Taken (Single-Disc Extended Edition) |  | Actors: Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace
Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  415 reviews
Sales Rank: 591
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Unknown)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Running Time: 91 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: FOXD2255352D
UPC: 024543553526
EAN: 0024543553526
ASIN: B001TODCII
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: May 12, 2009
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What could be a skillful but ordinary action flick gets a surprising emotional heft from the presence of Liam Neeson as the hero. Bryan Mills (Neeson) has given up his career as a spy to form a relationship with his estranged teenage daughter--but when, on a trip to Paris, she's kidnapped by slavers, Mills uses all his connections and skills to turn the city of lights upside down and rescue her. Like most of the movies that writer/producer Luc Besson has a hand in (such as La Femme Nikita, The Transporter, Unleashed, and many other French action movies), Taken drips with lurid violence (a bit toned-down to get a PG-13 rating, but there's still plenty of it), deranged sentimentality, and stereotypes of all kinds. But this doesn't stop his movies from being effective thrill-rides, and Taken is no exception. Taken pays just enough attention to the illusion of procedure--making it seem like Mills knows all the right steps to track down his daughter--that the movie cheerfully seduces your suspension of disbelief, despite many plot holes and scenes where Mills doesn't get scratched despite bullets flying in all directions or pretends to be a French policeman despite not speaking French or even adopting a French accent. What holds it all together is Neeson; his gravitas and emotional availability make his character--the usual action fantasy of impossible competence and righteous fury--somehow seem real and relatable. --Bret Fetzer
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Product Description
Genre: Action/Adventure
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 12-MAY-2009
Media Type: DVD
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 415
 Taken, a challenge to your heart August 31, 2010
E. H. Mishler (Goshen, IN)
Taken is a moving story of a father's love. It should challenge young girls out of their indifference to the difficulties which they could encounter. The kidnapping seems realistic enough, but I'm not sure one man could take on all those professional criminals and succeed indefinitely.
OUTSTANDING/ ALL-AMERICAN WHITE MALE KEEPS STANDARD August 20, 2010
music man
ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING!!!
Everyone waits for Hollywood to get it right. Be design, they rarely do on purpose.
Finally, the All-American White male serving HIS Sacred country on all levels with what really matters... sparking confidence, once again, to those who Would!!
TAKEN #2 needs to happen
Awesome movie August 20, 2010
Jeffrey E Fowler (Lodi, WI, US)
The action is non stop! The unrated version is better than the theatrical version by far. I give it 5 stars!
 It's good so long as you're able to suspend your disbelief August 20, 2010
kailu (Beverly Hills, CA)
Taken is an easy movie to watch, and it passes quickly at only an hour and a half. The plot of the story has already been discussed, so suffice to say that it isn't at all a realistic movie. It isn't really believable that a man in his fifties will outfight dozens and dozens of armed, young men, no matter how well trained he is. Especially considering that at many points in the movie, the bad guys have clear shots at him, yet inexplicably miss.
There are logic gaps everywhere. For example, in the scene where Neeson visits the home of his friend the chief inspector of French Police (or whoever he is), the friend sneaks a gun to the dinner table and tries to kill Neeson, who had earlier emptied the gun of its bullets. What was to prevent the man from checking his gun to see if it had any bullets in it, before coming to the table?
Silly risk. Anyway...
If the movie were done with a tongue-in-cheek, self aware attitude it might be more fun. The insertion of techno music during action sequences (the sort of action sequence where Neeson looses five or six rounds and kills five or six men, and those same men miss Neeson with one million sub-machinegun bullets) seems to indicate that this is that sort of picture.
However, the movie seems to take itself too seriously. How come Neeson kills five billion (maybe fewer, whatever) people but doesn't have to face any cops for what he did?
Was his daughter emotionally scarred at all from all of this? She seemed pretty okay at the end of the film, even though it all happened recently (her dad's arm was still in a cast). Then it's implied she will become a professional pop star. I guess as a reward for being spoiled her whole life and ignoring her father's warnings.
I wonder if she cared that her "best friend" died horribly of a drug overdose while being abused by thugs.
But never mind, she will be a pro singer.
Hey, why did Neeson shoot the French guy's wife? Oh yes, to prove he meant business! He really wanted his daughter back!
"Hey, I'll murder your wife, your kids, and then you, mister. My kid's life is the only thing that's important!"
Lots of random, innocent slobs get killed, too. Like some party security guy watching an elevator, or a guy carrying champagne. Probably just earning a salary and waiting for the clock to indicate it's time to go home to their apartment and maybe play a DVD and relax.
But NO! They got in Neeson's way, so NECK-SNAP!
That's the trouble with this movie. We're supposed to believe that Neeson is the good guy, but he's selfish. He kills people who may not even be evil, just to accomplish his goal.
But at least he did accomplish his goal. Hey, he DID call the police about all those girls he found, being used as prostitute slaves, didn't he? He DID, right?
No? Well how about his daughter's dead friend's cousins? What did they think about their relative dying horribly?
Who cares! Neeson's kid will be a pop star.
Neeson is good, but I think we've seen all this before August 17, 2010
Dennis Brandt (Red Lion, PA United States)
Liam Neeson's characterization of a highly trained black ops operative desperate to retrieve his kidnapped daughter who is for sale as a sex slave is excellent. He portrayed a wide range of emotions in the film and did them all well and is especially good as a father competing with his daughter's rich stepfather for her affections. When he assumes his black ops persona, he has a subtle way of making you believe that he would tear your face off if necessary and move on impassively. But two words kept popping into my head during every one of the film's action scenes: JACK BAUER. It's all there: the automatic weapon fire that always misses our hero until the obligatory non-fatal shoulder wound at the film's climax; the pistol fire the hero uses that NEVER misses; the impossible odds our hero always overcomes; the flaunting of every rule in the book and getting away with it; dozens upon dozens of bad guys dying by his hand, etc. Taken is a well crafted thriller and Neeson is very good in his roll. Had it been the first film of its genre I had seen, I would have boosted the rating. By now, it's old hat.
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