Taken Review

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Taken Review

In taken the dad works in the C.I.A and lets his 17-year-old daughter travel around Europe following a band she likes with her friend. When they get to Paris they meet a man called Peter that tricks them into seeing where they are staying. An Albanian gang of human traffickers kidnap the girls and the dad, Bryan, sets out on a mission to find them with the many skills he has gained from his last job. He travels to Paris and finds out all he can about the people that took he’s daughter from the recorded phone call from his daughter and puts together all the pieces killing people in his path to eventually find the daughters friend dead and then his daughter alive.

Taken is a film with a great deal of suspension throughout as the audience are thinking will he ever find his daughter in the small time period that he has before there is no chance. Things that they use to create the suspension through out the film are the dramatic music on the parts that are action packed. Taken makes a good thriller because it starts with an action scene on the dad doing his job saving a singer from being killed, this automatically gives that element of thrill. The main character is also very mysterious and in a way miserable until the end when he gets his daughter back. It also makes a good thriller because the story line as a whole teaches the audience something and that is don’t trust stranger when you are away on holiday.

The film as a whole is very action packed and every roughly 15 minutes the dad is confronted with the next bad guys that he has to either find out information from or kill. The pace of the film is very high with each scene telling the audience something new, as the dad has no time to waste its all very suspense.