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Summary
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Acting
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Film
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Edge
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Reality
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TRUST WEIGHTED
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Very Good | Very Good | Very Good | Mild | Glib |
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Very Good
3.5
This surprisingly effective revenge thriller plays better than its formulaic trailer might suggest. The mix of A List … |
Very Good
3.5
Liam Neeson carries the movie, so much so that no other cast member is worth noting. Sure, he’s slumming a bit here, b… |
Very Good
3.5
The ridiculous set-up is more than redeemed by a cornucopia of pleasingly hard boiled dialog, plus a couple of tortuous… |
Mild
2.4
Violent as hell. |
Glib
1.3
The movie asks us to accept that white slavery… |
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Really Great
4.5
Taken is about Bryan a ex-CIA preventer who is fast losing his relationship with his teenage daughter. She wants to go … |
Very Good
3.5
I haven’t seen Liam Neeson in such a great movie in a long time. |
Really Great
4.5
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Mild
2.5
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Glib
1.8
The fact that young girls get kidnapped by the sex slave industry abroad is very true. Though you would need a ex CIA f… |
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OK
2.5
“Taken” won’t be perhaps the most water-tight examination of international sex-trafficking you’re ever likely to see, b… |
Good
3.0
Neeson gives an enthralling if arguably un-amazing lead performance, sincere in his determination to retrieve his daugh… |
Good
3.0
Visually lush (not necessarily making the most of the setting but doing it some justice) and competently directed if no… |
Mild
2.0
Not likely to gross you out, with little blood for all the on-screen violence, little sex for the ultimate subject matt… |
Glib
2.0
Glib through and through, though the film’s more shallow strengths go some way towards entertaining even those who migh… |
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May 16, 2009 5:48PM
Johnny Pace
64 posts
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Regarding modern marvel’s Review |
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Jan 9, 2009 8:27AM
Wick
221 posts
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Excellent review Tom. I hadn’t heard anything about this movie till seeing a run of trailers for it on TV the past few days. The trailer left me scratching my head since they made it look like Neeson anticipated his daughter’s abduction as payback for something he’d done. Apparently not, which makes the plot setup seem overly contrived. In any case, your review is very helpful in understanding this as a fairly run-of-the-mill action pic. |
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Jan 9, 2009 3:57AM
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