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- Former CIA agent Bryan Mills reluctantly agrees to let his 17 year old daughter Kim go to Paris on a trip. His ex-wife Lenore and her new husband Stuart are all for it and Kim sets off with a friend. On arrival in Paris however, Kim and her friend are kidnapped by mobsters running a slavery-prostitution ring. Bryan's only lead is a short snippet of a conversation from when Kim phoned him in a panic. With that, he's able to identify the origin of the speaker and which criminal gang he's with. Once in Paris, he quickly shows everyone connected with the case that he will stop at nothing to get his daughter back.
- Seventeen year-old Kim is the pride and joy of her father Bryan Mills. Bryan is a retired agent who left the Central Intelligence Agency to be near Kim in California. 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.
- Picture these scenarios: ~A robot from the future is sent back in time to kill the one responsible for the creation of the beings which are destroying the world in his own time.<br/><br/>~A many-faced secret agent kills more people over the course of half a century than anyone would bother counting, including some supergeniuses ranging from dangerous to annoying to pathological, journeying everywhere from the Alps to space.<br/><br/>~A man who has no clue who he is turns out to be a supersoldier from a government project, and decides to do everything he can to expose this diabolical setup. In fact, this very scenario happens multiple times to multiple men.<br/><br/>~A farm kid comes home to see his guardians murdered, and ultimately makes a giant hunk of metal explode, saving the universe.<br/><br/>The moral to this story: anyone complaining about plots holes and feasibility really needs to stop watching action movies.<br/><br/>Neeson does a stellar job portraying a man on a mission. His motivation this time borders cliché and unique, because it's not overused but not wholly original. Actually, it's somewhat reminiscent of "Man on Fire". His character doesn't develop throughout the movie, except perhaps to become more and more assertive (shooting a friend's wife in the arm and threatening her life to get what he wants), but it's not particularly necessary to develop the theme of fatherhood given its inherent complexity. The action was great, the acting was pretty good across the board (Neeson was great IMO), and the direction was effective.<br/><br/>I only have two major gripes.<br/><br/>1) Nothing happened regarding the friend after she died. In fact, there was no followup about the trading ring at all. I think there should have been some.<br/><br/>2) There were only about 2 minutes in which Neeson appeared helpless. While the action was great, aesthetic is often built on tension and release. His utter control over the situations he was in was great in the "action hero" way, but for the sake of the story he should have been a little more challenged.
- I love the fact that Taken has been released in here (Lima, Peru) before the United States. This kind of thing happens only every so often, and it gives local critics (such as me) the opportunity to review the movie with a fresh perspective, without the influence of more well-known, possibly American reviewers. It also makes it really difficult for one to have any information on the movie since it hasn't been released in the US, few people have seen it, so finding stuff about the plot or the shooting is harder. So yes, I didn't know what to expect from Taken. Well, it turns out Taken is a pretty good flick, maybe even better than one would expect from a Luc Besson action flick.<br/><br/>Even though Taken is a pretty by-the-numbers revenge flick, it manages to be compelling thanks, in part, to Pierre Morel's direction. I like it because it gives the movie an undeniable sense of urgency it is stylized without being too exaggerated, making use of not so quick cuts and shaky cam, but without making the film too shaky. (At least it's not Bourne Supremacy-shaky.) Action sequences are exciting, tense, and expertly choreographed. I'm not saying the action in Taken is 100% original and revolutionary, but what Besson, Kamen and Morel provide is exciting enough to make one forget that we've seen car chases in films about three thousand times. I like the way Bryan dispatches all his enemies he definitely looks like he knows what he's doing and the way all the action sequences seem to have consequences. They are shot in a gritty, realistic fashion, which means people actually die and the French actually care when Bryan kills and injures people. (This gives way to a subplot concerning a friend of his working for the French government.) If I were to compare this movie with other of Besson's action flicks, I'd say it is, to a certain extent, the "anti-Transporter." While the Jason Statham movies were all over-the-top and exaggerated (especially the second one), Taken is more of a reality-based, believable movie.<br/><br/>Not surprisingly, the film's greatest strength lies on Liam Neeson's performance. Even though the film's script is pretty average and sometimes unintentionally funny the fact Neeson treats the material so seriously makes one believe in his quest. I like the man's voice, the way he makes even the most clichéd piece of dialogue sound so important within the context of the movie, and the way he threatens the bad guys. He always sounds in control, calmed and sometimes even dangerous. One actually believes he's an expert, and that's he's willing to kill the bad guys to save his daughter. He also looks believable during the action sequences I can't say if stunt doubles were used or not, but from what I've seen, I can say Neeson is really effective at looking like a total badass. The only gripe I would have with his character is that he was sometimes a little too brutal, which made rooting for him a little hard the way he tortures a villain using electricity was particularly disturbing.<br/><br/>The rest of the performances are good, I guess, but here's no one that stands out as much as Neeson. Famke Janssen has a small, thankless role as Bryan's ex-wife. She gets angry and screams and cries a lot, but we really don't get to know much about their former relationship. Maggie Grace is not bad as Kim. At the beginning of the movie she irritated me a little she and her friend, actually because they acted a little too stupidly and immaturely for my taste actually, it is because of this attitude that they get kidnapped but I eventually forgot that and concentrated on her father's quest. Xander Berkeley and Leland Orser also have small but vital roles, but never really manage to take the spotlight from Neeson. The film belongs to him.<br/><br/>I liked Taken because it's exciting and tense, and because it provides with a great performance and solid storytelling. Liam Neeson is as good as he's been in practically every film he's acted in, and director Pierre Morel directs Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen's workmanlike screenplay with flair and style to make the audience forget about the clichés one inevitably finds in all revenge flicks. This is the kind of hero that's perfect for an actor like Liam Neeson: skilled and intelligent, but also flawed. (One feels a little pity for him at the beginning because of the way he's treated by his ex-wife.) I liked the fact that the action was gritty and realistic, and found the dealing of the underworld of women trafficking and the Albanese mafia in the screenplay both intriguing and disturbing. If I had to use only one word to describe Taken, that would be "intense".
