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 its own genre in a way of Neeson action films. He has that presence that allows this to be somewhat believable. The story is a simple one, but most of what happens is stuff that would probably never happen, but this doesn't stop the film from being enjoyable. I came for the action, not the story. It has the typical American hero, Eastern European bad guys cliché that is so common in action movies nowadays.

The fight scenes for the most part is well choreographed, however the car chases, I found their to be too many cuts too quickly for my liking that made it hard to enjoy. It's a pretty intense movie that starts off slow but really picks up and never slows back down as Neeson runs around Paris kicking ass and leaving bodies.

Taken is a very fun action thriller. I would recommend Taken to any action movie fan; you will have a good time with this one. 7/10.