Hardly believable but totally enjoyable.

Rating: 8/10 (9 August 2009)

Liam Neeson plays paranoid American ex security intelligence officer Bryan Mills, divorced from wife Famke Jamssen but a loving and over-protective father of daughter Kim.
When Kim announces her intention to travel to Paris all Mill's fears and anxieties rise to the surface but he relents and gives reluctant permission for Kim to travel.
The attractive Kim and her travelling companion are automatic targets for the dark and swarthy types who deal in the sex trade, and both are kidnapped, drugged and prepared for what time remains to them for a life in brothels somewhere in the world after being auctioned off to the highest bidder.
Kim's predicament unleashes a raging torrent of revenge in Mills, and US relations with France are put to the test as he proceeds to leave a trail of death and destruction in his frenetic search for his daughter. Much of what happens is hardly credible yet enormously fast-paced and entertaining.
What you see in Taken is what you get. If you are looking for some deeper analysis of the hideous sex trade then perhaps you need to look elsewhere. If you like gratuitous violence and relentless action then Taken will probably keep you entertained for 90 mins. 8/10