Liam Neeson gets to stretch his badass muscles in Taken, a movie in which some very, very bad people get exactly what they deserve, usually in the most brutally efficient way way possible.
Neeson stars as Bryan Mills, a caring dad with a past filled with dark deeds. When his daughter is kidnapped by sex slavers, Bryan engages in hot pursuit all over Paris, compiling a pretty heavy body count along the way. Neeson’s Bryan is intense, methodical and driven and makes Jack Bauer look like a choirboy. Yeah, I went there.
The film’s star is also it’s brightest shining light. A little more gravitas and some better performances (seriously, would it have been conceivable to cast an 18 year old actres as an 18 year old character?) would have probably garnered a better score, but Taken is a ferociously entertaining ride.
Three out of five stars
