If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it.
I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you. Marko : [after a long pause] Good luck.
Sign In. Play trailer Action Crime Thriller. Director Pierre Morel. Luc Besson Robert Mark Kamen. Top credits Director Pierre Morel. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Official Trailer. Video Photos Top cast Edit. Maggie Grace Kim as Kim. Famke Janssen Lenore as Lenore.
Leland Orser Sam as Sam. Jon Gries Casey as Casey. David Warshofsky Bernie as Bernie. The girl is Some people are just better off being sold into slavery. The central sequence in Taken is, of course, The Speech. The closest that the film gets to being truly gripping is the one where Liam Neeson, as calmly as possible, explains to his daughter that she's about to be abducted. And then unveils The Speech to her abductors. The speech so important that it graced the film's own poster.
The speech so iconic that it's been parodied on Family Guy and The Trip and the internet again and again and again. The beauty of The Speech is in its simplicity, the way it clearly signposts exactly what's going to happen in the rest of the film and Neeson's gruffly resigned delivery.
He's been in similar situations before, which is why there's such an assured emphasis in his voice as he says "I will find you. It's hard to imagine any other actor bringing the same level of gravitas to the speech. If Taken really was a Nicolas Cage vehicle, this is where the whole thing would disappear down the toilet. Of course, because Taken wasn't a Nicolas Cage vehicle, Cage went and made his own version. It's called Stolen , it came out last year and I do not recommend watching it.
Xander Berkley's annoying husband character is called Stuart, furthering my theory that the name "Stuart" is rapidly becoming a shorthand for "douchebag" in film. For the next hour, Mills does exactly that.
Much like its spiritual successor John Wick , the first Taken simply positions its star to mow through reams of anonymous Eastern European heavies.. However handsomely and efficiently staged, the actual action in this action movie feels immaterial. While Neeson would fine-tune his new career as Boomer God Warrior in other, better films see his works with Jaume Collet-Serra for reference , Taken remains the Rosetta Stone for an entire subgenre of January Neesons , and for at least that and not its politics , it should be regarded.
His concerns seem quite justified: Within half an hour of landing in Paris, Kim and Amanda are kidnapped into a disturbing world of sex trafficking. Luckily for Kim, she was checking in with her dad when the kidnapping took place, so Bryan is immediately able to use his counterintelligence skills to track down the European thugs responsible for her capture.
Neeson is an actor of considerable gravitas, and it's downright puzzling why this is his first meaty role in a mainstream film since Batman Begins.
While he's well cast as an unstoppable father who could -- and would -- do serious damage to anyone in order to save his daughter, he's just too good for this revenge flick. And Grace, who's actually 25, plays Kim as way too immature she even affects the awkward run of an uncoordinated 8-year-old girl.
No wonder she was such an easy mark. Still, this thriller could be used as a cautionary tale for trusting high school girls traveling abroad. Kim and Amanda disclose so much information to a complete stranger -- even sharing a cab with him -- that it's eye-rollingly infuriating.
Perhaps French director Pierre Morel thinks wealthy L. But even harder to believe is that a CIA-trained specialist would kill seemingly everyone and that's no exaggeration he meets without saving anyone other than his daughter. Morel shows dozens of women enslaved for their bodies, but in the end audiences are supposed to just forget about them and cheer for Kim?
That's quite disturbing. Is the violence less graphic or upsetting? Why or why not? What impact does seeing this kind of violence have on teens? Families can also discuss the ethical and moral lines that characters cross in the movie. Are Bryan's actions justified because he finds his daughter? Common Sense Media's unbiased ratings are created by expert reviewers and aren't influenced by the product's creators or by any of our funders, affiliates, or partners.
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