Not Worth Your Time: Taken Doesn't Take as it Expected it Would

Taken just wants to give us a good time, too bad it didn’t work.

The film classified as an action genre takes a lot of time to finally get to the “so-called” action, as the film takes the first 30 minutes to set up its plot. The film then becomes a single-role of just Liam Neeson (playing Bryan Mills) where he conveniently kicks the ass of scummy Europeans all over Paris, while everyone else in the film is incidental as the film proves in the end.

The general plot of Taken is about Bryan Mills who is trying to reconnect with his 17year-old daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) as he spent most of her life working all over the world for the CIA. Much to the dismay of his ex-wife Lenore (Famke Janssen), Bryan tries every effort to be a father again. Although, he finds the only way to reconnect with Kim and to make peace with his ex-wife is to go against his better judgment and allow Kim to travel to Europe with her older girlfriend only under his specific conditions.

Though he later finds out that he should have stood his ground, because shortly after landing in Paris Kim and her friend are kidnapped by Albanians and sold as sex slaves to the insanely rich and powerful.



Bryan arrives in Paris and begins to hunt for the abductors as promised while always winning brawls no matter how many opponents were involved.

What Taken is, is a good middle of the road “action” movie, that just meets the par. Taken has no ambition beyond holding your attention for 90 minutes and making a dollar, although it has already taken and “wasted” peoples time and money.

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