Taken : Ah, just take it away!
This film works with a situation rather than a full-fledged story. And the situation seems to be the perfect excuse for a lot of wham bam action.
Stupid cute kid wants to go to Paris with her friend. She’s 17. Divorced mom says go, divorced dad says no. Finally she goes. Barely does she set foot in Paris than she and her friend are taken. At the airport, a young man asks if he can share their cab with them and they say sure he can. Noting their address, the fact that they’re on their own and reasonably pretty – he sumons the rest of his gang of drug and women traffickers to reel them in.
But daddy had thoughtfully given his daughter a cellphone. He gets to Pris on the double – and the action begins. And eventually and thankfully it ends!
That’s the long and short of Luc Benson thriller, Taken. The daddy is Liam Neesan. I watched it with half an eye and wished I hadn’t.
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