Fairly good but not as good as it should be

Rating: 6/10 (5 November 2008)

Liam Neeson indeed does a lot for this movie, not unusual role for him (recall "Kingdom of Heaven") but perfect job. The rest of movie unfortunately is satisfactory at best. Remember that we already have masterpiece with same plot and clichés - it's "Man on Fire" and script of "Taken" is just weak resemblance to this wonderful example of genre. OK, French director needed happy-end (?!?), let's swallow happy-end in French movie, but another "escape-when-you- are-hanging-on-steam-tube-in-handcuffs-surrounded-by-guards" is so nauseating beyond expression that I really felt sick. Drunk homeless imbecile would demonstrate more fantasy directing this movie than authors of such episodes. Anyway thanks (again!) to Neeson we have fairly solid piece of work which you can see 1-2 times and enjoy, but some estrangement to forget about stupidity of plot really required for fastidious audience.