“I don’t know who you are, but if you don’t let my daughter go, I will find you, and I will kill you.”
Taken is another one of those silly, corny, techno thrillers where every scenario and action sequence is completely blown out of proportion and not plausible in any size, shape or form. But guess what? People eat this type of shit up! It’s filled with non-stop action, keeps you on the edge of your seat, and has you saying either, “this guy is badass” or “how the hell did he just do that?”
I’m going to start off by saying I DESPISE these type of films, but this time it was different. Taken had one thing that other silly, corny, techno thrillers don’t have, a credible actor with superlative skills in the art of characterizing. All I’m going to say is that if this movie had starred anyone else other than Liam Neeson for the lead role, I wouldn’t have put my time or two cents into this film.
Taken proves one thing and one thing only. An extraordinary actor can make a careless and deficient film viewable and somewhat enjoyable for the masses.
Taken is about a retired CIA agent by the name of Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) who is seperated from his wife and most importantly his daughter Kimmie. Kimmie lives with her mom and her very rich step father from whom she gets practically anything she wants or desires. despite the fact that Bryan doesn’t see his daughter much, she’s the most important thing to him in the world and he will stop at nothing to keep her happy and safe. One day, Kimmie proposes and/or requests to her father to sign a legal form to allow her to travel to Paris with her friends because shes under-age. Bryan is quite skeptical about allowing her to do this and doesn’t know if it is the best of ideas considering she is only 17 years old. Keeping in mind that Bryan’s job involved keeping people and things safe, you can sort of sense that he is a very uptight yet protective father. Eventually Bryan’s ex-wife (Kimmie’s mother) coerces Bryan into signing the document to let Kimmie go to Paris. Bryan believes he never did it on his own volition and never really had a choice. He trusts his daughter to do the right thing and to be safe with her friends. Unfortunately to Bryan’s dismay his trust in her fails the instant she arrives as she her and her friend are kidnapped by lurking European shadows who keep quite the low profile. Bryan has 96 hours to find and save his daughter, or else he might never see her again.
Taken has recieved 3 stars out of 5.
1 star= Bad Movie
2 stars= Needs Improvement
3 stars= Good Movie
4 stars= Very Good Movie
5 stars= Superior Film
