson and
director Alex Pillai. A couple is out
to save their rocky marriage, only to be caught in a “web” of deceit and plot
twist. Unfortunately, the sex is
juvenile and 300 minutes (!!!) far more about bad and often clichéd twists than
people or plot.
I kept watching, hoping this might pick up, but I instead
had to keep picking myself up from falling asleep. The neighborhood is never sinister, the people are all boring and
might as well all be in on something bad since they obviously have nothing
better to do with their lives. Skip
this one, or you might set a yawning record.
The 1.78 X 1 image was shot in digital High Definition and
is both soft and color poor throughout, with forgettable form and tired
editing. The Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
has surprisingly weak surrounds and boring music to boot. There are no extras and that’s good, because
enough is enough.
- Nicholas Sheffo
