“Taken” starring Liam Neeson – great movie thriller!
Okay, it’s the end of July, it’s hot and it’s muggy in Southern California, there’s nothing on television so….we bopped to the local video store and rented a few films we missed while they were in the theater. One I had especially wanted to see was, “Taken.”
The basic premise of the story is that Bryan Mills (Neeson) retired from being a CIA spook to get closer to his daughter, 17-year-old Kim. He’s having a hard time with it and is NOT please with Kim wants to go to Paris with a friend, ostensibly to museum hop but in reality they want to follow U-2 concerts around Europe. Bryan tells his daughter that Paris can be a scary place but can’t say no and decides to let her go and gives her an international cell phone with strict instructions to call him every night before she goes to bed.
Well, of course the two young ladies are barely off the plane when a gang of Yugoslavian white-slavers capture them. Kim has been talking to her dad on the cell phone and tries to give him info as they’re dragging her out the door. Bryan hops the first plane to Paris and proceeds to hunt down, beat the snot out of and kill a LOT of bad guys!
“Taken” is an action-packed thriller that will literally keep you on the edge of our seat. You don’t want to look at the plot TOO closely as I don’t think it would be plausable but, hey, it’s a movie, it’s make-believe and it’s great fun!
So if you’re looking for a great action film to while a way a couple of hours, I recommend you rent “Taken.” I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.
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December 13th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Cool review, what matters most to me is a movie with a PLOT and a story, not some predictable happenings that you can easily guess what the ending will be!