Review: Taken

if you like no thinking pure bad ass with no major outrageous stunts, then you'll like it. Neeson was like a mix of Steven Seagal and Jack Bauer. He was master of the throat punch.

Hahaha, Krull.
I never saw it, but i hear amazing things.

I think there's a difference between hard-ass and action hero, I expected LN as a middle-aged superspy to be laughable or even ponderous. But it was fun. And he was great.

I really enjoyed it. It's utterly rubbish, but Neeson really gives it a distinction it shouldn't have.

Why wouldn't you buy Qui-Gon Jinn, Rob Roy and Darkman as a hard ass? The guy was in "Krull" ffs.

I loved it. Watched this the night before I watched Righteous Kill, and this was so much more enjoyable. Probably because I had expected it to be a heaving pile of elephant dung.

It's definitely an odd one. Neeson floats along at the same pace the entire time, mercilessly killing everything in his path with the casual patter of someone watering their plants. And he's meant to be the good guy. It wouldn't have been a surprise at the end if they just threw in that his character was psychic or something because he just lumbers in like there's no danger.

I think I enjoyed it but you know how Michael Bay action films stick to that "7 minutes per explosion" rule? Well this is like a consistent flat line of mild action all the way though. It is oddly entertaining, however.

Make of that what you will.

I watched the trailer and I've seen this film a million times before with different titles, usually with Harrison Ford or a thousand DTV box covers with Eric Roberts as The Baddie.
Nah, I'll wait till this is on C5 in a few years.

I really, really do not know what to expect from this. I've seen four star reviews and I've seen one star reviews. Normally I feel like I have a film's measure before I go see it, but I genuinely don't know whether this will be any good or not. It looks... okay. But I don't buy Maggie Grace as a 17 year old any more than I do Liam Neeson as an ex-CIA agent or whatever he is.

Eagle Eye was the same. I couldn't decide whether it looked like harmless fun or total shit.