Day 270: Taken

Directed By- Pierre Morel

Writer(s)- Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen

Starring- Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Jenssen, Leland Orser, Jon Gries

Critics Review- "This is not a movie about moral dilemmas-it's about a father who will rip out your eyeballs if you don't give him his daughter back."- Brian Holcomb "Kinetofilm"

Rotten Tomatoes Rating- Critics- 58% Audience- 83%

Out of a possible 5 Stars- 3 1/2 stars 

My Review- 

I think from now on, if Liam Neeson is going to be in a movie they should already know that they should not cross him or piss him off in anyway. When this movie was first going to come out I was on the fence about it, and did not want to watch it for a long time, however since the new one is going to be released soon, I decided might as well watch the first one so I can watch the sequel. This movie was not as bad as some people may think it is, its actually a pretty decent movie and with Liam Neeson showing that he can also kick some ass it makes it a good movie. This movie had some pretty cool fighting scenes, if you can even call them that it was mostly just Neeson saying something like "I warned you" and then he unleashed his fury. I would recommend this movie since it is a good watch and the new one is coming out very soon, even though the title does sound weird like this one, and it is pretty much almost the same exact premise as this one there is just something about it that made me want to watch even way before I watched this one. I kind of wished his friends that were shown in the beginning were used a little bit more, as if they were helping him out along the way as one of them did in the very beginning. This movie was really fast paced once it picked up, it was kind of slow in the beginning and I will admit the acting was a wee bit bad, then it got better once everything fell into place later on. I would like to see if anything is explained in leading up to the events of the sequel because it seems like Jenssen and Neeson's characters are back together in the Taken 2 even though they seemed like they were divorced in this one which is a little bit confusing. Well I guess I will just have to wait and see how everything unfolds.