wee_mango | Thoughts on 'Taken'

Just a quick review - I. LOVED. IT. So much so that I dragged my friend along to see it a second time last night. XD Great to see Liam Neeson doing so well for himself (films like this are what he should be getting all the time) and whooping people's asses for about 80% of the movie. XD Not bad at all for a man of 56. ;)

- Holly Vallance as the pop singer - LOL. Like her though so I can't hate on her. ♥

- Bryan (Liam's character) taking out the guy with the knife backstage at the concert set up the rest of the film. :P I envied Holly Vallance so much when he held her in his arms in the car after the failed knife attack on her... (I have crushed on Liam Neeson since I was about 14, so that's nearly 10 years hahah and I've seen about 12/13 of his films) :P

- thought Maggie Grace was ok as the daughter, but she was a wee bit too hyper. XD

- Famke Janssen = <3333

- Bryan: "How about this? How about if I go along? You won't even know I'm there. I'm very good at being invisible."
Lenore: "As you so amply demonstrated for the rest of her life."
Meow...

- the scene when Kim and Amanda get abducted was well done, with Bryan trying to keep Kim focused while she hid under the bed. When she thinks the Albanians have gone and suddenly screams while being pulled from her hiding place scared me. XD

- Bryan's face as he hears Kim screaming down the phone as she's being dragged out from the bed. :( Good long shot of that; he really does the tormented/haunted look so well. <3

- awesome seeing Bryan fly at 'Peter' and shoving him into the taxi at the airport. It would have been interesting to see how he would have dealt with 'Peter' had the truck not gotten him first. I actually covered my face when I saw this part again last night lol.

- the baguettes. XD

- Bryan: (to Jean-Claude on getting Kim back) "I'll tear down the Eiffel Tower if I have to!"

- Bryan politely commenting on the blonde prostitute's dress, telling her that it compliments her curves etc and her telling him to 'piz off!' XD

- the women forcibly dosed to the eyeballs on drugs and going from one client to another. :( :( :( Wonder what happened to the rest as well as the one Bryan rescued...

- Bryan taking out Marco and his mates at the house on Paradis Street with the red door = awesome.

- Bryan: (to Marco) "You don't remember me? We spoke on the phone two days ago. I told you I would find you."

- poor Amanda. It was inevitable that she'd end up dead since she'd said to Kim about French guys being great in bed and wanting to sleep with 'Peter'. She should have listened to Kim. :( Pity we didn't see her parents'/ Kim's reaction to her death...

- Bryan shooting Jean-Claude's wife in the arm. O__O
Bryan: "It's a flesh wound. But if you don't get me what I need, the last thing you'll see before I make your children orphans is the bullet I put between her eyes."
Didn't see that coming at all and it caused quite a few gasps from the audience too (myself included). Just goes to show that it didn't matter anymore to Bryan who he killed/maimed to get his daughter back and when a man reaches that stage, beware...O.o

- Bryan busting the pipe his hands are tied to and it landing on a goon's head...*winces*

- Saint Clair's henchman going to check on whether Bryan is dead and Bryan walloping him in the face from the other side with the door...ouch...

- I was kind of glad when Bryan got rid of Saint Clair. Ugh:
Saint Clair: "Please understand...it was all business. It wasn't personal."
Bryan: "It was all personal to me..."
(empties the gun into Saint Clair and leaves the body in the lift)

- the girls being sold being talked about as 'purchases' - UGH. Assholes. Sad thing is this kind of thing is happening every day. >:O

- Bryan flying up the wrong side of the road in the silver Audi(?) to get to the boat. XD

- one of the guys on the boat looking through a porthole window and getting shot by Bryan who pops up on the other side. LMAO. ♥

- the last Albanian guy put up one hell of a fight didn't he? O.O

- don't get into a taxi with a stranger claiming that 'the taxis are so damned expensive!' XD Seriously though.

- my friend and I came to about 31/32 as the total body count, ie. only those that Bryan actually kills himself so 'Peter' getting mowed down by the truck didn't count. XD

9/10 (only complaint being that the film was a wee bit too short!) If I become famous, can I have Liam Neeson as a bodyguard please?? :D