the usual leave brain behind film-making!

Rating: 1/10 (29 January 2010)

Liam Neeson stars as A former spy who relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been forced into the slave trade(yawn) There have been better films made which deal with a similar theme on the sordid 'human trafficking or missing persons theme for instance the George C Scott 1979 film 'Hardcore' the Michael Caine 1979 film 'Ashanti' which similarly dealt with modern day slavery and Roman Polanski's 1988 'Frantic' sadly 'taken' is not one of the better films it is in fact awful! Liam Neeson(who despite his excellent acting abilities cannot make 'taken' a good film, let alone an original film it's all been there and been done before!for instance it seems that this film shamefully rips off the famous chase scene from 'French Connection II' and even the aforementioned boat climax from 'Ashanti' the usual frenetic 'Bourne Identity' style of movie-making is ever present in this film one unfortunately with the horrible 'trend' to please the censor's 'Taken' also has alternate versions which no doubt are bloodier seedier, whatever! but the editor's scissors cant save this disaster of a film.