Taken is like Team America. Its laugh out loud funny!

Rating: 7/10 (8 January 2009)

This film looked awful from the trailer. A middle aged Neson trying to act like a believable ex CIA operative trying to track down his daughters kidnappers. It looked boring. I was wrong! The movie starts out with Neson saying some hilarious lines to his daughter. "Don't go to Paris! I know the rest of the world. It's a dangerous place." Its Paris after all. The french are scary and dangerous or so the film would have you believe. Sure enough the daughter goes to Paris and as soon as she gets there, two hours later she is taken by a bunch of Albanian sex trade smugglers. The fact that she gets kidnapped in the first two hours of arriving in Paris is just so ridiculous you have to laugh and there Albanian? Neson than jumps on a plane and goes to Paris to save his daughter. Neson is like a psychic or something. He can listen to a tape recording of his daughter's kidnappers voices and he knows who they are within a few moments with little trouble. This follows with more scenes that are supposed to be taken seriously by the audience just keep on coming from that point on and I just couldn't stop laughing at just how stupid this film got. The enjoyment I got from watching film was just like team America. Its showed the ignorant insular view Hollywood has of foreign countries and there inhabitants. Just as Matt Stone and Trey Parker parody the ridiculous themes of Micheal Bay films, so does Taken although unintentionally and this is what makes it even more laugh out loud funny. The action scenes and lines of dialogue are also very Team America. If you like the way Matt Stone and Trey Parker parody action movies and find most action movies make you laugh rather than feel gripped to the edge of your seat I recommend this movie.