Glad that Taken Did Not Go Straight to DVD!

Rating: 10/10 (14 January 2013)

As it spawned a sequel. As Liam Neeson helped to revive his career. As he is now an action star who can really act! He plays ex CIA agent Bryan Mills, as he wants to make up for the lost time he missed with his daughter on missions(Played by a then 25-year old Maggie Grace as her character Kim, was 17).
As Kim lives with Bryan's ex wife and wealthy stepfather. At first he is reluctant to have Kim and her best friend go to Europe on an U2 tour. But only if she calls every hour or so, does he reluctantly agree.
But when she and her friend meets a stranger named Peter who takes them to their hotel. Very little do they know that they will be kidnapped in a sex trafficking case.
On the phone after Kim and her friend are taken, hence the title, Bryan decides to go to Europe with the help of his ex and her new husband, and his skills and that of his also friends that used to work in the CIA to get Kim and her friend.
Really very suspenseful and according to Liam Neeson, the movie would had gone to DVD had it not gone into the theaters. But it helped revive his career in the process!