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Clear Film. No issue..Very good movie. Sad in real life this happens..And you just have no way to find them.
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This is a classic. It created a very successful series, but for some reason this one, the first, is not as easy to find in the normal venues such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc. The plot is quiet weak, and characters have not a lot of depth but it is okay. I was surprised though by the low quality of the sound and then the image. Not what we are used to see anymore.
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Liam Neeson (Schindler's List, Michael Collins & Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace and many more titles) stars as a retired CIA agent in this action packed thriller. When his daughter Kim, played by Maggie Grace (The Fog, Suburban Girl & The Jane Austen Book Club) is abducted in Paris Neeson springs into action using his former skills to track down the abductors and find his daughter. Once you get past the introduction of the characters the movie is full of action with car chases, foot chases, hand to hand fighting and much more. The nearly 57 year old Neeson is not particularly known as an action star but his pulls this role off with flying colors. The movie carried a lot of hype into it's DVD release and it manages to live up to most of that hype. I rate this movie a solid 4 of 5 and recommend it for it's good action and drama.Read full review
While watching "Taken" I was reminded of several other "Lost Child" films and surprisingly the one which first came to mind was Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Commando." Specifically this movie is what that movie should have been like. Liam Neeson outshines Arnold with a witty and far more sympathetic and charismatic character portrayal. The film's plot is simple but has enough twists and texture to make it into a fulfilling experience. I could go on and on talking about Neeson but I want to say a few things about this movie. Following path of revenge Besson takes us on a ride that is full of action and the whole story is told in beautiful simplicity. It doesn't present nothing new, but the way the whole movie was filmed, with amazing action scenes (some of them brutal like electricity torture) and great actor in main role, you gotta' be satisfied with final outcome. The film takes many turns and even goes on the verge of moral ambiguity but Neeson's charisma pulls the film through even its more preposterous segments. And yes, you know that he's going to save everyone but then again Seagal also saves everyone but 95% of his movies are sort of dense. That is the magic of this movie cause Besson didn't present anything new. You just need to have passable script, good, young director, be European and have good actor in main role. All I can say is that you will still be taken by Liam Neeson!Read full review
Brian is a retired CIA operative. His marriage ended and he has made the commitment not to lose his daughter too. Kim is a very precocious seventeen year old. Brian still thinks about her as a child and is having some problem adjusting. She asks to meet him for lunch, and when he arrives, she hits him with a request for permission to go to Paris with her friend. He doesn't want her to go because he knows how dangerous it is, but her mother pushes him and he is caught in the middle. He reluctantly gives permission with several conditions which are accepted. When they arrive at the airport, he finds out that she and her friend plan to follow the rock group U2 across their European tour. Brian is pissed, but can't do anything about it. Practically as soon as the girls arrive in Paris, they are targeted by Albanian kidnappers who take young women for the sex trade. Kim calls her dad and while she is talking with Brian, the kidnappers come and take Kim and her friend. Brian uses all of his skills and training to track down these people and try to rescue his daughter and her friend. Like a cross between Jason Borne and James Bond, he goes after her. in the process he kills almost everyone in Paris and engages in car and boat chases- Just kidding. It wasn't quite that bad, but the amount of "hero" violence, and the body count is a bit too amazing to believe. He rescues her and gets her home safely. This was a pretty good movie but the action was exaggerated to being unbelievable.Read full review
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