The Not So Late Show

Taken is a story about a retired military man who is trying to make his way to his daughters heart. This movie should have the tag of a line delivored by our hero Bryan Mills “I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.”. This line is delivored with a very stoak and intence tone. Those are not two words that i normally put together, but believe me if they were said to you the way that they were delivored you may actually start shaking.

But I`m not going to bore you with what ths movie is all about, because heck I want you to see it. The action in this movie is fast pased and gives you the feeling that your with the star the whole time. Unlike other movies that will sometimes branch off and try to get you to like another character, this one stays focused on the main character Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson fron Starwars: Phantom Menace) is this man. There are other charecters that make up the cast as well. The is Bryan`s ex-wife (Famke Janssen X-men played Jean Grey) and a relative unknown in (Katie Cassidy fomr Live!) who playes Bryan`s daugher.

The action in this movie is great, and from the looks of it (Liam Neeson) did most of his own action. While we all know that there were stunt men and women. It gave you the feel like in the Bourne series, where it was fast pased and you saw a lot of the actors face. From the first encounter you see with Bryan you know that he isn`t a guy to be messed with. Not to spoil anything but he is one bas a….. well you know where I`m going with this it has a mother in it and two other words that I`m just not going to type. With all the action after the first 25 min it totally makes up for the slower start that this movie most defanitly has. Mind you that the action doesn`t stop until the movie comes to an end.

The music in Taken sets the tone and is very subtile. I swear that there were parts where I didn`t even notice that this was intence music, I was sucked into the scene. That folks is what you want in your movies.

Now I`m not going to be shy and say that I would like to see him reprise this role in a sequal. This should be an one and done movie, It is great standing alone. However, seeing the trends in Hollywood if a movie is a success odds are that you will see a sequal.

Now there were things that I would have done diffrently. The ending for one is a thing that I would have worked on. I felt that it left a little to be desired. Another thing would have to be the look. There is a sence that this wasn`t shot with the best of angles and cameras. But lets be honest folks if you have seen "The Dark Knight" then you are spoiled because it was shot with almost all Imax cameras.

Don`t look to me to be like “Hey he did this and I can`t believe it” Because I`m not going to spoil the movie, nor am I going to leave you looking for things that I noticed were wrong. I have watched too many movies, and written too many reviews to make that mistake.
I would say that this movie is a must see in theaters, because no matter how good your home theater is its not going to take the place of that good ol` movie theater that’s in town. Lets face it if your that guy or girl that takes a look at there TV and surround sound and says “I`ll just wait for it on DVD” then you should really invest into a 10 dollar ticket and see this on the big screen.

Thank you for reading thats it for now,

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