Taken
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A retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris.
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Taken
A retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris.
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.
User Review
Liam Neeson as "Bryan Mills," reminded me of Denzel Washington's role in "Man On Fire." In that film, Washington played a relentless-and-brutal bodyguard who did what he had to do to get kidnapped Dakota Fanning back to her parents. Here, Neeson does the same to get his daughter "Kim" back from kidnappers/sex trade slime-balls. An ex-professional killer in retirement, "Bryan" travels to Paris and shows the bad guys who they're messing with! Neeson is very good in here. Yeah, it's a little far-fetched but it's a fun hour-and-a-half that's guaranteed to entertain and a no-nonsense, shoot-first film that always satisfies. It also looks good on Blu-Ray. Beware though: this is another "shaky" hand-held camera deal on the action scenes, which can be tough on your eyes at times. One last thing: it's not "non-stop action" as I had some people say. This movie starts slowly and builds up. It's the last half hour that's non-stop violence, not the whole film. Expect a few holes and improbable happenings in here, but expect to be entertained, too.
