Taken

Rating: PG-13

Movie Release Date: Febrary 27, 2008 (France) / January 30, 2009 (USA)

DVD Release Date: May 12, 2009

Plot 411: When his daughter is kidnapped in France, a former goverment spy must come out of retirement to find her.

Review: As a former spy, Bryan can be a bit overprotective of his teenaged daughter. But when she and a friend are kidnapped and sold into the sex trade, his worries prove to be right. Liam Neeson does a good job at portraying this man with two lives. On one hand, he is a former government agent trained for all types of battle - be it physical, technological or psychological. On the other, he's merely a man trying to reconnect with a daughter that has grown up without him in her life. Trying to piece these two lives together is interesting to watch. He seems to struggle with the boredom of retirement, yet retirement is the only way he can get to know his daughter again. The intensity of his former life is reawarkened when his daughter is taken, and his skills are revealed. As a side note, Bryan's ex-wife is played by Famke Janssen. I was surprised at how old she's looking these days. She's still beautiful but somehow she seems to have aged a lot since I last saw her in X-Men: The Last Stand.

Watch It: For great action sequences. The action in this movie are old school hand-to-hand combat and gunfights.

Skip It: If you're expecting a ton of CGI effects.

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