
By Eddy As a father of a child, I now get to live the nightmarish world of the "what if" zone. "What if" something happens to my child (ie. kidnapping, death etc.) It definitely isn't a fun zone to be in, and lucky for me it is going to last the rest of my life, huzzah! Taken brings us into the world of Brian Mills, a former CIA spy, played by Liam Neeson whose teenage daughter is kidnapped when she goes on an unsupervised trip to France and sold into a drug infested sex slavery ring (sorta like Hostel, but not scary). We get to see Neeson, basically live out my dream of retribution and revenge on those who took his daughter. Now I haven't seen any of the Charles Bronson Death Wish movies which are supposed to be the genesis of these revenge type films, but I was hoping for a lot more rage and revenge filled carnage in the film. At its best, Taken is a Bourne Identity version of Man on Fire , both the Scott Glenn (1987) and Denzel Washington … [Read more...]















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