Taken

Taken

Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on August 2009 The daughter of an ex-CIA operative (Liam Neeson in full Jack Bauer mode) is kidnapped in Paris by Albanian sex-slavers, so dad jets off to the rescue, making use of a plethora of lethal skills and spy-tech connections to make the soon-to-be-dead kidnappers understand that they done messed […]

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Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on August 2009

©2008 Europacorp - M6 Films - Grive Productions

©2008 Europacorp - M6 Films - Grive Productions

The daughter of an ex-CIA operative (Liam Neeson in full Jack Bauer mode) is kidnapped in Paris by Albanian sex-slavers, so dad jets off to the rescue, making use of a plethora of lethal skills and spy-tech connections to make the soon-to-be-dead kidnappers understand that they done messed with the wrong daughter. Like most Luc Besson-penned films recently, this is preposterous, unsubtle and without a shred of credibility (where are the French cops?), but it’s propulsive, and the escapist lunacy never pauses long enough for you to complain. Neeson’s better than this; this is Seagal-level stuff.
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