Taken

Bryan (Liam Neeson) is a retired spy for the government who has left his job to devote his time to his 17 year old daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace) who he had been estranged from for the majority of her life. When she goes to Paris with her friend she is kidnapped by human traffickers and Bryan goes on the war path to get his daughter back.

Well this film had an awesome trailer that took a plot line that had been used many times and made me interested.

Unfortunately that was where the intrigue ended. It was a competent film with one of the greats (Neeson) as it's lead and so in my mind was worth seeing at least once. The action was interesting enough to keep me on my toes throughout and the pace of the film was just right to not cause that dragging feeling you can sometimes feel in action films.

This was all it was however. There was nothing amazing about it that made me impressed and balled over. Neeson's acting carried the film though his American accent was little to be desired and quite often he just sounded like a Irish man trying to carry himself off as an American. (Which in all fairness to him is what he is)

The action in the film although fast paced and interesting did leave me and my regular film buddy a little skeptical. Neeson's skills as a spy seemed to be reliant on coincidences in his circumstances rather than any actual clever writing.

And were the reactions the characters had to the situation they found themselves in realistic? Meh. Bad script writers. Bad.

All in all, it wasn't one I regretted seeing but I've pretty much forgotten about it already and I only finished watching it an hour ago. You probably won't hate it, but you probably won't love it either - I guess that means I nothing it....

Neeson's performance gained one more face than this film probably deserved which proves their one golden good choice was in their casting. It gets a (just barely) three faces from me.