Sooo, we are almost at the end of 2009…! This year I watched a lot of movies, but the one I liked the best was “Taken”, a French action film starring Liam Neeson as the main character. It deals with the kidnapping of the daughter of an old CIA agent, Bryan (Liam Neeson).
Kim is finally 17 years old, and as birthday gift, her step dad gives her and her best friend a trip to Paris, alone, just the two girls. Kim’s dad, Bryan, doesn’t want her to go, because being an old CIA agent; he knows that two girls on their own in another country can be very dangerous. After a lot of insistence from his daughter, her mother and her step-dad, Bryan gives up and let his daughter go to Paris, but on one condition: she must call him every single day.
When the two girls arrive in Paris, a very handsome guy asks them to take a picture for him. He gets to know them, and then persuades them to share a cab with him. When they arrive in the place the two girls were going to stay, the man manages to get their apartment number, pretending he’s going to pick them up, later, to go to a party. After getting this information, the man calls a mysterious person and shares it with him.
When the two girls arrive at the apartment, Kim decides to call her father to tell everything’s fine. While she’s on the phone, she sees that two men have broken into the place and are kidnapping her friend. Desperate, she explains what’s going on to her dad. He tells her that soon she’s going to be taken as well, and asks her to leave the phone on under the bed, and say loudly as much as she can about her kidnapper.
Bryan records the call, and after analyzing the language spoken by the two kidnappers, he discovers that they are from the Albanian Mafia, which is often envolved with women traffic and sex slaves.
The desperate dad, goes immediately to Paris, and calls his old CIA’s friends to ask them for help. In a brothel, he sees a girl with her daughter’s coat, and asks her for information about Kim: she says that she might be at a particular house. At this house, Bryan recognize one of the men that kidnapped his daughter by the voice; he kills him and all his “mates”. There, he also sees his daughter’s friend, Amanda dead because of physical abuse and overdose…
I loved this movie, is so interesting! Besides, it kept me more alert! I REALLY learned that I shouldn’t give information about myself to anyone.
