All star cast…check! Action, action and more action…check! A total guy’s guy movie…check! Lots of eye candy for the wives and girlfriends…check and check! I had the pleasure of attending the recent red carpet screening of the film Takers starring every really hot guy in Hollywood, and I gotta tell you, this is just a good, old fashioned entertaining movie. Perfect summer fare! The film is about a somewhat eclectic group of guys who make their living robbing banks. I caught up with one of the film’s stars, Paul Walker, who talked about the film and sharing the set with one of the most iconic film characters in movie history.

There is a certain honor and code among these guys in spite of the fact that they are at the core a bunch of thieves.
The rule is, I guess, the more frequently you play with fire, the better chance you have of getting burned. So these guys would only pull one job a year and give things time to cool off before they would even begin to entertain pulling another job.

So what entices them to go against the code?
The job they’ve always wanted to pull off that they were just so close to being capable of pulling off, but there was just always something or for some reason they would fall short. It’s finally all come together just immediately after pulling off a really successful job; so, they get suckered into it.

There were some pretty heavy hitters in this film. What was it like around the set with all that star power?
I think people that are born, bred and raised here (in LA where the film was shot) want to be cool about it and say, “Hey it’s business as usual. There’s a film crew over there.” But the kid in all of us still can’t help but get a little excited, and inquiring minds want to know. People would get all fired up when they found out that Chris Brown or T.I. or Hayden Christensen was around the corner. I got a few times, “Hey, you mean Anakin is over there?” He’ll never be able to live that down.

How do you deal with all the attention?
I like it. This is movieland, right here.

Well, I liked this movie. You can check it out and decide for yourself this week when the film opens nationwide. Takers is rated PG-13 for intense action sequences, some violence and language. For all of this week’s new releases and more of your favorite celebs, check out my show Reel Critics on Time Warner Cable Video on Demand under the North Texas Programming tab!