By Clarence Yu
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I donât know who you are. I donât know what you want. If you are l ooking for ransom, I can tell you I donât have money, but what I do have is a p articular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, t hat will be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you donât, I will look for you. I will find you. And I will kill you. WITH these few lines of dialogue, the stage is set for Taken. You pretty much k now where you are going to end up as you step into the theater. But this is a k ind of movie where you want to go along for the ride nonetheless. Directed by Pierre Morel, Taken stars Liam Neeson as Bryan Mills, presumably an ex-government agent who retired in California to live close to his daughter. H e wanted to make up for all the lost time while he was away on active duty. Mills is a loving father who is estranged from his wife (Famke Janssen) but wan ts to be there for his daughter. When his daughter decides to go on a trip to Paris, that is the time when things change. The retired agent springs back into action to rescue his o wn kin. That is basically the premise and the story of the entire movie and hun dreds of other action movies before this. The notion of Neeson playing action hero--with all these gun-toting, car-chasin g, thrashing actions and assassinations (think James Bond)-- is quite dubious. It leaves a big question mark in my mind. Make no mistake. There is no question about Neeson's acting capabilities. But one has to see films like Michael Coll ins, Rob Roy and Love Actually to know that this is an actor who is certainly o ne of the best at his craft--the kind of character actor who seems to be Shakes pearean-trained. So to find out that Mr. Neeson stars in a relatively generic action movie will catch some people by surprise. Thankfully, this wall-to-wall action film is sal vaged by Neeson's dignified presence. And those first lines of dialogue could n ot have been uttered with more seriousness or authority than Neeson himself. The action is also not that bad. It never stops as you are kept to the edge of your seat, thanks to the script and production by Luc Besson of the Transporter series fame. But it would be hard to imagine watching this film in the hands of a less capab le actor than Liam Neeson. And to think that audiences would have had to wait f or 2011 for his rumored portrayal of Abraham Lincoln in collaboration with Stev en Spielberg. Taken is definitely worth watching for both the action and the lead actor. Liam Neeson has proven that he, too, can take up the mantle of an action hero and g ive others a run for their money. If you are tired of seeing plot-twisted actio n movies that leave you scratching your head while you long for a straight-ahea d action film, see this soon. See the movie's trailer he re.
correction: it was the daughter and not the wife who went on a trip to paris. w
hat a funny part of your review.
@Inglewood.
Apologies. It was purely an unintended error, and I apologize for compromising
the integrity of the story for readers.
I'm sure the editors of the paper will be able to explain the nature of the err
or better than I.
Best regards
Clarence Yu
Inglewood118, please read the review again
"When his daughter decides to go on a trip to Paris, that is the time when thin
gs change. The retired agent springs back into action to rescue his own kin."
Saw the movie and I too was taken by surprise.
good movie. my friends recommended it, so i gave it a watch...i definitely don'
t regret it.
it's closer to the more recent Bourne movies than Bond (less 'flash' in Bourne
and the combat is more 'grounded'/'realistic')... which, imho, is a good thing.
all those exaggerated explosions after shooting the engine and whatnot do get
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Good movie and Liam Neeson did an outstanding work. However, there were some unnecessary characters and the movie is a bit slow somewhere but I'd say it is a good movie compared to other crappy ones. Kids should also learn from this movie about what stubbornness and stupidity can do, kids cannot go off on a trip just like that but most kids think they're grown up, they have to understand that they are still not prepared to face brutality. I just hope they learn something good.
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The action is also not that bad. It never stops as you are kept to the edge of your seat, thanks to the script and production by Luc Besson of the Transporter series fame. But it would be hard to imagine watching this film in the hands of a less capab le actor than Liam Neeson. And to think that audiences would have had to wait f or 2011 for his rumored portrayal of Abraham Lincoln in collaboration with Stev en Spielberg.
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