Amazingly good movie.

Rating: 10/10 (17 August 2012)

I don't think I've seen much that could actually be described as 'better than Taken'. I train and teach Krav Maga and my head instructor has been in situations that I will describe simply as 'similar'. The fight scenes show accurate hand-to-hand combat, including Bryan Mills' ability to take on multiple opponents in quick succession. The near-miss accuracy of his opponents at such ranges is also accurate to someone not professionally trained, unless they've been in as many firefights as a child-soldier in the 3rd world.
The 'plot holes' that some critics complain about are easily filled in by the fact that a trained spy or mercenary would easily have enough contacts to come across any information necessary to fill in the gaps of his knowledge.
The plot was sound, the fight scenes were superb, the premise believable (and one that actually occurs in real life).