john-3151 Reviews

Taken (I) (2008)

Liam Neeson was the Father we'd all want to be if our children were...Taken

[9/10 · 18 May 2009]

This movie was a non-stop thrill ride. The intensity was off the scale.

I'm not a huge nit-picker when it comes to movies so keep that in mind, but I really enjoyed Taken.

Other reviewers whined about Liam Neeson's character, Bryan, and how he didn't rescue the other kidnapped, soon to be prostitute girls, but that wasn't his goal.

His single minded drive to rescue his daughter was exactly how a man trying to find his child should be. We all know our children come first and any good parent would do all they could to get them back.

I know most of us don't have government training and elite martial art skills, but these were second to his ruthless drive to complete his mission.

I give this movie 9/10 for extreme awesomeness, it was everything I'd hoped it would be!

The Legend of the Golden Gun (1979 TV Movie)

Always save the 7th shot for evil!

[10/10 · 17 October 2006]

If this is the movie I think it is, it is about a cowboy who is given a golden 7-shooter (vs the standard 6 shooters) by his mentor. He is given the wisdom "always save the 7th shot for evil!".

At once point he is tested by a saloon girl and former acquaintance of his mentor and she throws a playing card in the air (7 of hearts?) and he shoots six of the seven hearts on the card and when he is asked why he didn't shoot the seventh, it's the "always save the 7th shot for evil!". When I was a kid this was a great movie, if I saw it now it might have been uber cheesy.

It's been decades since I've seen this movie, so I'm real fuzzy on it, but I'd love to find a copy of it someplace.