Liam Neeson could give Steven Seagal a few acting tips.

Rating: 8/10 (25 February 2009)

Once two American girls are kidnapped in France, a retired government agent and father of one of the kidnapped girls sets out to try and find them, wreaking havoc and taking care of anyone who tries to stop him.
Taken is a fast paced action thriller that probably offers nothing new, but in very few of these action films do you get a lead actor that can portray a character that you actually end up cheering for, Liam Neeson plays the role of a man on a mission to rescue his daughter to perfection, he's intense and you can tell by the way he looks at a lot of the other characters that he'll ring their necks in a split second if they so much as look at him the wrong way, unlike other action stars like Steven Seagal for one, who is always so calm and collected and doesn't show the type of desperation of a man determined to find his daughter (watch Belly of the Beast if you want to know what I'm talking about) and whose characters are actually very uninteresting because he plays them exactly the same every time, I'd reckon that Liam Neeson could give Seagal a few acting tips and kick his ass with little effort.
All in all, a good fast paced action thriller that delivers the goods, and is also carried with ease by Liam Neeson's excellent performance in the lead role.