Taken

20082008
PG-13PG-13
1h 30min

Liam Neeson in Taken (2008)

A retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris.

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A retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris.A retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris.A retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris.

Director
- Pierre Morel
Writers
- Luc Besson
- Robert Mark Kamen
Stars

See production, box office & company info

See production, box office & company info

Awards
- 2 wins & 2 nominations

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Official Trailer

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'Taken' | Anniversary Mashup

'Taken' | Anniversary Mashup

Liam Neeson in Taken (2008)

Liam Neeson in Taken (2008)

Maggie Grace in Taken (2008)

Liam Neeson and Fani Kolarova in Taken (2008)

Liam Neeson in Taken (2008)

Liam Neeson and Olivier Rabourdin in Taken (2008)

Famke Janssen and Liam Neeson in Taken (2008)

Famke Janssen, Liam Neeson, and Maggie Grace in Taken (2008)

Liam Neeson and Maggie Grace in Taken (2008)

Liam Neeson and Maggie Grace in Taken (2008)

Liam Neeson in Taken (2008)

Liam Neeson and Maggie Grace in Taken (2008)

Seventeen year-old Kim is the pride and joy of her father Bryan Mills. Bryan is a retired agent who left the Central Intelligence Agency to be near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. Kim manages to convince her reluctant father to allow her to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When the girls arrive in Paris they share a cab with a stranger named Peter, and Amanda lets it slip that they are alone in Paris. Using this information an Albanian gang of human traffickers kidnaps the girls. Kim barely has time to call her father and give him information. Her father gets to speak briefly to one of the kidnappers and he promises to kill the kidnappers if they do not let his daughter go free. The kidnapper wishes him "good luck," so Bryan Mills travels to Paris to search for his daughter and her friend. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Taglines
- They took his daughter. He'll take their lives.
Genres
Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
- Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence, disturbing thematic material, sexual content, some drug references and language
Parents guide

Trivia
Liam Neeson expected the film to bomb, but he signed on in order spend four months in Paris and learn karate, while playing the kind of role he had rarely been offered in the past. Ironically, not only was the film a massive hit, but created a new on-screen image for Neeson as an action hero.

Goofs
When Bryan is chasing the sheik's barge along the Seine in his car, he appears to be traveling at high rate of speed alongside the barge. The barge would likely be traveling around 5 knots, about the speed of a light jog. The speed limit for boats on the Seine is 15 knots, (about 17 mph), so even if the boat could somehow travel at the maximum speed for the river (which would be impossible for a boat like that), it would still be at a crawl for a car.

Quotes
Bryan Mills: 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.
Marko: [after a long pause] Good luck.

Alternate versions
Some of the shoot outs, the torture scene and some fisticuffs have been shortened in length for the film's US release to secure a PG-13 rating. The run time difference to the international version is about three minutes.

Connections
Featured in The Rotten Tomatoes Show: Echelon Conspiracy/Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li/Crossing Over (2009)

Soundtracks
The Dragster Wave
Performed by Ghinzu
Written by John Stargasm (as Stargasm), Poe, Ghinzu
From the album "Blow" by Ghinzu (www.ghinzu.com)
(c) Contemporary Art
(p) 2003 Dragoon (Contemporary Art)
Courtesy of Barclay and Universal Music Vision, a Universal Music Publishing France Division

Top review

9/10

Never Boring, Always Exciting

This movie had me excited from since I had read reviews on IMDb about it, and it did not disappoint. This is a fast paced thriller that had me gripped till the end, with great elements of action, a bit of gore, a lot of suspense, and all in all a fun movie that was completely worth the 90 minutes.

Liam Neeson once again proves himself to be up there among the best with another brilliant performance and this one has really made me a big fan of his work, especially after great performances recently in Batman Begins, and voice roles in Narnia and Fallout 3. All through the movie he gives you the impression that he is not one to be messed with, and makes the action sequences look absolutely fantastic. The next Bond? Although a bit old, he would fit into the role brilliantly seeing as how easily he carried it through in Taken.

All in all, a great movie, and one I'd recommend to anyone who loves a good action thriller... Nine out of Ten

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Release date
- January 30, 2009 (United States)
Countries of origin
Official sites
- Facebook
- Official Site
Languages
Also known as
- Búsqueda implacable
Filming locations
- Jardins du Louvre, Paris 1, Paris, France
Production companies
See more company credits at IMDbPro

Budget
- $25,000,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada
- $145,000,989
Opening weekend US & Canada
- $24,717,037
- Feb 1, 2009
Gross worldwide
- $226,837,760

See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

Runtime
- 1h 30min
Color
- Color
Sound mix
Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1

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