{"id":38088,"date":"2025-01-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38088"},"modified":"2025-01-01T18:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T23:45:06","slug":"taken-2008-starring-liam-neeson-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38088","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Taken&#8221; (2008) starring Liam Neeson \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z010125zview_taken.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"740\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Taken <\/i>(2008)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Pierre Morel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Jon Gries, David Warshofsky, Holly Valance, Katie Cassidy, Xander Berkeley, Olivier Rabourdin, Arben Bajraktaraj, Radivoje Bukvic <\/strong>and <strong>Leland Orser.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>They took his daughter. He&#8217;ll take their lives.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bryan Mills (Neeson) is a retired Green Beret, CIA operative who provides security for celebrities.\u00a0 Mills is on the phone talking to his teenage daughter when she is kidnapped by sex traffickers.\u00a0 One of the kidnappers takes the phone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mills tells him:\u00a0 &#8220;<em>I don&#8217;t know who you are. I don&#8217;t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don&#8217;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&#8217;ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don&#8217;t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The kidnapper responds by saying: <em>&#8220;Good luck.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Big mistake.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director Pierre Morel was on a roll.\u00a0 He directed <em>District B13<\/em>, followed that with <em>Taken<\/em> and then helmed<em> From Paris With Love<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jeff Bridges was originally set to play Bryan Mills.\u00a0 When he dropped out, Liam Neeson got the role.\u00a0 Neeson thought the film might go direct to video, instead it became a huge hit.\u00a0 <em>Taken<\/em> spawned two sequels.\u00a0 Following the success of <em>Taken<\/em>, Neeson&#8217;s career leaned into action roles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><em><i>Taken <\/i>(2008) <\/em><\/strong>rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z010125zview_taken2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"209\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taken (2008) Director: Pierre Morel Screenplay: \u00a0Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen Stars: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Jon Gries,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38095,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38088\/revisions\/38095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}