~ Taken ~

I've heard nothing but good things about this movie from my friends and lately from the Rooster Teeth Drunk Tank (Of which I am an absolutely big fan of, go to www.roosterteeth.com/drunktank).

TAKEN


The last line Liam Neeson said near the end of the trailer was just so 'yeng'. XD
"I will find you, and I will kill you"
Never piss off a girl's father who is a former CIA agent finder/tracker/whatever. XD

The story is basically this guy whose job took up so much of his life that he neglected and lost his wife and daughter. After he retired he is basically trying to reconnect with his daughter. And his daughter on a trip to Paris gets kidnapped and he then tracks her and her captors down all the way from the US to save her.

I mean, who the hell would've thought up of that kind of story? Liam Neeson is just awesome in this movie btw. The ruthless loving father, haha. And I just realized Maggie Grace was that girl in the first season of Lost.

Watching Liam Neeson chase down suspects by just using a single or no clues is cool. You know that as a movie, he is technically bound to find his daughter eventually. Just what state his daughter will be in and how he finds her would be the point of the movie. I was actually thinking it would be an interesting twist if he did not manage to find his daughter or if something really bad happened to her while he was searching, but Hollywood doesn't work that way, or does it?

There is a sequel in the works, but I wondering what kind of movie would it be? His daughter gets kidnapped again? That has gotta be the worst idea of a movie ever (And the worst of luck ever to the daughter). On the other hand, if say he was just asked to find someone random because he was paid would just make it an uninspired movie (I was thinking that would be akin to the Transporter series, which after the first one, got really old and bad fast).

This will be the *POSSIBLE SPOILER* section... ^^
The guy who 'bought' his daughter is just such a big slimebag. I realize the human trade is actually happening in this world, but what he said was just horrible. "I hope you understand, it's not personal, it's just business". Who the hell says that about people's lives? And he has a family with two boys and a girl!? How would he like it if someone took his children and sold them? I do not comprehend how someone can have children and be so cavalier about playing around with other people's lives for their own benefit. It's one thing to say mess around with their income/job/things-a-boss-does-when-he's-not-happy-with-you, but kidnapping and selling is just... horrible.

I guess this movie did make me realize how bad human trafficking really is. It makes you aware of the issues and wishing you could do something about it, but there are so many more people out there much more powerful and motivated. =.=
End of *POSSIBLE SPOILER* section...

Anyway, Taken is a damn good movie. Pardon my rants on the issues in it, but it is worth a watch, and you should go out and do something about it. Kay? ;P

On a different note, I just spent two days out and I'm so god damn tired. And my results are out tomorrow. And I have no idea what I'm going to do.