Taken
France
2008
93 Min
Color
2.35:1
Albanian, Arabic, French, English
Synopsis
Seventeen year-old Kim is the pride and joy of her father Bryan Mills. Bryan is a retired agent who left the Secret Service to be near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. Kim manages to convince her reluctant father to allow her to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When the girls arrive in Paris they share a cab with a stranger named Peter, and Amanda lets it slip that they are alone in Paris. Using this information an Albanese gang of human traffickers kidnaps the girls. Kim barely has time to call her father and give him information. Her father gets to speak briefly to one of the kidnappers and he promises to kill the kidnappers if they do not let his daughter go free. The kidnapper wishes him “good luck,” so Bryan Mills travels to Paris to search for his daughter and her friend. –IMDb
Director
Pierre Morel
Pierre Morel (born 12 May 1964) is a French cinematographer and film director.
After spending his formative years in cinema school, Pierre Morel debuted in 2000 as camera operator with the first Richard Berry’s film L’Art (délicat) de la séduction.
The next year, he began a career as cinematographer, working with such directors as Louis Leterrier, Corey Yuen, Nancy Meyers, Alek Keshishian, Luc Besson and Phillip Atwell. At the same time, he directed his first film District 13 in 2004, followed by Taken in 2008 and From Paris with Love, in 2010.
According to an online article, Morel has taken over the directing duties for the upcoming Paramount remake of Frank Herbert’s Dune. Morel will replace Peter Berg who left the film in October 2009. He has since left the project. He was in talk to direct the film adaption of the Hasbro game Ouija.
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Some critics have the opinion that Morel has a racist agenda for his negative portrayal of Albanians… read more
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rado
19May12
Pro-active action-thriller blasts the hypocrisy of political correctness, enlightens more than most social documentaries, saves the bruised genre.
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Xesus Duarte Sith Patiño
19Apr12
i really enjoy it. Simple plot, good action scenes, etc. Is an action movie after all.
Rock and Bull
4Mar12
If they had taken this into R rated territory it would have been awesome. Still pretty good.
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Just because your dad is paranoid, it doesn't mean there's nobody out to get you!
By harrycaul on March 26, 2011
When his daughter is abducted by a gang of Albanian sex traffickers while holidaying in Europe, Liam Neeson’s ex-CIA agent swears vengeance and sets off in pursuit. Much as I was looking forward to… read review
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Lo que funciona de Taken es su enfoque directo de la acción. Después de algunas repeticiones es obvio lo básico de la construcción de su guión, sin embargo es la ejecución en donde destaca Taken, ejecución… read review
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