Taken for a Long Painful Ride

Rating: Null/10 (15 February 2009)

I actually signed up to IMDb after seeing this brutal film. I turned to my companion at the end of this movie and said "Anyone associated with this movie should be removed from Hollywood immediately".
Rather than following the advice of the movie review in The New Yorker I decided to favor the opinions of IMDb and boy was I wrong. The story is so contrived, the acting so weak and the violence senseless that I would have figured that at least the majority of reviews would have reflected these sentiments.
Further to the violence, Liam Neeson's character was shockingly evil killing without remorse. It was so violent that people actually let out sounds of shock during one killing. What a waste of time and money.