Bastille Day (2016)

My Review

“Bastille Day” is an action film about a rogue CIA agent who forms an unlikely partnership with a pickpocket to stop a terrorist conspiracy in Paris. Idris Elba and Richard Madden star in an exciting, though formulaic, action-adventure movie adequately directed by James Watkins (“Eden Lake” 2008), who co-wrote the screenplay with Andrew Baldwin.

Elba and Madden have good chemistry in this film, although there is no mention of a sequel. Co-stars include Kelly Reilly, Charlotte Le Bon, Eriq Ebouaney, Jose Garcia, Thierry Godard, Anatol Yusef, Arieh Worthalter, and Stephane Caillard as Beatrice. The watchable “Bastille Day” was popular at the international box office for StudioCanal, Anonymous Content, Vendome Pictures, TF1 Film Productions, and High Top Releasing. The film was titled “The Take” when it was released in North America and on home video DVDs.