Movie Review : Taken

How is it going everyone? Now, i want to make my first movie review. I want to review : TAKEN (2008). Because i just watched it and i really love this movie. So, Let’s Go! (SPOILER ALERT)

TAKEN (2008)

Movie Details

Movie Poster

Produced by Luc Besson

Directed by Pierre Morel

Starring:

   Liam Neeson

   Famke Janssen

   Maggie Grace

Genre                  : Action, Thriller

Language            : English

Running Time    : 92 Min

Plot Sumarry      :

While vacationing with a friend in Paris, an American girl is kidnapped by a gang of human traffickers intent on selling her into forced prostitution. Working againts the clock, her ex-spy father must pull out all the stops to save her. But with his best years possibily behind him, the job may be more than he can handle.

Movie Review  :

17 yo Kim (Maggie Grace) is the pride and joy of her father, Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson). Bryan is a retired CIA agent who left his job to be near with his daughter in california. Kim lives with her mother, Lenore (Famke Jensen) and her rich stepfather Stuart.

Kim manages to convince her overprotective father, Bryan, to allow her to travel to pariswith her friend.

Shortly after  landing in the Paris, Kim and her friend kidnapped by Albanians to be sold as prostitutes. Kim has short time to call her father and give him information before she taken. Her father gets to speak briefly to one of the kidnappers and he promises the kidnapper this awesome
quote :

Bryan talking to the kidnapper

“I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you."

But then, the kidnapper challenged and wishes him “Good Luck”. So Bryan Mills travels to hunt those kidnappers and rescue his daughter.

IMO, this is an awesome thriller action movies. I love the action that Bryan showed us. He trying all his best just to save his daughter. He use detective skill, fighting skill, shooting skill that he learnt when he worked as CIA.

Liam Neeson brings the character a hard-edged, cold-blooded, merciless focused anger. He looks so badass in this movies, he just focused on saving his daughter and kill everyone that trying to stop him, even his friend from police department, Bryan shoot his friend’s wife just to get some information from his friend.

Bryan Mills show them (the kidnappers) that they messing with the wrong person.

Taken is not just another action movie that contain many shootings, a lot of fight and car races. But the real drama lies in the reality of human trafficking and the love of a father.

This movie is one of my favorite movies. You should give it a shot, it’s gonna be worth to watch. Although the action is far from James Bond or Bourne, but the drama,tension and the plot is enough to make this movie awesome.

I’ll give it a rate 8.6/10

Okay, that’s all my first movie review, hope you like this post. And don’t forget to watch this movie. See you next time. Cheers!!!

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