Taken

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This film follows the story of a father who has sacrificed his career as a government agent to reconnect with his daughter. She agrees to a few terms with her father, so that she can go on a trip to Paris, France, with her best friend. It begins as a fun trip but turns into disaster as the two are taken. From a single phone call he sets out on a mission to rescue his daughter from her kidnappers.

Liam Neeson does a great job portraying a desperate father/assassin, Bryan Mills. He also does a great job keeping the fighting simple, and yet really sophisticated. Maggie Grace, who portrays the daughter Kim, does a unique 17 year old girl. She is shown as highly innocent, and looks very young. She reminded me of an 11 year old girl pretending to be a teenager. She does a good job portraying the character, but I think-story wise-they tried too hard to make her innocent. Famke Jassen, portrays the mother, Lenore. She is kind of bitchy, but I think she could've received the news about her daughter a little better. The rest of the story was carried by action which isn't a bad thing. The deeper he goes the more you feel for his plight. The action was well choreographed. Luckily, this film has a happy ending.  It was surprising that after Bryan went to hell to rescue Kim; she still loves her mother more than her father. She even preferred the pop star Sheerah more than him at least that's how it appeared in the ending sequence.

I give this film a 9 out of 10 stars. Its got a lot of great action sequences, but sometimes the story tried too hard to make you sympathetic to the protagonists, and hate the antagonists. This film also is not a film for children.


Answer to last blog: Nicolas Cage, and director Dominic Sena, worked together in the film Gone In Sixty Seconds.

Que: What other popular film has director Pierre Morel directed?

Knight and Day
From Paris With Love
District 9
The A-Team