Taken

Ok, so I thought that as I watch movies this summer I would start to write reviews of what I thought of them and share them with all of you. I will try to get to as many new movies and my current budget will allow, and as many movies that I can get at a time through redbox, netfilx, etc.

I will start of by a review of the movie Taken starring Liam Neeson.

I knew little of this movie coming into it (outside of it was a dad searching for his daughter) and was pleasantly surprised at how the movie was set up and the way it made that simple plot interesting enough to keep me hooked through the entire thing.

So, I'll admit that Liam Neeson sometimes looks like Harrison Ford if you ever get distracted from what you are doing and then look back quickly to your tv set...but after I got over that fact, I enjoyed the trip that this film sent me on.

I enjoyed the action as well as a lot of the outside locations that were used for this film, and am a big fan of hearing Liam Neeson say just about anything. However, it took me just a little bit to suspend enough disbelief to remember that Bryan Mills (Neeson) was a former military officer/spy (the opening sequence does a great job setting up that backstory).

Bryan leaves quite a body count in this movie, most if not all is done by himself which is rather impressive but really all we see of Bryan in the film is him as a father which makes all the action he does seem out of the ordinary even though he has had military training.

Neeson does a great job at playing a father very concerned for his daughter which is shown from the beginning of the film. This drives his motivation for his actions throughout the rest of the film but there was a little part of me that wondered about the rest of the girls that were trapped in this human-trafficking enviornment.

Yes, we see in one scene Bryan rescues the girl who had his daughter's jacket and gave her an IV to help her back to health, but in the end scene we see just him and his daughter in the end but the other girls we see earlier are no where to be found. I understand that Bryan and his daughter (Kim - played by Maggie Grace of LOST fame) were the focus of the story but that seemed like the only plot hole as to what (if anything) was done for the rest of the women.

I liked that the film didn't have the kiddnapping as a form of revenge, or for randsom, and that it was completely random as a target of human-trafficking as this breaks out of the typical mold for a story like this.

Overall, I enjoyed this movie and give it 4 stars (out of a possible 5)

Thanks for dropping by and I hope to have more up here soon!

-Dav3