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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Movie Trailers / CL-TV Originals Taken takes viewer on a thrill ride
Posted By Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:59 PM
By Matt Brunson
Moral ambiguity seems to be the order of the day in most of modern cinema (recent examples include Body of Lies, Traitor, The Dark Knight, and even Gran Torino), but for purely cathartic purposes, there's still something to be said about films -- competent ones, mind you -- in which the line between Good and Evil is drawn oh-so-clearly in the sand. Take Taken, which operates on a very simple premise: Scumbags kidnap Liam Neeson's daughter; Liam Neeson fucks them up good. Read the rest of this review here.
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