Taken (2009)
While vacationing with a friend in Paris, an American girl is kidnapped by a gang of human traffickers intent on selling her into forced prostitution. Working against the clock, her ex-spy father must pull out all the stops to save her. But with his best years possibly behind him, the job may be more than he can handle.
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Waste of time
So much average
Redundant and unnecessary.
Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
I become a huge fan of Liam after I watch the movie. I watch the movie years before yesterday I watch it again still thrilling. Brayan the former CIA agent he had a daughter Kim and ex wife Lenore his ex married a wealthy business man Brayan work as a security staff for popular people's for living. The Kim theenage daughter has plan to European tour but it end it on tragedy she had kidnapped by gangsters mostly the use women for sex trafficking. Beofre the kidnapping Brayan ask Kim to expain about the Persons image tattoos, height, look the conventions between Marko(who take Brayan daughter) is superb then back to Spain and search for taxi driver where she first met a airport Then he ask help to a friend intelligent agent he works on his own way to search sex trafficking areas he rescued a women gunfight. Brayn get information rescued when where they keep Kim take marko and get I information about auction of virgin women for high rates finally Bryan reach the ship where Kim take after auction he kill the people and rescue his daughter and get back to home. And he take her to sheeran the singer to take lessons for Kim Brayan is security guard for sheeran.
Taken has been widely considered a great cinematic action film experience as it combines action and suspense and overall thrills from start to finish. Having seen the sequels before the original, one can agree that the original does live up to the hype and is massively more concise and arguably the best film of the franchise. Liam Neeson plays his role as one should and is convincing in the role, as well as the supporting cast of the daughter played by Maggie Grace and his ex-wife played by Famke Janssen. Another great thing about Taken is the length of the film, as we have seen many action films drag on with little subplots we do not care for, but with Taken the film isn't too long and every piece of screen time is vital. Overall, Taken delivers on what it should as an intense and thrilling action piece of art.
This movie single handily solidified Liam Neeson as one of the best action leads in modern films. He expertly handles the drama and intensity of the story as well as the phenomenal action sequences. He's done action before this and after this but this is the only must see. It's a very re-watchable movie with unnecessary sequels, just stick with the original.
The acting is awful, the story ridiculous, the editing of Neeson in "action" is amateurish, the fight scenes are laughable....this is a movie barely worth watching once. Took me 9 years to finally get to it, but obviously I didn't miss anything worthwhile. Why this movie made it big (other than the anti-Muslim feelings whipped up globally) and worse, why it's rated 7.8 here, is beyond me. Critics clearly get it right on Rotten Tomatoes, at 58%.