Taken

"17 Taken with Tom Lorenzo" is the 19th episode in the Podcast Like It's 2009 series and the 62nd Patreon episode overall. The episode is hosted by Kenny Neibart and Phil Iscove and was released on August 8, 2022.

## Description

"This week on 2009, we discuss Taken with Tom Lorenzo! (@ragingbull1990)

We talk about the landscape of action movies as a whole, Liam Neeson's role in propping up the "old man action hero" trope, and using simple premise but execution to wow audiences and critics alike."

## Kenny's Intro

"Hello and welcome to Podcast Like It’s 2009, the podcast where we talk about the films of 2009 **shouting out everything about Tom Lorenzo: tall, long beard, tattoos on his shoulder, weirdly in really good shape all of a sudden** in 2022."

## Historical Information

"Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson), a former government operative, is trying to reconnect with his daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace). Then his worst fears become real when sex slavers abduct Kim and her friend shortly after they arrive in Paris for vacation. With just four days until Kim will be auctioned off, Bryan must call on every skill he learned in black ops to rescue her."

*Taken* was released in the United States on 1/30/2009 in 1st place against *Paul Blart: Mall Cop*, *The Uninvited*, *Hotel for Dogs*, and *Gran Torino*. It made $226M on a $25M budget. It has 59% on Rotten Tomatoes from critics and 85% from audiences. Ebert gave the film 2.5 out of 4 stars.

## Ratings

**Taken**
 **Phil** | N/A
 **Tom** | 95

## Movies/TV Mentioned

Invictus, Pink Cadillac, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, From Dusk Til Dawn Sequels, John Wick, From Paris with Love, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, The Haunting, Darkman, Schindler's List, Seraphim Falls, The Chronicles of Narnia, Batman Begins, Point Blank, Dirty Harry, Better Call Saul, Charles Bronson movies, The Gunman, The Old Man, Crazy Heart, True Grit, Iron Man, Hell and High Water, Payback, Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil, The Equalizer, Bourne series, Death Wish, Taken 2, Taken 3, The Commuter, Run All Night, Non-Stop, Runaway, Goldeneye, Rounders, X-Men series, The Old Guard, Alien, Working Girl, Dave, Aliens, Ghostbusters, Gorillas in the Mist, Die Another Day, Live and Let Die, A View to a Kill, Catwoman, Gothika, The Call, Monster's Ball, Swordfish, Things We Lost in the Fire, Cloud Atlas, The Kingsmen, Ballerina, No Time to Die, Mission: Impossible 2, Mission: Impossible series, Halloween II, The Munsters, Zack Snyder's Justice League, Watchmen, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Iron Man 3, The Gray Man, A Walk Among the Tombstones, Cherry, Community, Arrested Development, The Raid, Unknown, Silence, The Grey, Frankenstein, Lawrence of Arabia, I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Raging Bull, It's a Wonderful Life, Top Hat, High Noon, Sunset Boulevard, All About Eve, Halloween series, Hereditary

## References

1. ↑ Box Office Mojo. Taken. BoxOfficeMojo.com. Retrieved on July 25, 2022.
2. ↑ Rotten Tomatoes. Taken. RottenTomatoes.com. Retrieved on July 25, 2022.
3. ↑ Roger Ebert. 96 hours to save his daughter from a fate worse than death. RogerEbert.com. Retrieved on July 25, 2022.