Let's be honest here!

Rating: 6/10 (9 May 2009)

I won't take anything away from the action-packed goodness of "Taken." No pun intended. This movie is right up there with "Under Siege" and "No Way Out" in terms of old-fashioned butt-kicking. But the plot? Please! Girl wants to go to Europe. Father (ex-mercenary) is worried off his rocker. Girl goes anyway. FIRST person she speaks to turns out to be a human trafficker and the girl gets sold into bondage. Father, of course, tracks down said trafficker and all his employers, right up to the top, and gets daughter back. Any of us who have been to 'the continent' will see this film as another ridiculous Hollywood example of how life in Europe really is. Does human trafficking go on? Of course and that is sad. But what are the chances that this girl gets kidnapped out of the million-or-so tourists traveling Europe at any given moment? It was a little dumb. They should have had the father not even know his kid was going. That would have made it a little more believable.
I also loved how Liam Neeson kills hundreds of people, burns up building, blows up boats, etc and he returns to the States untouched to reunite his kid with her mother! What!? All in all, a nice little action movie but only as believable as Ahhnold's "Commando."
6 out of 10, kids.