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TAKEN

Taken is a 2008 French thriller film produced by Luc Besson, starring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace and Famke Janssen. The screenplay was written by Besson and Robert Mark Kamen, and directed by Pierre Morel. Neeson plays a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative who sets about tracking down his daughter after she is kidnapped by human traffickers while traveling in France. Since its 2008 release, the film has generated a strong cult following.

Since the film's release, numerous media outlets have cited Taken as a turning point in Neeson's career that redefined the actor as a successful action movie star.

 

Plot

CIA field operative Bryan Mills has retired to try to build a closer relationship with his teenage daughter, Kim, who lives with his ex-wife Lenore and her very wealthy husband Stuart. Kim asks Bryan for permission to travel to Paris with a friend, Amanda, but Bryan balks at the danger of two teens traveling alone. He then relents, but at the airport, is dismayed to find out that she will actually be following the band U2 during their European tour, something Lenore knew, but kept from him.

At the Paris airport, Kim and Amanda meet Peter, a handsome stranger who offers to share a cab with them and who invites them to a party. This turns out to be a ruse so that Peter can find out where they are staying. While on the phone with Bryan back in America, Kim witnesses Amanda being kidnapped by a group of intruders. Kim is taken shortly afterward, while Bryan records the incident. When a kidnapper picks up Kim's cellphone, Bryan tries to bargain with him, but is unsuccessful.

Bryan is informed by a former CIA colleague that, based on the recording, Kim has probably been taken by an Albanian human trafficking ring, and that, according to statistics, if he does not rescue her in less than four days, he will probably never find her. Bryan travels to Paris on one of Stuart’s private jets, and finds Peter at the airport. After a confrontation and chase, Peter is killed before Bryan can interrogate him.

Bryan then seeks out Jean-Claude, a former field agent colleague and friend who now "sit[s] behind a desk." Jean-Claude is unhelpful, as he knows Bryan will cause trouble. Bryan finds a place in Paris where the Albanians are prostituting girls and follows one to a makeshift brothel at a construction worksite, where he finds a girl with Kim’s jacket. He has to fight off the brothel guards while getting her away.

After the girl awakens, she tells Bryan of the house where she met Kim. Bryan enters and kills all but one of the men inside, sparing only Marko, the kidnapper he spoke to on the phone. He finds many female captives, including Amanda, dead of a drug overdose. At another location, Bryan tortures Marko with electric current until he reveals what he knows of Kim; because she was a virgin and therefore very valuable, she was sold to a man named Saint-Clair. Bryan leaves his prisoner to die in agony from electrocution and visits his friend Jean-Claude at home. When Jean-Claude refuses to help, Bryan wounds his wife with a gun and threatens his family. Jean-Claude gives him Saint-Clair's address.

At Saint-Clair’s mansion, during a large party, Bryan infiltrates an auction of girls in a secret basement facility. His daughter is the last offering. Though he is captured, Bryan manages to free himself and eliminate Saint-Clair’s security guards. He forces Saint-Clair to reveal where Kim has been taken before killing him. He then chases after his daughter to a luxury yacht owned by a sheik. Jumping aboard, Bryan kills all the men aboard then rescues his daughter and takes her back home to be reunited with her mother and stepfather.

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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taken_%28film%29

 

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