Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Taken - Kidnapping and human traffic



This is a good action movie... probably not as good as “Man on fire” but a great movie to enjoy even when you’re alone. Liam Neeson plays the role of Bryan Mills, a divorced man, retired from the Secret Service who wants to concentrate on renewing his relationship with his seventeen year-old daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace). Just like every teenager, Kim dreams about a vacation abroad with her best friend Amanda, far away from her parents so she convinces her father to let her travel to Paris for a couple of days under the false pretext that “Amanda’s grown up cousin in also going to be there”.

When the girls arrive in Paris, they are kidnapped. The mission? Desperate father is supposed to find his daughter using the very little clues he has managed to gather. Luckily, Kim manages to call her father minutes before the kidnapping and she is given instructions to put the phone down and describe shortly the men that were about to take her. The kidnapping scene is probably the best one in the movie. Can you imagine what is inside the desperate heart and mind of a father which hears on the phone how his daughter is being taken by an Albanese gang and moved God knows were? Shocking indeed!

The former secret agent and spy has to use his intuition and skills to track down Kim which is on another continent and could be taken out of France at any time. The plot thickens when the man finds out that he is dealing with a network of human traffickers…


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