I love this movie so much

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Even though it's fairly predictable film with a long string of coincidences, Taken is a refreshing vengeance movie. Every now and then it's fun to see the good guy pummel the bad guys and come out completely unscathed. So turn off your brain and enjoy seeing Liam Neeson play Jack Bauer.

A couple years after Taken came out I was in my hotel room and decided to finally give Taken a chance. I was so impressed that when I got back home I went out and bought it. If you haven't seen it watch the unrated version. More intense and better action scenes than the PG-13 version of the film.

The dad knows how messed up it is overseas and couldn't've tried harder to explain that to his wife and daughter, who couldn't've acted like more of jerks about being mad at him for not letting her go. They act extremely naive and the wife, who's already divorced him, punches him below the belt, calling him "pathetic" before leaving him high and dry at the restaurant. When all's said and done, he doesn't react realistically coldly toward them like he should. He's way to soft. Why would the wife divorce him and get with some idiot instead who's as naive as she?

Taken (2008) is a pretty entertaining action film that features good acting all around. If I had to sum up the basis of this movie in one sentence, that would be it. It's not the best action film I've seen, it's just pretty good. The movie has been overrated, a 7.8 rating is just too high for this one. It's not worthy of a 7.8 IMDb rating. Yes, Liam Neeson is good in the starring role, even if some of his acting is a little cheesy at times. Maggie Grace is fine, I honestly wasn't impressed by her performance, but I didn't think she was bad. And the rest of the cast is fine too. The action is done very well if that's what you're looking for. The movie will keep your attention 80% of the time. I really don't know why the movie has been loved to the point it has been, I just see it as another pretty good action movie, to be honest it's not all that different from the other action movies that regularly come out. I do recommend the film if you like action, if you'd like something deeper than a regular action movie, then I would say maybe keep looking. I enjoyed it a fair amount, but I wouldn't be all too hyped to watch it again. 7/10.