After reluctantly agreeing to let his 17-year-old daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace), go to France with her best friend, Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) is horrified to hear that she is kidnapped by an Albanian gang whose specialty is prostitution rings. With only 96 hours to go before he'll never find her again, Bryan rushes to France to save her. As a former CIA agent, he has all the skills necessary to rescue her - if he can only find her. A retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris. Pierre Morel Film " Taken " is a 2008 action movie , Starring Liam Nesson as the main character . At the beginning of the movie , Bryan Mills , Liam Nesson , a former CIA refused to let Kim ,his 17 year old daughter, travel to Paris with her friend , Amanda .Lenore ,his Ex-wife , convinced him to let Kim go , if he wanted to gain her love . He then approved to her , and what he didn't know was that she was planning a Europe tour . <br/><br/>At the first scene of the film I felt uninterested by the intro , as for me I think it's the most important part of any film . It also does not highlights more on Amanda's personality , although she was a crucial part of the plot . As Kim and Amanda were kidnapped by groups who uses women for sexual pleasure and slavery , the film started to gain my attention and had me in suspense and eager to find out what will happen next .<br/><br/>What I liked most about the movie was its moral theme , people should risk and go beyond the limits for their beloved one's . It teaches us to always be there for our close people , and help them when they are in danger with whatever it takes from risks or limits we go above from .<br/><br/>A negative point of the movie plot was when Bryan went into the building of the gangs as a French Ambassador , and then he speaks in the English language with them instead of French . Also , Lenore showed no signs of worry to her daughter , and did not insist in traveling with the father to look for her kidnapped child instead of sitting home waiting . <br/><br/>I recommend these to movie goers whom like fast action and incredible fighting scenes with a hint of unrealistic action that will not cease to keep you amazed . Also , I recommend " Man on Fire " directed by Tony Scott and " Speed " directed by Jan De Bont if you liked this movie This film would have done much better just after 9/11 up until about 2003 when there was no shortage of scared Americans running around. That and "freedom fries".<br/><br/>Now, it's reduced to pretty much what it is. A tired succession of clichés you expect from a network TV movie of the week. In addition, it's simply stupid. They could have called it "Road Rage Father's Wet Dream". At least then it could have qualified as intelligent satire.<br/><br/>If you were to reverse this and a European country were to make a film about a European spy's daughter coming to America to be kidnapped, drugged, and sold as a whore, there would probably be national outrage and boycotts.<br/><br/>As for the acting, Liam carries the film, but even he can't make up for silly situations and otherwise poor acting. Taken's subject matter is too serious for an escapist chop-socky movie, and the sleazy, exploitative tone undercuts the thrills. Retired CIA operative Bryan Mills (<a href="/name/nm0000553/">Liam Neeson</a>) reluctantly allows his 17-year-old daughter Kim (<a href="/name/nm1192254/">Maggie Grace</a>) to fly to Paris with her girlfriend Amanda (<a href="/name/nm1556320/">Katie Cassidy</a>). Not more than a few hours after landing in Paris, Kim and Amanda are kidnapped by Albanian sex-traders. Bryan immediately hops on a flight to Paris in order to track down his daughter, vowing to stop at nothing to get her back. Taken is an original script by French film-maker Luc Besson and American screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen. Two sequels followed: <a href="/title/tt1397280/">Taken 2 (2012)</a> (2012) and <a href="/title/tt2446042/">Taken 3 (2014)</a> (2015). When Marko (<a href="/name/nm0048076/">Arben Bajraktaraj</a>) is being interrogated by Bryan, he says that Kim was a virgin and that they don't deal with virgins, so they sold her to a man named Patrice Saint-Clair because virgins fetch a very high price. St. Clair's client turns out to be a sheik (<a href="/name/nm0557112/">Nabil Massad</a>) who has a penchant for deflowering young girls. Bryan reaches the quay just as the boat carrying his daughter leaves the dock. He steals a car and drives along the quay until he passes the boat, stops his car on a bridge, and jumps on deck as the boat passes under it. After fighting his way past almost a dozen guards and getting himself shot in the leg, he makes his way to a bedroom suite where he finds a fat sheik holding a knife to Kim's neck. The sheik starts to negotiate, but Bryan shoots him between the eyes. Kim starts to cry and rushes into her father's arms. In the next scene, Bryan and Kim are arriving at the Los Angeles Airport. They are greeted by a tearful Lenore (<a href="/name/nm0000463/">Famke Janssen</a>) and her rich husband Stuart (<a href="/name/nm0075359/">Xander Berkeley</a>). Lenore hugs Bryan in thanks, and Stuart offers him a ride with them, but Bryan decides to take a cab. In the final scene, Bryan takes Kim on a surprise visit to the house of pop singer Sheerah (<a href="/name/nm0883480/">Holly Valance</a>), who invites Kim inside so that she can hear Kim sing and "see what [she] got." By the time anyone would have spoken up, if ever, Bryan was likely on his private jet winging his way back to Los Angeles. Once back in the States, the U.S. government isn't about to hand over one of their CIA operatives.Taken is most often compared to <a href="/title/tt0088944/">Commando (1985)</a> (1985), in which a retired army commando will stop at nothing to find his kidnapped daughter, and to <a href="/title/tt0328107/">Man on Fire (2004)</a> (2004), in which the ex-CIA operative bodyguard of a young girl searches relentlessly for her when she is kidnapped. If you're into South Korean cinema, you could check out <a href="/title/tt1527788/">Ajeossi (2010)</a> (The Man from Nowhere) (2010), which is very similar to Taken in many aspects. There are three versions. The first is the international cut, released as an "Extended Cut" (unrated) on home media in the US, and as an "Extended Harder Cut" (with an "18" classification) on home media in the UK. The second is the UK cut, which is nearly identical to the international cut, with the sole exception of the torture scene (the clamps are attached to the chair in the UK cut; in the international cut, they're attached to spikes which are stabbed into the man's legs), which was cut to secure a "15" classification. This cut was shown in theaters in the UK. Finally, the third version is the US cut, edited by 2 or 3 minutes to receive a PG-13 rating in the US. This cut was shown in theaters in the US. There are three DVD releases in Region 1—(1) the Single-Disc Rental Exclusive, (2) the Single-Disc Extended Cut, and (3) the Two-Disc Digital Copy—and the Blu-ray release in Region A. In Region 2 / Region B, there are (1) the Extended Harder Cut DVD and (2) the Blu-ray disc. a5c7b9f00b Sicario movie download in hdDelta Zulu in hindi download free in torrentWazir in tamil pdf downloadJi jun sam sap lok gai ji Tau tin wun yat full movie in hindi 720pBiatch! full movie in hindi free download hd 1080pCase File 23 'The Missing Ghost' full movie online freeMayday movie in hindi dubbed downloadCharlie's Angels: Full Throttle full movie free downloadTotal Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race malayalam movie downloadSuper Speed movie free download in hindi
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