Taken
Movie
2008
1h 34m
PG-13
English
Action, Thriller
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Taken
While vacationing with a friend in Paris, an American girl is kidnapped by a gang of human traffickers intent on selling her into forced prostitution. Working against the clock, her ex-spy father must pull out all the stops to save her. But with his best years possibly behind him, the job may be more than he can handle.
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Cast
Bryan Mills
Kim Mills
Sam Gilroy
Lenore St John
Mark Casey
Bernie Harris
Sheerah
Amanda
Stuart St John
Jean-Claude Pitrel
Patrice Saint-Clair
Pharmacist
Marko Hoxha
Anton
Undercover Agent
Gio
Peter
Leka
Isabelle Pitrel
Vinz
Prostitute
Gregor
Gilles
Jean-Claude's Assistant
Ali
Directed By: Pierre Morel
Written By: Luc Besson (Screenplay), Robert Mark Kamen (Screenplay)
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KayP97
/10 3 years ago
A retired CIA agent Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) has to travel to Paris and use his skills to rescue his daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) who has has been kidnapped while on a vacation with her friend by Albanian human traffickers.
This is a film that defined Liam Neeson as an action star, and it created More
This is a film that defined Liam Neeson as an action star, and it created More
JPV852
5 years ago
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 en More
mooney240
2 years ago
**You will find this movie. You will watch it.**
This movie came out of nowhere! The trailer for this film relied on just one short scene of Liam Neeson threatening a kidnapper on the phone... and that was all we needed to be hooked! A basic revenge/rescue movie elevated by fantastic action, stun More
This movie came out of nowhere! The trailer for this film relied on just one short scene of Liam Neeson threatening a kidnapper on the phone... and that was all we needed to be hooked! A basic revenge/rescue movie elevated by fantastic action, stun More
John Chard
5 years ago
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 More
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 More
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