Taken…
Let me tell you, nothing gets me going like a good old revenge/deathwish flick. They are the procedurals of action flicks. Everyone knows what and when things are going to happen, but it doesn’t matter. The more brutal the death to better and Taken does an admirable job.
So what’s good? Liam Neeson, he’s not your typical action star. I can’t even think of another action movie that he has done (Phantom Menace does not count). The accent, his age, the way he carries himself, it’s just a little different from the same old same old.
All of these types of films need to have a token interrogation/torture scene and Taken has a new little tactic that I have not seen before on film. Let’s just say two steel spikes and some electricity get intimate. It’s not earth shattering stuff, but just enough spice to prevent this film from becoming completely bland.
What’s bad? It’s a genre film and as such it’s nothing new. No surprises here, you can guess the plot and all the twists coming from a mile away. But hey, who cares? It’s Liam Neeson fucking shit up. Yes please.
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