Taken (film)

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Taken
Directed by	Pierre Morel
Produced by	Luc Besson
Starring	Liam Neeson Famke Janssen Maggie Grace Xander Berkeley Holly Valance Katie Cassidy
Music by	Nathaniel Mechaly
Cinematography	Michel Abramowicz
Editing by	Frédéric Thoraval
Distributed by	20th Century Fox Europa Corp.
Release date(s)	France: February 27, 2008
Running time	93 min.
Country	France
Language	English
Budget	$45,000,000
Gross revenue	n/a
IMDb profile

Taken is a thriller/action film starring Liam Neeson (Schindler's List), Famke Janssen (X-Men) and Maggie Grace (Lost). It is directed by Pierre Morel (District 13) and written & produced by Luc Besson (The Fifth Element).

[edit] Plot

Bryan, a former secret agent living in the US, is divorced; he is fond of his 17-year-old daughter Kim who lives with his ex-wife and her new husband. Kim wants to take a vacation in Europe with her friend Amanda, and together follow the Europe tour of U2. Kim's mother allows this, but Kim also needs permission from Bryan. Since Kim fears that Bryan will not consent because of cautiousness, she pretends that they will only go to Paris. Reluctantly Bryan agrees.

In Paris a seemingly friendly young man proposes to share a taxi with them to the house where Kim and her friend are staying, and so they do. However, the man works for a criminal organisation of Albanians to which he reports the address.

In the house, while the friend is being abducted, Kim happens to have her father on the phone. He tells her to hide under a bed and to tell him as much as possible about the abductors, which she does while being pulled from under the bed. She is sold at an auction to a sheik as a sex slave.

Bryan travels to Paris and, due to great searching and fighting skills, while killing many opponents, and torturing one, finally finds and rescues Kim, all the while creating great havoc in Paris. In the process he also finds Amanda, but she is dead.