Taken

January. 30,2009      PG-13
Rating:
7.7
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Liam Neeson as  Bryan Mills
Maggie Grace as  Kim Mills
Leland Orser as  Sam Gilroy
Famke Janssen as  Lenore St John
Jon Gries as  Mark Casey
David Warshofsky as  Bernie Harris
Holly Valance as  Sheerah
Katie Cassidy as  Amanda
Xander Berkeley as  Stuart St John
Olivier Rabourdin as  Jean-Claude Pitrel

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Reviews

Alicia
2009/01/30

I love this movie so much

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Baseshment
2009/01/31

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

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ThedevilChoose
2009/02/01

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

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filippaberry84
2009/02/02

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

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cricketbat
2009/02/03

Even though it's fairly predictable film with a long string of coincidences, Taken is a refreshing vengeance movie. Every now and then it's fun to see the good guy pummel the bad guys and come out completely unscathed. So turn off your brain and enjoy seeing Liam Neeson play Jack Bauer.

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rated_tripler_superstar
2009/02/04

A couple years after Taken came out I was in my hotel room and decided to finally give Taken a chance. I was so impressed that when I got back home I went out and bought it. If you haven't seen it watch the unrated version. More intense and better action scenes than the PG-13 version of the film.

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Mike LeMar
2009/02/05

The dad knows how messed up it is overseas and couldn't've tried harder to explain that to his wife and daughter, who couldn't've acted like more of jerks about being mad at him for not letting her go. They act extremely naive and the wife, who's already divorced him, punches him below the belt, calling him "pathetic" before leaving him high and dry at the restaurant. When all's said and done, he doesn't react realistically coldly toward them like he should. He's way to soft. Why would the wife divorce him and get with some idiot instead who's as naive as she?

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Davis P
2009/02/06

Taken (2008) is a pretty entertaining action film that features good acting all around. If I had to sum up the basis of this movie in one sentence, that would be it. It's not the best action film I've seen, it's just pretty good. The movie has been overrated, a 7.8 rating is just too high for this one. It's not worthy of a 7.8 IMDb rating. Yes, Liam Neeson is good in the starring role, even if some of his acting is a little cheesy at times. Maggie Grace is fine, I honestly wasn't impressed by her performance, but I didn't think she was bad. And the rest of the cast is fine too. The action is done very well if that's what you're looking for. The movie will keep your attention 80% of the time. I really don't know why the movie has been loved to the point it has been, I just see it as another pretty good action movie, to be honest it's not all that different from the other action movies that regularly come out. I do recommend the film if you like action, if you'd like something deeper than a regular action movie, then I would say maybe keep looking. I enjoyed it a fair amount, but I wouldn't be all too hyped to watch it again. 7/10.

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