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It's like making a film about a man who says he's going to make a sandwich and then makes a sandwich, or a film about a man who says he's going to point at a door and then points at a door. Thank God, Taken is so much fun. There's some neat character exposition at the start of film. The first we see of Liam Neeson, he's poring over the instruction manual of an unpurchased karaoke machine that he's spent months deliberating over.

As he wraps it, he obsessively creases the corners with his fingernails. A minute in, Taken could go one of two ways — it could either be the story of a man saving his daughter from human traffickers, or the story of Liam Neeson going on a murderous OCD freakout because he saw some wrongly aligned wallpaper.

Other than that, he's essentially TV agent Jack Bauer. A gruff, no-nonsense action hero who isn't afraid to break the rules to get what he wants and assumes that one-off displays of sadistic violence will make his daughter love him more than, say, 15 years of paternal attentiveness. Yes, I'm judging Liam Neeson. Yes, this is probably the stupidest thing I've ever done. I can't be alone in thinking that the world would probably be a better place if Liam Neeson hadn't gone to all that trouble to save his daughter.

Spoiled, clearly at least a decade older than she claims to be, and in possession of a run that makes her look as if she's trying to fend off a relentless moth attack. She can barely even set foot outside an airport before she's trafficked by literally the first person she sees.

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She's a girl that only a compulsively violent father could love. I mean, her idea of a fun summer is following U2 around Europe.

U2, for crying out loud. The girl is Some people are just better off being sold into slavery. The central sequence in Taken is, of course, The Speech. The closest that the film gets to being truly gripping is the one where Liam Neeson, as calmly as possible, explains to his daughter that she's about to be abducted.

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Luc Besson Robert Mark Kamen. Retrieved September 18, Retrieved February 22, Retrieved March 31, Retrieved January 26, Retrieved January 8, Retrieved February 7, Retrieved January 9, Taken Taken 2 Taken 3. The Search for Sophie Parker Tooken. Disgraced Secret Service agent and former presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped inside the White House in the wake of a terrorist attack; using his inside knowledge, Banning works with national security to rescue the President from his kidnappers.

While on a tour of the White House with his young daughter, a Capitol policeman springs into action to save his child and protect the president from a heavily armed group of paramilitary invaders. When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants. Mobster and hit man Jimmy Conlon has one night to figure out where his loyalties lie: Frank is hired to "transport" packages for unknown clients and has made a very good living doing so.

But when asked to move a package that begins moving, complications arise. Seventeen year-old Kim is the pride and joy of her father Bryan Mills. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. Kim manages to convince her reluctant father to allow her to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When the girls arrive in Paris they share a cab with a stranger named Peter, and Amanda lets it slip that they are alone in Paris. Using this information an Albanian gang of human traffickers kidnaps the girls.

Kim barely has time to call her father and give him information. Her father gets to speak briefly to one of the kidnappers and he promises to kill the kidnappers if they do not let his daughter go free. The kidnapper wishes him "good luck," so Bryan Mills travels to Paris to search for his daughter and her friend. I'm still under the influence of this movie, so my comment is likely to be superlative! I went to this movie, knowing that one of the writers and the director were both French, and since I've seen some not-so-impressive movies almost fell asleep , i was really skeptical.

BUT this one proved to be a great action movie. The best movie to compare with Taken is Hit-man. The idea is somewhat the same lots of action, shots, flying bullets etc - though the motive for the actions are not money. But the level of realism, the motivation of the character, the cold blood which moves him on makes this flick a good option to choose when selecting a movie. Liam Neeson does a great performance, perfectly interpreting his role of a former spy.

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As he says in one of his lines, he's "retired, but not dead", having an opportunity to show everyone what he knows to do best. The movie covers a hot topic too, kidnapping young women to force them to prostitute, and all the business this involves.

TAKEN [2009] Scene: Interrogating Marko.

You get to see the kind of people are supporting these arrangements and what it takes for the victims to be there. Of course, the movie has very small, almost invisible drawbacks, like some lines in a wrong language english instead of french and some Rambo - stuff, but the overall impression is simple: