"Taken" isn't a great movie, but it's entertaining... which is way different than great - just so everyone knows. The entire movie is unbelievable, but I guess few action movies could be described as realistic. And every so often (also known as pretty darn frequently) there's a really awful line that one of the characters gets to say...lucky them. Liam Neeson plays a retired FBI worker, Bryan Mills. Against his better judgement he lets his daughter, Kim, go to Paris with her unbelievably stupid friend...she is so annoying and hormonal, it's ridiculous. Bryan Mill should have definitely never listened to his ex-wife. Kim and her friend get kidnapped and eventually are sold as prostitutes. Lucky for Kim, her dad is played by Liam Neeson and has unbelievable FBI skills so off he goes to Paris to rescue his daughter. Watching Liam Neeson fend people off with guns and such is pretty entertaining...and a nice little contrast to Oskar Schindler. So if one were to watch this movie it would be for one reason...to see Liam Neeson as a force not to be reckoned with. So if that doesn't appeal to you, then don't see it and move on with life. I wouldn't own the movie...but I did get my dollar's worth out of the rental.
-Joseph Sbrilli
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