sometimes it's hard to be an Albanian pimp...........

Rating: 8/10 (7 April 2013)

....I mean you're just doing your job,right?Kidnapping young girls,doping them raping them and beating them before turning them into prostitutes,stuff like that,and along comes this crazy guy acting like Captain America just because you've taken his daughter.I mean,they're all somebody's daughter,right? Mr L.Neeson is spectacularly impressive as the ex - C.I.A. operative whose estranged 17 year old daughter is snatched from a Paris apartment block and sold on to traffickers. Making use of all his Black Ops experience he goes where Surete either feared to tread or were paid off and decimates the gang responsible for the kidnapping.Having traced her he then steps up a gear and decimates the gang selling her to an Arab sheik who is about to deflower her on a boat on the Seine when his plans are rudely interrupted.He,in turn,is decimated. Now that is a hell of a lot of decimating,but Mr Neeson is a one man killing machine once riled. "Taken" is fast - paced and many Albanian pimps were harmed during its production. Although it deals with a deadly serious issue it is not a serious examination of sexual exploitation.Some may feel that in itself is exploitation by other means,but by bringing the matter into popular cinema and making it better - known,"Taken" just about justifies itself morally,and,incidentally, made a hell of a lot of money whilst doing so.