Taken

Pros: Action, Neeson
Cons: The daughter.  Ugh.

Sometimes I have a hankering for some good, bloody action.  The kind where the violence is gratuitous, the situations ridiculous and the hero impenetrable.  Buckle your seat belt, leave your brain on the shelf and go along for the loud, ...

Pros: Liam Neeson.  Good special effects.  Lots of action scenes.  Mindless entertainment.
Cons: Plot holes, believability issues.

Taken does not venture into unchartered territory.  The premise has been done in Hollywood more than once.  You have a typical highly trained father whose child is abducted by bad characters.  The film Ransom came to mind in ...

Pros: Liam Neeson, good action scenes
Cons: Story doesn't always make sense

"Taken" is the tale of one of a parent's biggest nightmares. Liam Neeson stars as Bryan Mills, a retired secret agent who spends his days talking about the past with his fellow retirees, working security detail for the pop singer Sheerah (Holly Valance), ...

Pros: Entertaining movie.  Neeson.
Cons: Not that realistic at times.  Jerky camera work in places.

I think I first saw a preview for Taken a few months ago.  The movie looked interesting even though the subject, a parent dealing with a child being kidnaped, wasn’t exactly a new idea for a movie.  I had the chance to see ...

Pros: Liam Neeson, Good action shots
Cons: Poor storyline, all too cliche, concidental and predictable

I’m a big fan of Luc Besson and Liam Neeson but I probably wouldn’t have gone to see Taken had it not been for the lack of good movies in the theater at the moment and the surprising 8.0 rating this one is getting at IMDB. Luc Besson merely ...

Pros: Tons of action, never dull.
Cons: A few unlikable characters, more than a few unrealistic moves.

Unrealistic.  But fun.  That's my quickie review of Taken.  Plot Details: This opinion reveals minor details about the movie's plot.Liam Neeson plays Bryan, an ex-government secret agent who spends his days ...

Pros: Neeson's acting, great fight and chase scenes
Cons: Fantasyland of one man vs. the mob

O.K., so it was Liam Neeson as Bryan Mills who takes on the entire Albanian Mafia.  Who knew Albania had a mafia?I was anxious to see this film because I'm a fan of Neeson.  He does fine but the movie is the very definition of ...

Pros: Liam Neeson and his fight scenes
Cons: The plot is a bit much

Taken is one of those movies that should have been nothing more than a B-grade starring vehicle for an aging action star like Steven Seagal or Jean-Claude Van Damme. However, with a star like Liam Neeson it takes even the most over-the-top moments ...

Pros: Neeson, Grace, action-packed
Cons: quite violent

Last night, my friend Libbie treated her dad, her grandpa and me to the movies. She'd won four free movie tickets, and they expired at the end of January, so it was discouraging to discover that our chosen flick, Slumdog Millionaire, was sold ...

Pros: A very watchable and impressive Liam Neeson as an action hero.
Cons: I didn't get to see the Eiffel Tower or I blinked and missed it?

After watching the trailer plus not being a big Liam Neeson fan I originally decided to wait until Taken was available on cable. However just recently while browsing the "T" section of our neighborhood video store a huge movie buff noticed me ...

Pros: Liam Neeson as Uber-dad and super-spy.  That sounds like a con, but trust me.
Cons: No one not from Krypton can do all that.

Taken (2008) Directed by Pierre Morrel.Bryan: I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. 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 ...

Pros: Liam Neeson pulls of the action very well.
Cons: Most of the acting is sub-par.

Take the unquenchable bloodlust for revenge of Beatrix Kiddo (the character played by Uma Thurman in KILL BILL) and the counter-terrorism skills and savvy of Jack Bauer (TV’s 24), with just a dash of Jason Bourne’s globetrotting ...

Pros: Action sequences, no non-sense on the part of Neeson, the ending
Cons: formulaic, bullets miss the good guy way too much

Are we talking about James Bond's drink or an action-packed thrill ride of a film?  I'm not sure why I never saw this gem in the theatre when it was released, but my wife and I sat down with this DVD and had little idea what to expect other than ...

Pros: Run-of-the-mill action flick w/ some impressive fights and lots of action. Liam Neeson.
Cons: Cliched story and script. Some action scenes were too choppy. No surprises. Very predictable.

Last night, I went to my local $2 theater and caught this latest "father goes to save his kidnapped daughter" flick called "Taken". The previews made it look like it could be interesting. It showed lots of fighting and action and things of that ...

Pros: awesome choreography.
Cons: been there, done that, implausible plot.

The idea of kidnapping young foreign girls to sell in the European and Asian sex slave trade is a concept that has been used countless times in film.   Combine that premise with a father out to get their child back, or, a x – CIA ...