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Created Jan 31, 2009 03:36PM PST • Edited Jan 31, 2009 03:36PM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Really Great 4.5

   Taken is about Bryan a ex-CIA preventer who is fast losing his relationship with his teenage daughter. She wants to go to Paris with some friends, but he doesn’t want her to go. He knows that if he doesn’t let her go, he may lose her forever, so he relents and lets her go. He makes her promise to call him and let him know when they arrive. When they get there they meet a young man who looks nice and they share a cab with him. Wrong move. Later he comes back with some thugs and they kidnap both the girls. While she witnesses her friend being kidnapped she is on the phone with her father and telling him everything. He vows to find her and goes to Paris and into the world of sex slavery to find his daughter.

   In my opinion this has to be the best action film of this year. I have never seen Liam Neeson play such a kick butt action man as in this movie. As a young lady who has been abroad and knows that there can be bad things that happens I think all young people, especially young ladies should watch this film. They need to know that it is not as safe out in the big world as they might think it is being a teenager. Kim(Maggie Grace) though it would be fun to follow U2 through Europe, but they never thought about the bad things that could happen. It really fall in with what your momma always told you, “Never talk to strangers” To me this is a movie I could watch over and over and when it comes out on DVD I will buy it. It is rated PG 13 and I think it is a good film to watch and have a discussion with your children afterwards.

4. Acting

   Very Good 3.5

   I haven’t seen Liam Neeson in such a great movie in a long time.

5. Male Stars Very Good 3.5

6. Female Stars Very Good 3.5

7. Female Costars Very Good 3.5

8. Male Costars Very Good 3.5

10. Film

    Really Great 4.5

11. Direction Really Great 4.5

12. Play Really Great 4.5

13. Music Really Great 4.5

14. Visuals Really Great 4.5
15. Content

16. Edge

    Risqué 2.5

17. Sex Titillating 2.5

18. Violence Fierce 2.5

    A lot of great action, but to me it was not as violent as some movies.

19. Rudeness Salty 2.5

21. Reality

    Glib 1.8

    The fact that young girls get kidnapped by the sex slave industry abroad is very true. Though you would need a ex CIA father to make it back home and that is not very likely. But over all the senerio of a young lady abroad getting kidnapped to me is very real.

22. Circumstantial Glib 1.8

23. Biological Glib 1.8

24. Physical Glib 1.8