Taken is about a former spy (Neeson) whose daughter gets kidnapped by slave traders while traveling in France. Neeson takes matters into his own hands by relying on his skills to locate his daughter. While trying to find his daughter he hits quite a few road blocks including the slave traders themselves to the French police, he gets rid of them with no problem. My aunt compared Taken to "Dirty Harry on speed", at first I doubted that, after seeing it I can not agree more.
The action scenes in the movie were great, they were very unique most of the time and were not boring like most films as of lately (mainly Terminater Salvation and Transformers 2). Liam Neeson himself amazed me, I am now convinced he can do anything. Schindler, Aslan, Qui Gon Jin and now ultimate bad ass. His dialog and the way he delivered it was so cool, never scared and always serious, reminded me of a throw back action hero. The other actors did a good job too, which also surprised me...it was a all around well acted action film.
Taken is exciting, smart, well acted action film. That has always been rare for this genre, which makes Taken a must see.
**** out of 5
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