Dreadful - Liam Neeson mid-life crisis flick

Rating: 2/10 (16 February 2009)

It's disappointing that films like this are still being made...even more so that they then receive such fantastic reviews! Was Steven Seagal not available? The unidentified 'shiekh' and assoc baddies are straight out of team America...at one point i thought i actually heard them say 'akka-dakka-dakka-muhamad-jihad'.
But I shouldn't focus on just one thing the ENTIRE film is laughable, this is the ramblings of a studio looking for their version of Bourne - throwing Luc Besson at the problem and hoping something good might fall out...missing the point of what the Bourne film did at the time in reinventing/reinvigorating the action film hero and making them believable - the only thing you can believe about Taken is that no-one was paying attention when making the film and those that were chose to ignore the fact and just take the cheque.
I though Liam Neeson was a better actor than this, but then I remembered he did make Next of Kin and Darkman. I guess Liam is approaching his sixties now and needed to feel as virile and potent as he did when he made those two dreadful films...think Michael Douglas in The Sentinel (don't get me started on that one).
Don't watch it. Tell everyone you know not to watch it. If you see it at your local video store implore them to take them off the shelves.