- Neeson growls his way through the functional dialogue as an unstoppable killing machine in impressive, cold-eyed style.
- Retired CIA operative Bryan Mills (<a href="/name/nm0000553/">Liam Neeson</a>) reluctantly allows his 17-year-old daughter Kim (<a href="/name/nm1192254/">Maggie Grace</a>) to fly to Paris with her girlfriend Amanda (<a href="/name/nm1556320/">Katie Cassidy</a>). Not more than a few hours after landing in Paris, Kim and Amanda are kidnapped by Albanian sex-traders. Bryan immediately hops on a flight to Paris in order to track down his daughter, vowing to stop at nothing to get her back. Taken is an original script by French film-maker Luc Besson and American screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen. Two sequels followed: <a href="/title/tt1397280/">Taken 2 (2012)</a> (2012) and <a href="/title/tt2446042/">Taken 3 (2014)</a> (2015). When Marko (<a href="/name/nm0048076/">Arben Bajraktaraj</a>) is being interrogated by Bryan, he says that Kim was a virgin and that they don't deal with virgins, so they sold her to a man named Patrice Saint-Clair because virgins fetch a very high price. St. Clair's client turns out to be a sheik (<a href="/name/nm0557112/">Nabil Massad</a>) who has a penchant for deflowering young girls. Bryan reaches the quay just as the boat carrying his daughter leaves the dock. He steals a car and drives along the quay until he passes the boat, stops his car on a bridge, and jumps on deck as the boat passes under it. After fighting his way past almost a dozen guards and getting himself shot in the leg, he makes his way to a bedroom suite where he finds a fat sheik holding a knife to Kim's neck. The sheik starts to negotiate, but Bryan shoots him between the eyes. Kim starts to cry and rushes into her father's arms. In the next scene, Bryan and Kim are arriving at the Los Angeles Airport. They are greeted by a tearful Lenore (<a href="/name/nm0000463/">Famke Janssen</a>) and her rich husband Stuart (<a href="/name/nm0075359/">Xander Berkeley</a>). Lenore hugs Bryan in thanks, and Stuart offers him a ride with them, but Bryan decides to take a cab. In the final scene, Bryan takes Kim on a surprise visit to the house of pop singer Sheerah (<a href="/name/nm0883480/">Holly Valance</a>), who invites Kim inside so that she can hear Kim sing and "see what [she] got." By the time anyone would have spoken up, if ever, Bryan was likely on his private jet winging his way back to Los Angeles. Once back in the States, the U.S. government isn't about to hand over one of their CIA operatives.Taken is most often compared to <a href="/title/tt0088944/">Commando (1985)</a> (1985), in which a retired army commando will stop at nothing to find his kidnapped daughter, and to <a href="/title/tt0328107/">Man on Fire (2004)</a> (2004), in which the ex-CIA operative bodyguard of a young girl searches relentlessly for her when she is kidnapped. If you're into South Korean cinema, you could check out <a href="/title/tt1527788/">Ajeossi (2010)</a> (The Man from Nowhere) (2010), which is very similar to Taken in many aspects. There are three versions. The first is the international cut, released as an "Extended Cut" (unrated) on home media in the US, and as an "Extended Harder Cut" (with an "18" classification) on home media in the UK. The second is the UK cut, which is nearly identical to the international cut, with the sole exception of the torture scene (the clamps are attached to the chair in the UK cut; in the international cut, they're attached to spikes which are stabbed into the man's legs), which was cut to secure a "15" classification. This cut was shown in theaters in the UK. Finally, the third version is the US cut, edited by 2 or 3 minutes to receive a PG-13 rating in the US. This cut was shown in theaters in the US. There are three DVD releases in Region 1—(1) the Single-Disc Rental Exclusive, (2) the Single-Disc Extended Cut, and (3) the Two-Disc Digital Copy—and the Blu-ray release in Region A. In Region 2 / Region B, there are (1) the Extended Harder Cut DVD and (2) the Blu-ray disc. a5c7b9f00b
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