Quite shallow and unbelievable

Rating: 4/10 (26 March 2009)

Any time I am about to see a film these days I check first on IMDb. It's pretty much guaranteed that a film with over a 7 rating will be a well made film and anything 8 or above will most likely be a corker. Liam Neeson is also a favorite actor of mine so I was really looking forward to seeing "Taken". But in this case I think it's way off the mark. The film struck me as shallow and totally unbelievable. I got the idea that whoever made the film had seen the Bourne Trilogy and was just looking for another reason to send a covert CIA trained psycho-assassin-with-a-heart on a stylish killing spree. The personal side of the characters is so unbelievable that I found I started questioning the rest of the file. For instance, how could a man who could happily kill so many so coldly in one scene be such a soppy hug machine in the next? It's not even the kind of thing you stop to consider in Bourne. In summary, I'd say watch Bourne and give this one a miss.