Taken

Genre: Action, Thriller
Language: English, French Albanian and Arabic
Director: Pierre Morel
Cast: Liam Neeson (Batman Begins), Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen (X-Men: The Last Stand), Xander Berkeley
Runtime: 94mins

Plot:

The seventeen year-old Kim (Maggie Grace) is the pride and joy of her father, the retired agent Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) that left the secret service to stay near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore (Famke Janssen) and her wealthy stepfather Stuart (Xander Berkeley); she convinces the reluctant Bryan to sign an authorization to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When they arrive, they share a cab with the stranger Peter and Amanda tells to him that they are alone in Paris. When Bryan succeeds in contacting his daughter, she tells that criminals have just break in the spot and they are kidnapped by an Albanese gang of human trafficking. Bryan promises in the phone to kill the kidnapper of his daughter and immediately travels to Paris to find Kim and chase the criminals.

Watched the movie on 24 Mar late night @ KL Berjaya Time Square with Vanessa.

A father who wanted to make up his relationship with his daughter who lived with her mother since the parents were separated. Upon knowing that his precious daughter was kidnapped by baddies, he used his occupational knowledge to rescue her. The most memorable part that he said to the kidnapper was: "I don't know who you are, I don't know what you want, but if you don't let my daughter go, I will find you, I will kill you."

Another impression was that the action part reminds me of someone similiar. Just like Jackie Chan's Police story, whereby he also know where the baddies will comeby, how to detect danger, cause damage to his opponent but need not kill them...

Overall, a good action movie to watch since there isn't much good ones these few weeks. Again, this movie focused a lot on Paris, France that drew my attention. Of course, the wits of getting to the baddies and action-pack movie does keep me glued to the chair. Thumbs up for Liam Neeson's good performance.

ah-deng says: 3½ / 5 Lesson learned - do not share cab with anyone.