Taken: Good Luck

Official Site: www.takenmovie.com
Director(s): Pierre Morel
Writer(s): Luc Besson, and Robert Mark Kamen
Producer(s): Luc Besson, Luc Besson, and India Osborne.

Starring: Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Lenore, and Olivier Rabourdin, (IMDb).
Rated PG-13, 93 minutes.

Minutes after Kim and Amanda arrive in Paris, they met a charming Frenchman who requested sharing a taxi with them because cab fares are expensive. When they arrive to their hotel, the Frenchman invited them to a party, and he departed. Hours later, while Kim is talking to her dad in the bathroom, she witnessed Amanda being captured. Taking directions from her father, she runs to a room and hides under a bed. Minutes later she was taken, but she left her cell phone under the bed. And one of the kidnappers spoke to her father Bryan Mills,who swore to kill them, and bring his daughter home.

Taken is not a big budget action drama, but it delivered well orchestrated chase scenes, a simple effective script, and good fight scenes. As a thoughtful film, the logical order deserves recognition. Certain scenes that risked developing into a hyperbole, were executed to the contrary. Some of the fight scenes were a little nebulous because some of the punches could not be seen clearly. Regarding the main character, Bryan Mills was depicted as a good but imperfect father who loved his daughter deeply. Coupled with the drive to find the kidnappers, Mills's love for his daughter was one of the main themes. According to metacritic.com, the film received generally mixed reviews. Good Stuff, I'll grade it a B-. Stay tuned, movieporium.blogspot.com.

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