Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

danboss-48684 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!

Bendransfield Taken was popular when it was released in 2008, so popular in fact that it sprouted 2 sequels. All I can say after watching this however is that I won't be watching the others. the main problem with this film is that it rarely breaks from being an unnecessary dim-lit chain of jump cuts and over-the-shoulder dialogue shots. There is little here to please the eye. The only thing this film has to offer is the interesting (though often poorly thought out) methods the main antagonist uses to get his own way. If it wasn't for Liam Neeson, I'd give this a 4/10. While I'm not specifically a fan of him, his chilling performance takes a mess of an action movie and dresses it up slightly.

Alan Smithee Esq. 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.

Mr-Fusion 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