Taken

I remember when this movie was in the theaters that we all felt that the trailer that we were seeing on TV was a very good one. In the trailer we see a girl being kidnapped and her father on the phone with her telling her that she is going to be taken but to leave her phone on and shout something that she sees that can help him find her.

In the movie the set up is that Liam Neeson is a retired CIA agent who is working security for celebrities. He foils an attack on a singer he is protecting. Next we see him debating with is daughter and his ex wife about allowing the daughter to go to Paris with a friend on a trip to visit museums. He is against it but is convinced to allow it, he gives her a phone to call him. The girl goes to Paris, finds out that she and the girl are staying alone and is not happy. After not calling her Dad she eventually picks up the phone and as this call is taking place discovers that people are breaking in and kidnapping them. This is the call we see in the trailer.

The rest of the movie is Liam Neeson on a mission. Tracking his daughter through a white slavery ring being run by Albanians he does eventually find his daughter. This is all expected. One might want to suspend disbelief a bit in watching this movie but it is entertaining.

I told my daughter that letting me watch a movie like this is bad for her ability to have any freedom before she is thirty.

As my wife said what happened to this girl is the ultimate I told you so moment for a Dad.

A movie worth watching.