"Taken"

Challenger78 said:
I loved Niam Leeson in the role. I thought the Daughter got her just desserts really, seemed a bit spoilt to begin with. But I guess she learnt her lesson.
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yeah because nothing straightens a teenage bimbo out like being put on the sex slave market.
 
ElectricFetus said:
I'm aware of that, but also the average CIA killer never works alone, even a sniper of special forces training in a jungle out to kill "che" works in buddies of 2.
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And you know that much about the CIA to make those assumptions? :rolleyes:
 
Okay action movie, nothing special.

There were too many cliches, crazy that the majority of the bad guys were immigrants, Non-White French guys, drug-dealing, women trafficking Albanians, sleazy slave-purchasing Arabs, the good guys and victims were all White (mainly American). And that line about the Albanian mateys taking advantage of the West's tolerance and mistaking it for weakness, bleh.

That part where Liam shoots that guy’s wife was so random and pointless, it was that other American girl that deserved to be shot!
 
This movie rocked! Liam Nesson was at the top of his game. This movie is still doing well in the box office also.
 
Ghost_007 said:
That part where Liam shoots that guy’s wife was so random and pointless, it was that other American girl that deserved to be shot!
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Actually that was pretty effective move on his part and the other American girl did die...
 
I hated it. I was ready to spend $10 to see it on a big screen until I read post # 15. The movie was a waste of bandwidth. It reminded me of why I enjoyed watching the Last Action Hero. I wish I had one of those high-tech devices that creates a bullet force field around the bodies of action heroes. The only problem is that sometimes they malfunction, and you may get minor flesh wound in the shoulder, ribs, or legs.

I would also like to own one of those universal translators that you see in movies and television shows like Startrek. I think it was funny that Liam Neesson barely spoke a word of French while he was in France. The only thing I remember hearing him say was merci. Everyone was greeting him in English, and he was able to convince a group of gangsters that he was cop / French secret agent without speaking a word of French. He had to be wearing a universal translator.
 
I liked it was ok, didn't think it was great. I really like Liam N. as an actor and that more then anything got me interested in this movie. I gotta agree with the poster who said the characters lacked and I found myself not really giving a crap what happened to them.
The character that actually got to me more then anyone was the mother. Being a mother myself I HATED her attitude of all kids roam across another country as a learning experience. As for the teenage girls, I didn't find myself even having much sympathy for them as I do for other kids in movies I have watched.

Anybody ever see An Eye for an Eye (Sally Field, Kiefer Sutherland) Now that movie had me in tears in the first 5 minutes. To me a great movie really plays on my emotions and this one really didn't.
 
I also didn't like this film. I really didn't care if the daughter was saved or not, she just got on my nerves. But what really did it for me is the soppy ending, action films should not try and be soppy.
 
Let me ask those who didn't like the movie and paid for it:

Had you watched it for free, would that change your opinion at least a bit? (let's say, hey, for free it was OK)

Since I watch movies for free, my standard is lowered and I am less critical. After all, it is my fault if I watch the whole movie and don't stop at the first 20 minutes...

Although that translation catch is a good observation, in an action movie I don't necessery look for consistency or logic...
 
I watched it for free although I would have been prepared to pay to not see it.
 
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