---Aslan, Qui-Gon Jinn, and Henri Ducard. Three characters that have little in common; seeing as how one is a lion, one is a Jedi, and the other is a disguised super villain. Could Liam Neeson, the actor behind each one of those characters, also play a concerned father? Actually, concerned father doesn’t accurately describe the role. Concerned father that’s also a retired bodyguard? Absolutely. “Taken” is an action packed film with some sentiment thrown in that puts Liam Neeson in his element.
---Neeson plays a character by the name of Brian Mills, a retired government bodyguard, or as he says, ‘a preventer’. Not only that but he is a divorced father who just moved closer to his daughter Kim, who lives with her mother Eleanor and step father. Kim, 17, asks her father to sign a paper allowing her to go to Paris, allegedly to spend the summer with her friend’s cousin. Brian is very hesitant but ultimately signs the paper with certain stipulations (well, he is a body guard isn’t he?).
---Kim and her friend fly to Paris and immediately meet a handsome young man named Peter whom they share a cab with. After the two arrive at their apartment and relax for a few hours, Kim realizes her father called her and she returns his call. Suddenly, men rush the apartment and kidnap both of them. Brian confers with a colleague of his and he is told that in about 96 hours Kim will be unable to be found. With a little more than a voice and a location, Brian sets out to rescue his daughter from these people with their motive unbeknownst to him.
---Nothing really stands out in this movie. The music is fitting for an action movie and doesn’t really have a lasting appeal outside of viewing the film. The writing has its times of humor and creativity but isn’t full of one liners that keep the script fresh in a person’s mind.
---This movie is actually quite predictable. In most action movies, there is an objective that the main character needs to fulfill and the climax of the movie is that fulfillment. Without giving the plot away, this film more or less follows that algorithm. Not only that but the movie is shorter compared to a lot of films of this genre, only running 93 minutes.
---Despite these things that may make the viewer somewhat ambivalent toward the film, the action scenes are quite well done. They are just short enough to not drag on but they are long enough to get a message across. The camera work that accompanies the scenes is really shaky to add to the suspense which helps make the movie more appealing.
---After seeing the film and Liam Neeson running away with this character, ambivalence seems like bliss. There is no real downside to this film. Combining the factors of action content, story, and length, there is just the right consistency to make this movie quite good. There really could have been more story and development, but honestly too much would have ruined the movie’s likeability. I give this movie a 4.25 out of 5 and two thumbs up to Liam Neeson for pulling this role off so well.
---Neeson plays a character by the name of Brian Mills, a retired government bodyguard, or as he says, ‘a preventer’. Not only that but he is a divorced father who just moved closer to his daughter Kim, who lives with her mother Eleanor and step father. Kim, 17, asks her father to sign a paper allowing her to go to Paris, allegedly to spend the summer with her friend’s cousin. Brian is very hesitant but ultimately signs the paper with certain stipulations (well, he is a body guard isn’t he?).
---Kim and her friend fly to Paris and immediately meet a handsome young man named Peter whom they share a cab with. After the two arrive at their apartment and relax for a few hours, Kim realizes her father called her and she returns his call. Suddenly, men rush the apartment and kidnap both of them. Brian confers with a colleague of his and he is told that in about 96 hours Kim will be unable to be found. With a little more than a voice and a location, Brian sets out to rescue his daughter from these people with their motive unbeknownst to him.
---Nothing really stands out in this movie. The music is fitting for an action movie and doesn’t really have a lasting appeal outside of viewing the film. The writing has its times of humor and creativity but isn’t full of one liners that keep the script fresh in a person’s mind.
---This movie is actually quite predictable. In most action movies, there is an objective that the main character needs to fulfill and the climax of the movie is that fulfillment. Without giving the plot away, this film more or less follows that algorithm. Not only that but the movie is shorter compared to a lot of films of this genre, only running 93 minutes.
---Despite these things that may make the viewer somewhat ambivalent toward the film, the action scenes are quite well done. They are just short enough to not drag on but they are long enough to get a message across. The camera work that accompanies the scenes is really shaky to add to the suspense which helps make the movie more appealing.
---After seeing the film and Liam Neeson running away with this character, ambivalence seems like bliss. There is no real downside to this film. Combining the factors of action content, story, and length, there is just the right consistency to make this movie quite good. There really could have been more story and development, but honestly too much would have ruined the movie’s likeability. I give this movie a 4.25 out of 5 and two thumbs up to Liam Neeson for pulling this role off so well.
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