"I believe you. But that won't save you."

Rating: 10/10 (22 January 2010)

In an age of wacky bullsh*t, there's something reassuringly bad ass about the simple pleasures of a father's wrath, and a few deep chops to the throat.
So without any more introduction let us discuss Taken. Despite, all of the brute-force action that this particular film offers, it also offers us a rather surprisingly solid emotional core detailing a rather simple story line, a father ( Liam Neeson) , who also happens to be a former CIA Agent who will stop at nothing and nobody to get back his daughter ( Maggie Grace) who has been kidnapped by a group of Albanian Sex-Slavers. Oh, yeah and did I mention he pretty much single-handily invades the country of France?? Well, there you go.
The other pleasure of Taken is seeing Neeson bringing the noise and the bodies as the 'action hero', though he's getting up there, Neeson is still a true physical presence. The highlights of the film for me are simply seeing the dude use the skills that he has immersed over the decades on the Euro-Trash pieces of sh*t.
Everyone is going to bring up the action sequences, or the scene where he shoots his "friends" wife and then calls it a "flesh-wound", and yet the scene that I loved the most is the one where, Neeson's character goes to the temp agency and ends up hiring a translator.....