Taken [2008] (DVD)

Bryan Mills is annoyed with his seventeen year old daughter Kim decides she is going to Paris with just another friend to accompany her. As a former CIA agent, he knows that the world is far from being the innocent place Kim and her mother, Bryan's ex-wife, think it is. However, he is persuaded by his ex-wife to give Kim permission to go, provided that she calls him every evening to let him know she is safe. When Kim doesn't call, Bryan calls her, only to discover that Kim and her friend are in the process of being captured by a group of men. Bryan hears much of the kidnap on the phone, then uses his contacts to find out who the perpetrators might be, before flying out ...  Read the complete review

Sometimes, films come out that I just have to see and Taken was one such film. Somehow I managed to miss this when it was out in the cinema, but after reading rave reviews of it in the press and online, I decided I was definitely going to hire it from the library. When a copy became available, I took it out and told my other half excitedly about watching it that evening. He wasn't keen, but I was determined and we sat down to watch it that night. Needless to say it was the best film either of us have seen this year, and we both thought it was an amazing film! Bryan Mills worked as a spy but as he is desperate for a relationship with his daughter Kim, he ...  Read the complete review

Being at university, I don't really go to the cinema much just because usually I am busy and £5 seems like a lot to go to the cinema when it can be spent on other things. I usually wait for films to come out on DVD which is why it has been so long until I have gotten to see the film 'Taken'. I had wanted to see this ever since hearing about it but had so much uni work to do but now that I have finished I am trying to catch up on everything that I've missed and this film was near the top of my list of things I wanted to see. An ex soldier, government CIA worker Bryan (Liam Neeson) has quit his job and moved to be nearer to his daughter Kim (Maggie Grace), who ...  Read the complete review

Liam Neeson is my boyfriends hero - it probably has something to do with them both being Irish - I hate to say it they do tend to stick together! - but he does love him as an actor. I have to say I have only ever seen him act in Love Actually so I didn't really have any thoughts on him as an actor. So when he brought home "Taken" from Blockbusters, I did roll my eyes, I knew nothing of the film and wasn't really that bothered about it! I like action films generally but I don't actively go out to rent them. However, I soon changed my mind, within thirty minutes of watching this, we were both well and truly ...  Read the complete review

Bryan Mills (Neeson) is a retired CIA paramilitary officer who, because of a patriotic devotion to his work, has become estranged from his wife, Lenore, and daughter, Kim. In Bryan's stead, they have found solace in the palacial grounds of Stuart, Lenore's new husband. In an attempt to bridge the emotional gap with his daughter, Bryan has given up his time-consuming job and moved close by, and such efforts appear to be rewarded when Kim asks that they have lunch together. However, Kim's reasoning is slightly less altruistic than Bryan had hoped, as he is pressganged into permitting Kim's pre-planned trip to Paris. Fearing for her daughter travelling to ...  Read the complete review