Great Concept, Shabby Attempt

Rating: 3/10 (28 August 2012)

Hello fellow movie goer! I am here today to tell you the review of Taken. Such a great concept for a movie: A former CIA specialist is troubled by the taking of his daughter by sex traffickers while she goes on a trip to France. So he goes out and saves her. That is the basic plot of the movie. It's a cool and action-packed sounding concept, but was it pulled off good? Nope! This movie ended up being not just action packed in a good way, but over the top. Where the dad (former CIA agent) gets in the middle of heated gunfights or fights against 3 or 4 men, he barely even receives a scratch. Now i know not all movies are really realistic but I at least like seeing the protagonist who's fighting struggle a little bit, other than the whole conflict. Also i noticed during the movie that Liam Nesson, who plays as the father, kills just about every single person that gets in his way. He even shoots his friend's wife and almost kills her, because the friend has trafficked women before. Then the father even tells the friend that he'd kill his the mas kids too if he didn't help. Kind of too much right? Now I'm not saying it's so bad that it's unwatchable, but in my opinion it's just an entertaining, rent a one time movie kind of thing. So try it out if you think you'd like it but if not, I completely agree. Thank you for reading this review.