Taken
Starring: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Jansen & other people including one dude that looked like the guy from Grand Thief Auto 4.
Length: Hour & half or so.
Rating: PG-13 at least. Lots of violence. Some sex (nothing to graphic). No swearing ( I Think).
Summary/Review: Bryan Mills (Neeson) is a retired Government "Preventer", he prevents bad things from happening (read as he kills people). His daughter (Grace) goes to Paris with her friend. Lesson #1: don't talk to strangers, especially French strangers who might be working for Albanian sex traffickers. So, his daughter & her friend are kidnapped. But while this is happening the daughter is talking to her dad. She gets taken & the kidnapper now has the phone so the dad & the dude have a short chat:
Mills: I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.
Kidnapper: [after a long pause] Good luck.
So, Neeson uses his contacts to save his daughter from becoming a hooker & there is a time limit: he has like 3 days to find or he'll never find her. He goes to france & kills a bunch of people. The movie had a somewhat Bourne like quiality but with an old guy, older guy (Neeson is 52). Lots of killing with guns. Lots of fighting, jumping, running, car chases, etc. Also lots of jittery/shaky camera work. I think jittery/shaky means action! Lot of it means high action! To spoil the end: he gets her back. This movie was a lesson in extreme parenting & a lesson to not to talk to strangers. I give the movie: a 3 out of 5. It's a pretty ok movie with some cool action sequences.
Until next: Stay Jazzy!
- Brian
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