646f9e108c Divorced and almost retired, former CIA agent Bryan Mills, struggles to spend more time with his only daughter, the 17-year-old lively Kim, yearning to bridge the gap between them. However, when Mills reluctantly gives his permission to let Kim and her friend Amanda travel to Paris, his fears will be justifiedthe two naive girls will get kidnapped on the same afternoon of their arrival, captured by a ruthless white-slavery ring. Now, the solitary seasoned veteran has less than 96 hours to rescue his daughter, and the clock is ticking. Can Mills make it against the well-prepared kidnappers?
After reluctantly agreeing to let his 17-year-old daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace), go to France with her best friend, Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) is horrified to hear that she is kidnapped by an Albanian gang whose specialty is prostitution rings. With only 96 hours to go before he'll never find her again, Bryan rushes to France to save her. As a former CIA agent, he has all the skills necessary to rescue her - if he can only find her.
This film would have done much better just after 9/11 up until about 2003 when there was no shortage of scared Americans running around. That and "freedom fries".<br/><br/>Now, it's reduced to pretty much what it is. A tired succession of clichés you expect from a network TV movie of the week. In addition, it's simply stupid. They could have called it "Road Rage Father's Wet Dream". At least then it could have qualifiedintelligent satire.<br/><br/>If you were to reverse this and a European country were to make a film about a European spy's daughter coming to America to be kidnapped, drugged, and solda whore, there would probably be national outrage and boycotts.<br/><br/>As for the acting, Liam carries the film, but even he can't make up for silly situations and otherwise poor acting.
One of the best action flicks I've seen. Highly recommend this movie if you like intense action films. I thought Neeson's character's overbearing protectiveness was a little excessive but that was the only thing I could find to complain about, and that isn't much. Lots of great chase scenes brawls and shootouts. Not sure just how accurate the portrayal of the sex slaving industry is but it seemed fairly believable to me. The bad guys seemed genuinely evil and got what they deserved. I never figured Neeson for an action star before but he came through with flying colors in my opinion. I'm hoping they make some kind of sequel, I'd watch it for sure.
There is no mythology, no irony, no real soul–just a Charles Bronson simplicity about the whole affair.
Retired CIA operative Bryan Mills (<a href="/name/nm0000553/">Liam Neeson</a>) reluctantly allows his 17-year-old daughter Kim (<a href="/name/nm1192254/">Maggie Grace</a>) to fly to Paris with her girlfriend Amanda (<a href="/name/nm1556320/">Katie Cassidy</a>). Not more than a few hours after landing in Paris, Kim and Amanda are kidnapped by Albanian sex-traders. Bryan immediately hops on a flight to Paris in order to track down his daughter, vowing to stop at nothing to get her back. Taken is an original script by French film-maker Luc Besson and American screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen. Two sequels followed: <a href="/title/tt1397280/">Taken 2 (2012)</a> (2012) and <a href="/title/tt2446042/">Taken 3 (2014)</a> (2015). When Marko (<a href="/name/nm0048076/">Arben Bajraktaraj</a>) is being interrogated by Bryan, he says that Kim was a virgin and that they don't deal with virgins, so they sold her to a man named Patrice Saint-Clair because virgins fetch a very high price. St. Clair's client turns out to be a sheik (<a href="/name/nm0557112/">Nabil Massad</a>) who has a penchant for deflowering young girls. Bryan reaches the quay justthe boat carrying his daughter leaves the dock. He steals a car and drives along the quay until he passes the boat, stops his car on a bridge, and jumps on deckthe boat passes under it. After fighting his way past almost a dozen guards and getting himself shot in the leg, he makes his way to a bedroom suite where he finds a fat sheik holding a knife to Kim's neck. The sheik starts to negotiate, but Bryan shoots him between the eyes. Kim starts to cry and rushes into her father's arms. In the next scene, Bryan and Kim are arriving at the Los Angeles Airport. They are greeted by a tearful Lenore (<a href="/name/nm0000463/">Famke Janssen</a>) and her rich husband Stuart (<a href="/name/nm0075359/">Xander Berkeley</a>). Lenore hugs Bryan in thanks, and Stuart offers him a ride with them, but Bryan decides to take a cab. In the final scene, Bryan takes Kim on a surprise visit to the house of pop singer Sheerah (<a href="/name/nm0883480/">Holly Valance</a>), who invites Kim inside so that she can hear Kim sing and "see what [she] got." By the time anyone would have spoken up, if ever, Bryan was likely on his private jet winging his way back to Los Angeles. Once back in the States, the U.S. government isn't about to hand over one of their CIA operatives.Taken is most often compared to <a href="/title/tt0088944/">Commando (1985)</a> (1985), in which a retired army commando will stop at nothing to find his kidnapped daughter, and to <a href="/title/tt0328107/">Man on Fire (2004)</a> (2004), in which the ex-CIA operative bodyguard of a young girl searches relentlessly for her when she is kidnapped. If you're into South Korean cinema, you could check out <a href="/title/tt1527788/">Ajeossi (2010)</a> (The Man from Nowhere) (2010), which is very similar to Taken in many aspects. There are three versions. The first is the international cut, releasedan "Extended Cut" (unrated) on home media in the US, andan "Extended Harder Cut" (with an "18" classification) on home media in the UK. The second is the UK cut, which is nearly identical to the international cut, with the sole exception of the torture scene (the clamps are attached to the chair in the UK cut; in the international cut, they're attached to spikes which are stabbed into the man's legs), which was cut to secure a "15" classification. This cut was shown in theaters in the UK. Finally, the third version is the US cut, edited by 2 or 3 minutes to receive a PG-13 rating in the US. This cut was shown in theaters in the US. There are three DVD releases in Region 1—(1) the Single-Disc Rental Exclusive, (2) the Single-Disc Extended Cut, and (3) the Two-Disc Digital Copy—and the Blu-ray release in Region A. In Region 2 / Region B, there are (1) the Extended Harder Cut DVD and (2) the Blu-ray disc.
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