Liam Neeson has a set of skills...

Rating: Null/10 (20 March 2015)

Since Hollywood can't just keep an exhilarating action-thriller by it's self and has to make two sequels (one exactly the same, and the other not even apart of the continuous story) to create a franchise, it can be hard to enjoy the first "Taken" film that was awesome. Liam Neeson being known as an old bad-ass may be a head-shaker for some, but I dig every bit of his pathetic tough-guy dialogue and equipped fight skills. "Taken" being his most bad-ass role involves him killing over forty evil sex-traffickers who kidnap his daughter in Paris. Sex- traffickers were the perfect villains to tackle due to having an international relations type of plot with Neeson's character traveling all over. Fight after fight and shot after shot, Neeson delivers menacing facial expressions towards his enemies while constantly knocking down bad guys in his post CIA career. Director Pierre Morel gets the fact that Americans like big movie stars taking down bad guys without making us suffer through some father-daughter sap. Morel blends a mega human rights issue that's handled with awesome action, punishing those cruel men who fill his screen. Neeson, having a blast, gives a ton of energy into his fun role. Only taking up 93 minutes, "Taken" is a smart thriller with package after package of action that's delivered in the finest form imaginable.