I finally went out to a movie last night! Haven't been out to a real theater since the last disappointing Indiana Jones rump . Anyway, that's another blog...My girlfriend and I went to see "Taken" with Liam Neeson ( Schindler's list, Star Wars, Love Actually , the voice of Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia, yep I didn't know that either...) Of course there were other actor's in this movie but after the first 10 minutes you really don't care who they are. For the next 2 hours you are fixed on this father's attempt to rescue his kidnapped daughter from Paris and he has about a 90 hour window to do it in or she is lost forever in the sex slave trade.
At first you get the impression that 'daddy' is pretty low key, mild mannered, maybe a bit sad and beaten down by the life and career that took valuable time away from his family that eventually ended up destroying it.. He is divorced and watches from the sidelines his daughter's 'new life' with her mother and very wealthy step father.
After reluctantly allowing his very spoiled daughter a trip to Paris, within a few hours of her arrival she and her girlfriend are kidnapped. She has enough time to call her father and BAM! From then on you are 'taken' on a roller coaster of an intense ride of non stop action. This is your classic 'good guy vs bad guy'. You find yourself sucked into this father's obsession ,and anguish to find his daughter and kill, maim, or torture anyone involved that gets in his way. It's rated pg-13 so the maiming isn't over the top as it would be in an R rating.
The movie has the same theme as 'Arnold's' "Commando" and "True Lies". In other words don't mess with an ex agents family or you are going to really regret it...over and over and over....lol
The theater audience really got into this story. Every time a bad guy was 'punished', there was gasping, clapping and cheer's and I think you get the feel that it has alot to do with their anger over the horrific reason these girls are taken in the first place and you want justice! At the end of the movie there was a huge applause.
Liam Neeson was excellent and believable as a desperate father but of course it was a bit far fetched all throughout the movie, but you didn't care. Someone his age (he does look a little weathered but still very good) running around the streets of Paris acting like James Bond , Jason Bourne, or Bruce Willis would surely come home with more then a scratch and a limp..BUT hey he's the good guy and they are supposed to win! It was a lot of fun, lots of action ( don't take the young kiddies, it's for adult kiddies) and well worth getting out of the house, grabbing a bucket of popcorn and settling in for 2 hours of kick ass "I want my daughter back you lousy scum or you will die" entertainment.....20th Century Fox Presents .....when I got home, I ended my evening watching a rerun of the "Notebook".....lol
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