Movie Review: Taken

Taken

By Mohamed Al Fadhel

Taken is a movie that was released in 2009 starring Liam Neeson and Maggie Grace. The movie is about a recently retired CIA agent Bryan Mills who tries to build a closer relationship with his teenage daughter, Kim who lives with her mother and her wealthy stepfather. While Bryan was working as a security guard at a concert with his friends, he saves a pop star Sheerah from a knife attack. Sheerah, grateful offers to assess Kim’s talent as a singer. Before Bryan gets tell Kim about Sheerah’s offer, Kim asks him for his permission to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. Bryan instantly refuses, but relent after his ex wife pressures him. At the airport, Bryan discovers that Kim and her friend are actually following U2 during their European tour, Which Bryn’s ex wife did not tell him about.

When the girls arrive in Paris Kim and Amanda meets a man named Peter who he offered them to share a cab so that he could know their address. At the apartment discovers that Amanda’s Cousins, who are supposed to go with them are out of the country. While Kim talks to her father Bryn on the phone, she witnesses that intruders from the bathroom window are abducting her friend. Kim complies to her father’s instructions as Bryan records the incident as Kim is being abducted.

However, in the end of the movie Bryan immediately flees to Paris and finds and kills the kidnappers and rescues his daughter from them. They both return to the U.S where Kim is reunited with her mother and stepfather. Afterward, Bryan takes Kim to see pop Sheerah for her first singing audition. 

Film rating: 8/10