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Taken (2008)

"They took his daughter. He'll take their lives."
ThumbScore
👍 88%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 56%
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Runtime
1h 34m
Rated
PG-13
Country
France, United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.4/10 (11,949 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
60%
Metacritic
51

Cast

Liam Neeson as Bryan Mills · 71% avg
Maggie Grace as Kim Mills · 69% avg
Famke Janssen as Lenore St. John · 71% avg
Olivier Rabourdin as Jean-Claude Pitrel · 72% avg
Leland Orser as Sam Gilroy · 70% avg
Jon Gries as Mark Casey · 74% avg
David Warshofsky as Bernie Harris · 70% avg
Holly Valance as Sheerah

Is Taken good?

Yes. 88% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 56%, but audiences disagreed.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#147 / 1971 · Action
Rank in its year
#16 / 208 · 2008
Rank among its director's films
#1 / 6 · Pierre Morel

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

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. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Taken is a 2008 French action thriller directed by Pierre Morel and co-written by Luc Besson. Liam Neeson stars as Bryan Mills, a retired CIA operative who has sacrificed his marriage and relationship with his 17-year-old daughter Kim to serve his country. When Kim travels to Paris and is kidnapped by an Albanian human trafficking ring, Mills unleashes the full extent of his "particular set of skills" to rescue her within a 96-hour window before she disappears forever into the global sex trade.

His phone call to the kidnappers — "I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you" — became one of the most quoted and parodied lines in modern action cinema and single-handedly transformed Neeson into an action star for a new generation. The film's lean 90-minute runtime and ruthlessly efficient pacing, moving from kidnapping to rescue with minimal downtime, established a template for the elder-statesman action thriller that generated numerous imitators. Pierre Morel's kinetic direction brought the chase through Paris's underbelly to visceral life.

Taken earned $226 million worldwide on a $25 million budget, a massive return that launched a franchise and established the "Liam Neeson action movie" as a reliable genre unto itself.

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