Liam Neeson is the One Star of this Movie and thanks to his dazzling performance, this movie is now on my list of Great movies!

Rating: 8/10 (29 June 2009)

My list of great movies usually doesn't include action movies but more of the movies with depth and tactical plots and the likes, however, Taken is by far one of the very smart movies if one looks closely to details. Like for instance, I haven't seen any of Peter Morrel's before but there are details in the directing that shows brilliance like when Neeson is trying to barge in the apartment from which his daughter got kidnapped and while he is crossing from one window to another holding the upper edge of the out-wall, you can see clearly that the director focused on his eye wrinkles to show the effort of trying to impossibly hold on to his fingertips not to fall. Such details , only people who pay attention to the director's effort can notice them. Not to mention the shooting of some scenes were so masterfully taken like when Neeson is having the last fight with the man on the yacht and when he takes the drugged girl from the Albanians. Additionally, there is the tracing process that he does and there were details which my friends didn't notice like when he gives the paper with the phrase Good Luck but in Albanian and pretends to want to know the translation. He listens carefully to the voices of all the guys and then he picks the one he suspects he wished him good luck when kidnapped his daughter. Also, the way he notices the spotter on his daughter's mobile sim-card. And when he shoots his friend's wife in the hand ,,, all the cold blood Neeson kills with is so believable because it's his only daughter who we can see clearly from the beginning of the movie that she is his life so the story connects so well and makes all the action that I heard one of the commentators laughing at so believable and needs some kind of a certain intelligence to grasp the whole concept of the movie. And by the way, all spy movies are so stupid that they don't focus on the character of the spy and the skills he usually has as much as they focus on the stupid action like in John Woo's stupid action movies and James Bond. It's the first spy character that really can exhibit a set of skills that make you wish you were a spy. They way he reacts to how his daughter is being kidnapped while she is with him on the phone, the attention to details, the use of language, the mobile tracking while the french police tries to locate him, the driving of the car, the usage of syringe to help heal the drugged girl, torturing techniques, the negotiation with drug dealers. God I just loved this movie and I love Liam Neeson for he is really really and by far one of the greatest actors from Schindler's list to Ethan Frome (Stunning performance) to Suspect (with Cher) and many others. It really annoys me so much that some of the people dare to criticize his accent bluntly. Is this the kind of criticism where you insult the whole movie industry by ignoring the performance and shedding the light on the accent!!!!!! Such people usually don't really have any idea about movies, actors, directors, writers and they really don't understand anything but they are bitter enough to go waste their time eating popcorn and making fun of good movies to give their friends some good laughs. Thank God, they are usually few.