Taken

                Taken is the first movie in what will be a trilogy. It came out in 2008 and was directed by Pierre Morel. This movie grossed over $225 million in the box office. This movie stars Liam Neeson and is often seen as the film that changed his career and redefined him as being more of an action star.

                Taken is about a former spy for the CIA who is played by Liam Neeson. His daughter asks him if she can go to Europe with a friend. He reluctantly agrees even after he finds out that she plans to follow a band all over Europe. When she and her friend get there they meet a supposedly nice guy who asks them if they want to go to a party. Later when Liam’s daughter is talking to him on the phone some men break in and take her and her friend.  Liam then goes to Europe to rescue his daughter. He is told that he only has 96 hours to rescue him before he would never see her again.

                First Liam finds the scout that talked to his daughter but he dies before Liam can get any information from him. Liam then meets with an old friend who doesn’t help him much but does point out where a gang prostitutes women. He then goes there and follows one of the gangsters to a brothel at a construction site. He saves the girl wearing his daughter’s jacket and then asks her about where she got the jacket. He goes to the house she tells him about and finds the person he talked on the phone with. He wounds him and kills all the others. He later tortures this man to discover who they sold his daughter to. Then he goes to the home of his old friend and gets him to give Liam the address of where his daughter was sold by injuring his wife. Liam then goes to this mansion and manages to find to the room where the women are being sold. He recognizes one of them as his daughter and forces the man in front of him to buy her. He is soon knocked out by the owner of the mansion but when he wakes up he is able to free himself and kill everyone. He then chases a yacht where his daughter is being held. He kills the boats guards and the owner of the boat, freeing his daughter.

                Liam Neeson is just awesome in this movie. He plays his role very well. He understands the type of drive that a man would have when trying to save his daughter and is able to portray this on screen very well. In every part of this movie he looks like a man on a mission. He also does very well with the action scenes of the movie. He makes it look just so easy. Taken is a very good reason and I believe that Liam Neeson is the biggest reason why.

                This movie has some very memorable moments in it. There were some moments that were randomly comedic. For example it was kind of funny when the person is running and he thinks he got away and just randomly got hit by a truck. Another kind of funny part was at the end when the man who bought Liam’s daughter his holding a knife to her throat. He tries to talk to Liam and tries to make a deal when Liam just shoots him in the face. One of my favorite parts in this movie is also one of my favorite parts from any movie I’ve seen. It is near the beginning when Liam talks to one of the kidnappers on the phone.

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