Taken

An ex-soldier (Liam Neeson) traveling through Europe embarks on a frantic quest to rescue his daughter (Maggie Grace) after the young girl is abducted by slave traders in District B13 director Pierre Morel's contemporary thriller Taken. Robert Mark Kamen joins the screenwriting team, which also ...more

Liam Neeson may be in his mid-50s and best known for playing Oskar Schindler, but the guy definitely can kick some serious ass. Neeson is unexpectedly but thoroughly credible as ex-CIA agent Bryan Mills in this terse but tough thriller from the writers of Léon: The Professional and the Transporter trilogy (Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen). Tired of Bryan's always-away-from-home exploits on behalf of "the company," wife Lenore (Famke Janssen) left him years ago, took their daughter Kim ...more

Liam Neeson lets loose a mean dose of delicious thuggery in Taken, a taut thriller that puts the viewer in the passenger seat right next to a hell-bent father seeking his stolen daughter and the blood of those behind her abduction. Deftly directed by District B13's Pierre Morel from a script by Luc Besson and writing partner Robert Mark Kamen, this tense actioner doesn't spend much time setting things up, nor does it decelerate once the flick picks up steam. Not one to overstay its welcome, this ...more