Saw 'Taken'

[BrothaHorn]

If you love senseless violence by one good guy against a whole bunch of bad guys, this is a pretty good movie. The plot starts off good, buy by the end it all about the guns. I didn't expect Liam Neeson to be much of a kick *** fighter, but he was..Lots and lots of guns and fights!

 

[RomaVicta]

Neeson was a boxer before he was an actor.

 

[CanaTigers]

Liam Neeson was the big surprise to me. I just really couldn't picture Schindler as a Jason Bourne type. But he is a good actor and pulled it off pretty well. I probably won't sit through it again but overall it was watchable.

 

[russwm]

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[MGS]

...and Obi-Wan.

 

[BattleshipTexas]

He was Rob Roy.

 

[longhrnfan]

rob roy was the ****

 

[Nordberg]

Who would win in a fight between Obi Wan and Batman?

 

[Squall]

i enjoyed it.

Liam rocks
Liam kicking all kinds of *** rocks even harder

good movie if you're in a mindless violence sort of mood

 

[HornBud]

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[Wulaw Horn]

How are you guys seeing this. I thought it wasn't out for 2 weeks. It's on my catch in the theater first weekend list.

 

[MilkmanDan]

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[J D the Obscure]

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[grinder]

Last I checked, it was at 58% on the tomatometer. Not low enough to deter me from seeing this.

 

[Kerbouchard]

It was okay. Lots of action. The one hit karate chops and the guys is out cold is annoying, but as others have said, it is a fun mindless good violence movie.

 

[Statalyzer]

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[Joe Fan]

It would take me 96 hours just to get to Paris.

 

[JonathanMardukas]

This is the edited version too. Supposedly, the final cut is even more brutal. I think I'll wait until the DVD is released.

 

[general35]

om looking forward to seeing this movie. it seems like forever since there has been a violent good guy v. bad guy non-spy movie film/gangster film

 

[RomaVicta]

general,

It fills the bill. The set-up that he loves his daughter is slow and pretty predictable except that the step father seems to be a decent guy. In fact, a lot of the non action stuff is pretty corny.

Still, the man in action was fun. You have the usual guys with automatic weapons missing at close range and one impossible escape, but it's a servicable movie.

Man on Fire kicks this movie's ***, however.

 

[Basketball Jones]

Didn't think about comparing this to Man on Fire, which has a simimlar premise. That movie also has a slow set-up, then Denzel goes nuts -- good flick

 

[Dionysus]

I was just going to mention Man on Fire before I saw RomaVicta's reference.

We rented MoF last weekend and it was dynamite.

 

[Joe Fan]

Man on Fire has soul, while Taken lacks the same.
Nonetheless, better than most of the alternatives out there.
Maybe The International will be good?

 

[A. BETTIK]

A very uplifting edutainment oriented movie.

 

[RomaVicta]

The set up in MoF is slow, but it is much more interesting than the corny set up in Taken. In MoF they have to set up a connection between a burned out operative and a little girl he doesn't even know.

In Taken, the victim is the protagonist's daughter so they really don't have to spend a lot of time pouring the syrup of showing his collection of her birthday photos and his sad-eyed longing to get back into her life. It would have been more interesting, actually, had their relationship not been at all good and him doubting that his efforts were even worth it. Not much of a twist on a tired formula, but at least something of a twist.

MoF delivers that something of a twist as Denzel is searching his soul for some kind of redemption.

 

[Texanne]

Who would win a fight between Obi-Wan and Ditka?

 

[Joe Fan]

Plus this protagonist's daughter was kinda irritating. Whereas the little girl worked to swim faster, was smart enough to get the license plate number and cried when the big man went down. No contest in a kidnapping victim pageant.

 

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[FAST FRED]

I saw both and IMHO:

MoF>Taken in a close call.

However, I didn't think MoF was especially memorable or good.

"Taken" had more action, but much of that action was too farfetched to hold my interest.

I thought "Rambo" was more believable and interesting.

And so were both the new James Bond flicks.

"Taken" started off with a promising setup and beginning and was pretty good through the halfway point, but got less interesting as it reached ithe final confrontations with Liam Neeson becoming an incredibly lucky one man army.

Just my opinion.

 

[RomaVicta]

I don't think anyone is comparing Taken with the new Bond movies or any of the Rambo movies.

When you say "Rambo," I assume you're talking about First Blood. I've always liked that one. Better than Taken, no contest.

Actually a vengeance movie I liked from the Eighties was The Amateur with John Savage. I haven't seen it since then, but I liked it at the time. It's somewhat more realistic than Taken. Savage is not a killing machine. There's also a pretty good twist.