Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

To me, this movie is perfection.

Fresh and Exciting

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Wow.. this film i would class as a rare perfection. Brilliant fight scenes, car chases and superb acting. I feel Liam Neeson is at his best here. I've always been a big fan of his but here he is definitely at his best. The scenes of gathering information about Bryan Mill's daughter is very well executed. Very clever ways were used in order to extract information and i liked that alot. The only downside i can think of is that its to short and some scenes i think could have been stretched longer to give more actors a chance to show of their characters. Apart from that this is an absolute masterpiece, watch it now!

It looked okay but I didn't like the orange/cyan tinge to most of the movie. Immersive and well placed sound design, almost perfect! I think I detected some dodgy dubbing. This is shocking. It reminded me of Hostel (2005) but instead of intense gore there was a forced into prostitution theme. There were moments of utter silliness where the story was boring and other moments where the story was stupid. It did ramp up to full on excitement and shock. Shocking with one amazing action scene but overall flawed too much to fully enjoy.

This movie single handily solidified Liam Neeson as one of the best action leads in modern films. He expertly handles the drama and intensity of the story as well as the phenomenal action sequences. He's done action before this and after this but this is the only must see. It's a very re-watchable movie with unnecessary sequels, just stick with the original.

That action hero image that Liam Neeson has cultivated over the last ten-odd years is a well-earned one. And as far as I'm concerned, he did it without throwing a punch. "Taken" features a scene - you already know the one - in which Neeson calmly lays out the consequences to his daughter's kidnappers: (Note: read these words in his deep gravelly voice) "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." If it were me on the other end of that phone, I'd know damn well I'm headed for a gruesome end. And "Taken" pretty much fulfills that promise. Neeson moves from one set of bad guys to the next, methodically laying waste to their scumbag ranks. It's a workmanlike campaign of torture and death. What's disappointing is that the action scenes are a dizzying cut-to-ribbons affair, a stark reminder that this is really your typical Luc Besson eurotrash. It's got that crucial emotional element and a perfectly cast lead actor, but it's never as good as that one phone call.6/10