Formerly Black Trash
Philosopher, Connoisseur, Future Legend
Trash actually
A turd
A turd
Why did they have the daughter run like this?
Why did they have the daughter run like this?
Why did they have the daughter run like this?
Why did they have the daughter run like this?
What Taken was, was kind of a call back to the 90's action movies, and it worked on that level
but, yeah, it's preposterous, borderline offensive, entirely unbelievable
what does work is the use of an A list star to give the movie some credibility, like Face Off, The Rock, those kinds of movies, and Taken had that with Liam Neeson, so he was able to deliver pretty well written lines (which is what most people remember) Liam Neeson at one point was like a serious Oscar winner type actor, not a type cast white male revenge fantasy guy
The rest is mostly either convincing enough to decent. I saw in theaters around January 2009, and it was a fun experience. What also happened was social media memes and pop culture refracting of Liam Neeson's scenes, so it was really a lot more popular than a lot of similar movies, that came out between 2000 and 2009. Social media was just getting towards the mainstream.