Taken
Taken

Taken (2008)

7.4 ? Feb 18, 2008 1h 34m

Overview

Bryan Mills, a former government operative, is trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter Kim. After reluctantly agreeing with his ex-wife to let Kim go to Paris on vacation with a friend, his worst nightmare comes true. While on the phone with his daughter shortly after she arrives in Paris, she and her friend are abducted by a gang of human traffickers. Working against the clock, Bryan relies on his extensive training and skills to track down the ruthless gang that abducted her and launch a one-man war to rescue his daughter.

Genres

Action Thriller

Release Date

February 18, 2008

Rating

7.4 /10

Runtime

1h 34m

Official Trailer from YouTube

Liam Neeson

Liam Neeson

Bryan Mills

Maggie Grace

Maggie Grace

Kim Mills

Famke Janssen

Famke Janssen

Lenore St. John

Olivier Rabourdin

Olivier Rabourdin

Jean-Claude Pitrel

Leland Orser

Leland Orser

Sam Gilroy

Jon Gries

Jon Gries

Mark Casey

David Warshofsky

David Warshofsky

Bernie Harris

Holly Valance

Holly Valance

Sheerah

Gérard Watkins

Gérard Watkins

Patrice Saint-Clair

Arben Bajraktaraj

Arben Bajraktaraj

Marko Hoxha

Xander Berkeley

Xander Berkeley

Stuart St. John

Katie Cassidy

Katie Cassidy

Amanda

Radivoje Bukvić

Radivoje Bukvić

Anton

Nicolas Giraud

Nicolas Giraud

Peter

Jalil Naciri

Jalil Naciri

Ali

Goran Kostić

Goran Kostić

Gregor

Camille Japy

Camille Japy

Isabelle Pitrel

Héléna Soubeyrand

Héléna Soubeyrand

Girl with the Jacket

Opender Singh

Opender Singh

Singh

Nabil Massad

Nabil Massad

Sheik Raman

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GeekMasher

9.5/10

Jan 07, 2013

One of my best films of all time. Apart from they made a second one, this a great movie! Liam Neeson trying to save this daughter, in France, from being sold to the highest bidder. An action packed film with good acting and great fight scenes.

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Per Gunnar Jonsson

8.0/10

Mar 09, 2013

This is a very good action/thriller flick. It currently holds a 7.9 rating at IMDb which it certainly deserves. The few people giving this a 1 or 2 star rating must be disgruntled French people who do not like to see the French government officials portrayed as corrupt bastards (which they often are anyway). I generally like Liam Neeson so the fact that he is in the movie kind of got the movie off to a good start already. In this movie he plays a real badass, I-kick-the-shit-out-of-anyone-standing-in-my-way, former CIA agent hunting down the despicable low-life that kidnapped his daughter. I really, really liked the role he played in this movie. He makes characters like Bourne look like wussy. Even I was surprised when he actually shot the wife of the corrupt French government bastard to get him to talk. That was just awesome. The movie is pretty much action all the way. Well, it starts off laying the groundwork for the story and here Liam Neeson is indeed playing a fairly timid father that seems to be a bit out of his depth. Once he gets thrown into his right element he quickly casts of the sheep's fur and reveals the wolf (sabre-toothed) underneath. This is really a textbook action/thriller movie. A very enjoyable hour and a half indeed.

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kineticandroid

Jun 22, 2014

Daddy knows best — especially when it comes to a mostly untrustworthy cast of Europeans — in this action film. Liam Neeson's performance elevated this from being forgettable. Otherwise, I kind of didn't care.

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Gimly

6.0/10

Mar 16, 2019

Probably not good enough to have started the Revenge-Renaissance that it somehow did, but still a pretty entertaining time. _Taken_ does hit a lot of clichés though, and I mean, it starts hitting them right away. We're literally only minutes into the film before we find out that Neeson's lead character is divorced, and his wife has re-married to a decent, rich provider, but one who's bookish and could never take him in a fight, and that the present he got for his daughter is for an interest that she no longer has. But once we get into the action proper, it's pretty great. _Final rating:★★★ - I liked it. Would personally recommend you give it a go._

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JPV852

8.0/10

May 25, 2020

Random viewing tonight, just wanted a slick and simple action-thriller and this fit the bill. Liam Neeson kicks ass and can see why his career in this genre really took off. The camera work was probably the biggest drawback (shaky cam), likely trying emulate the Bourne franchise or something. But entertaining flick that doesn't overstay its welcome coming in at around 90-minutes. **4.0/5**

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John Chard

7.0/10

Jun 11, 2020

Your arrogance offends me. It is proof positive that you can still have a basic and formulaic genre piece and the multiplex crowd will forgive it the sins of film making. For here we have a revenge thriller that is over reliant on a ream of contrivances? The kind that people scoff at when horror pictures not wanting to be serious get screamed down for?. There is also some pretty poor acting performances on show, the usually reliable Famke Jansen looks lost when asked to show emotion, Maggie Grace needs to go back to acting school, whilst some of the French actors on show give French actors a bad name. However the true saving grace in the movie, outside of some serious revenge fuelled torture sequences, is Liam Neeson in the lead role of Bryan Mills. Charismatic and believable as a father hell bent on finding the one thing worthwhile that he has in his life, it's only here that Luc Besson & Robert Mark Kamen's uneven writing gets any sort of urgency to go with the tidily put together action sequences. Taken is an enjoyable film if taken within the context of its genre, and for sure the subject matter of skin trafficking is a noteworthy plot, but no one can surely deny it doesn't have a shallow core and honestly isn't giving anything new to a pretty stagnated formula... By the by, the thrills ensure popcorn pleasing pleasures and thus it's rated as such. 7/10

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