Taken Movie

Director:
Pierre Morel

Writers (WGA):
Luc Besson (written by)
Robert Mark Kamen (written by)

Release Date:
30 January 2009 (USA)

Genre:
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Cast :
* Liam Neeson as Bryan Mills
* Maggie Grace as Kim Mills
* Famke Janssen as Lenore
* Xander Berkeley as Stuart
* Katie Cassidy as Amanda
* Leland Orser as Sam
* Olivier Rabourdin as Jean-Claude
* Holly Valance as Sheerah
* Jon Gries as Casey
* David Warshofsky as Bernie
* Nathan Rippy as Victor
* Camille Japy as Isabelle
* Nicolas Giraud as Peter
* Arben Bajraktaraj as Marko Hoxha
* Gérard Watkins as Patrice Saint Clair
* Ethan Millican as an unidentified assassin
* Sigmuound Froyd as bartender

Original Sound Track :
1 Opening
- Nathaniel Mechaly
2 Change
- Joy Denalane
3 Permission to Go to Paris
- Nathaniel Mechaly
4 To the Airport
- Nathaniel Mechaly
5 The Concert
- Nathaniel Mechaly
6 There's Somebody Here
- Nathaniel Mechaly
7 Pursuit at Roissy
- Nathaniel Mechaly
8 On the Rooftop
- Nathaniel Mechaly
9 96 Hours
- Nathaniel Mechaly
10 The Construction Site
- Nathaniel Mechaly
11 Pursuit at the Construction Site
- Nathaniel Mechaly
12 Saving Amanda
- Nathaniel Mechaly
13 Escape From St Clair
- Nathaniel Mechaly
14 Tick Tick, Boom
- The Hives
15 Hotel Camelia
- Nathaniel Mechaly
16 The Auction
- Nathaniel Mechaly
17 Pursuit by the Seine
- Nathaniel Mechaly
18 On the Boat
- Nathaniel Mechaly
19 The Last Fight
- Nathaniel Mechaly
20 The Dragster Wave
- Ghinzu

Plot :
Retired CIA agent Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) is having lunch with his 17-year-old daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace), and his ex-wife Lenore (Famke Janssen), so that Kim and Lenore can persuade Bryan to sign a parental consent form allowing Kim to go to Paris with her 19-year-old friend, Amanda (Katie Cassidy). Bryan agrees on the condition that Kim calls him immediately once she lands.

When they arrive, Kim and Amanda meet Peter (Nicolas Giraud) who persuades the two to share a taxi. When they arrive where the girls are staying, he tells the girls that his friend is having a party and offers to pick them up, obtaining their apartment number.

While on the phone with Bryan, Kim witnesses Amanda being abducted. Bryan informs her that she will be taken as well, and gives her instructions. One of the kidnappers takes the phone and listens to a threat from Bryan before smashing the phone. Bryan made a recording of the call and has it analyzed. He learns that the kidnappers are Albanian Mafia, and they are part of a gang dealing largely in sex-slaves. He contacts Lenore and Stuart, and travels immediately to Paris.

In Paris, Bryan tracks down Peter, who is hit by a bus after trying to escape and then meets up with his old friend, Jean-Claude (Olivier Rabourdin). Bryan then learns of an Albanian-run brothel at a nearby construction site. At the brothel Bryan is unable to find Kim or Amanda but instead rescues another girl who was in possession of Kim's jacket. After rescuing the girl, Bryan takes her to a hotel and meets up with another friend, Gilles, who is working as a hotel manager. She later tells him that she had been given the jacket at a particular house where Kim and the gang may be. He follows the girl’s advice and finds the house. Bryan kills almost the entire gang after recognizing the voice from the phone call. Bryan searches the rooms of the house and finds many drugged, imprisoned sex slaves, including Amanda's over-dosed body. He then tortures the surviving gang leader for information. He tells Bryan who is selling Kim before Bryan leaves him in an active electric chair. Bryan poses as Jean-Claude again goes to a party where a man named Patrice Saint-Clair (Gérard Watkins) is hosting.

Bryan tracks down Kim just as she is being sold in a darkened room but is subdued before he can stage a rescue. After regaining consciousness Brian finds the seller (and kills him) while learning that Kim was sold to an Arab sheikh. After Bryan boards the sheikh’s yacht and kills everyone on board, he frees his daughter. Bryan comforts Kim and takes her back to the United States. At the L.A. airport, Kim is reunited with Lenore and Stuart. A couple days later, Bryan takes his daughter Kim to Sheerah's (Holly Valance)(the singer in the movie) house and she helps Kim improve her singing.

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