Taken
Director: Pierre Morel
Year Released: 2008
Rating: 1.0
Better yet, Liam Neeson Shoots Up Paris. First half hour is laughably bad - "pure" songstress daughter innocently wanders into Europe with her "impure" friend and both get kidnapped within a few hours of being in Paris - before granting retired but still sharp CIA operative Neeson "audience permission" to fire at will, commit countless crimes and go on a rampage. The Agency is given a wink and a pass from screenwriters Luc Besson and Robert Kamen: it's perfectly sufficient to torture if the threat is 'real': there are, after all, Albanian kidnappers and virgin-screwing Arabs and corrupt public officials running around! Ideologically repugnant, but tolerable in terms of surface details: Morel knows how to shoot an action sequence and maintain tension and Neeson's character is marvelously cruel. Also, with a high body count, how is this PG-13? Also, is $500k too much to pay for a virgin?
