Taken

Rating: 9/10 (2 November 2008)

"They took his daughter. He'll take their lives."
Taken delivers all the chills and the thrills with a perfect sense of pacing, the right amount of action and a lot of necks breaking. Bad ass impresario Liam Neeson is taking names as a retired spy who is forced back into action when his daughter is kidnapped by slave traders while on a leisure vacation in Paris. He basically just kills everyone he sees that isn't her daughter and hell hath no fury like a roaring rampage of revenge. The sleek action scenes were just downright gritty. There's no wires involved, no gratuitous back flips or slow-mo flying kicks. Its all bare knuckles, street fighting brawl. Great choreography I must say and as it may slightly resemble the Bourne movies, Taken stands on its own feet as a high octane action thriller.
Frenchman extraordinaire Luc Besson co-wrote the screenplay and his right hand man Pierre Morel directs. All in all, Taken is a must-see for all you action junkies out there.