there is little to be said about the plot. Liam Neeson's 17 year old daughter, in Paris on vacation, is kidnapped by Albanian sex-slave traders. Unfortunately for them, Neeson is a retired US government covert operative of some kind, with skills and resources which enable him to pursue the kidnappers, extract information, and exact retribution.
There are some plot threads left untied (literally in the case of a thread which he finds at the kidnap scene but then never pursues, as far as I could see), and there is some pretty wild variance in how easily he takes out the kidnappers.
You need to get past some poor direlogue and cheesy moments/acting in the first half of this film, as the moment the daughter is "Taken" is the moment this film will start to knock your socks off.Liam Neeson makes for a very good 70's style hero, although the accent waivers. Cant believe he passed himself off as a french policeman speaking in English in a Irish/American accent when he goes undercover in a scene, but that's the scripts fault not his.
Other actors range from competent to annoying (Daughter...) but nevertheless, this film has fight scenes that are sharp, realistic, nasty and well edited.
3/5
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