Very impressive body count...

Rating: 4/10 (28 January 2009)

...but not much else to recommend this film. You know the genre -- a tough guy/outsider/one-man-army rampages through assorted nests of vipers leaving large piles of bodies in his wake. It was done by Charles Bronson, Steven Seagal, Jean Reno, and an host of snarling kung fu-sters from Taiwan. The same writers (Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen) used the same formula for the "Transporter" films.
For aficionados of the genre, "Taken" will probably be reasonably enjoyable -- although the hand-to-hand combat leaves something to be desired, bodies fly backwards through the air when shot in a completely satisfying manner.
Liam Neeson manages to make a one-dimensional character almost two-dimensional -- well, make that one-and-a-half. If it's carnage you're looking for, though, this film certainly will do the trick.