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Taken

See, I don’t normally watch this sort of action movies. Anyway, Liam Neeson is awesome and besides, the trailer looked good.

So anyway, it’s about an ex-CIA agent Bryan (Neeson) who has a daughter who insists to go to Paris despite his reservations. While there she is kidnapped by sex-traffickers (for once, the dad is absolutely right). So Bryan spends the rest of the movie tracking her down - and killing everyone in the way. The kidnapping scene, as shown in the trailer, was done well. And from there, it’s all non-stop action.

It was kind of unrealistic, in that Bryan seemed to take on superhuman powers, beating up everyone. Nobody or nothing mattered, he just had to find his daughter and save her. Along the way he met quite a few corrupt cops. I did wonder how he managed to escape the consequences of creating such a huge mess - the body count was pretty high. Also, for a PG-13 it was kind of violent - but I may have been watching the unedited version.

I guess I watched this movie because it kind of reminded me of Alias - a father who would do anything to save his daughter (who knows how many countless times Jack had to save Sydney’s butt, “sacrificing” people along the way). Overall, “Taken” is a pretty good action movie, exciting to the end, even if it is kind of cliched and the ending is entirely guess-able. 7.5/10

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