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Taken (2008)

Directed by Pierre Morel

Thriller

Most recently watched by danfinn, schofizzy, Allison, Javitron, themarc, jenerator, sleestakk

Overview

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 against the clock, her ex-spy father must pull out all the stops to save her. But with his best years possibly behind him, the job may be more than he can handle.

Rated PG-13 | Length 94 minutes

Actors

Liam Neeson | Maggie Grace | Leland Orser | Famke Janssen | Jon Gries | David Warshofsky | Holly Valance | Katie Cassidy | Xander Berkeley | Olivier Rabourdin | Gérard Watkins | Marc Amyot | Arben Bajraktaraj | Radivoje Bukvić | Mathieu Busson | Michel Flash | Nicolas Giraud | Rubens Hyka | Camille Japy | Valentin Kalaj | Fani Kolarova | Goran Kostić | Christophe Kourotchkine | Edwin Krüger | Jalil Naciri | Anca Radici | Nathan Rippy | Héléna Soubeyrand | Tommy Spahija | Anatole Taubman | Bertrand Treuil | Opender Singh | Christy Reese | George Hertzberg | Nabil Massad | Ivette González

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

A rewatch; saw this in the theater back during my first set of knee surgeries, so it seemed appropriate to watch while recovering from my third knee surgery.

Doesn’t hold up as well on second viewing, but still a brutally violent movie.

One thing that does hold up is my absolute hatred for “Kim”, Neeson’s character’s daughter and the one he’s on a mission to save. I spent the entire movie praying and hoping for her death. She’s such a whiny “oh look I got a PONY for my birthday! I’m gonna pee!” bitch that I would actually whisper under my breath “please God, let her die by the end of this movie.”

Oh well, can’t have everything.

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