Taken

Rating: 9/10 (26 March 2014)

The movie Taken is about a father named Brian whose daughter is kidnapped by a sex trafficking organization in Europe. It starts with Brian shown as a single dad who has just recently quit his job as a CIA agent to be closer to his daughter. He goes to his daughter's seventeenth birthday party at his exwife's husbands house. The husband is extremely rich and gets her a horse overshadowing Brians present of a karoke machine. In his absence his daughter seems to have become very attached to material objects. She plans to go on a tour of Europe following around a rock band but lies to Brian about it and says she is only going to France for vacation. Her father knows of the hazards of traveling internationally and is hesitant to let her go. He initially says no and his daughter is taken by a sex trafficking organization. The movie is about him tracking down the people who captured his daughter, killing all of them and getting her back. Taken and it has and is one of my favorite movies that I have ever seen. The action scenes with Liam Nesson are outstanding and the story is entertaining. This movie kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time. Liam Nesson seems to play the father role in many films and there is a reason, he plays it extremely well. He reminds me of my father slightly being a sinister and caring guy, this helped me to have a deeper connection with the movie. The action alone however is not the reason that Taken is one of my favorite movies of all time, the aspect of the movie that was especially evident was the devotion and dedication to his daughter that Brian showed. It proved to me that one man can really make a difference if he possess the skills and the work ethic to do so. It also taught me the depth at which a man can love something. Brian truly showed that it is possible to love someone or something so much that they would go to the end of the world and back to save them. Brian went through some incredible hardships because he cared for his daughter and it is something that I envy and hope that my father would do the same for me. It connects to a book I recently read, Half the Sky and shows the difference between the importance of a daughter in America and the importance of girl children in third world countries. The amount Americans care about their own I think it was separates our country from the rest. If I were to rate this movie out of 10 I would give it a 9.