TAKEN

TAKEN (2009)

Genres

Rampage

DUDEFEST RATING

9.80

Dudes

Liam Neeson

By Evan Finkle
January 06, 2014

Warning: If you needed your Nepi-pen (your Liam Neeson epi-pen) to make it out of the Batman series seeing Neeson as Ra’s al Ghul, then I suggest you not see this movie. The dosage in the first half of the movie alone will kill you.

Taken was a pretty simple movie, with an even simpler premise: Dude’s a boss. Wife’s a slag. Daughter gets Taken. Dude gets daughter back.

Dudes, we don’t know what else there is to say about it.

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R A T I N G S

Super satisfied after seeing it. You can’t go wrong with a guy modestly beating up a crap ton of sex slave dealers, but equally, not too many risks taken. It was no Snakes on a Plane. That's probably my only reservation is that the movie could literally be summed up more or less in three word sentences.

Evan Finkle

The ultimate Dudefest movie. The characters are all unnamed, except Liam Neeson, who plays a fictionalized version of himself, and other than the first 10 minutes and the last like two minutes, it’s Liam Neeson (the character) killing without consequence. See it immediately if you haven’t already.

Joe Kennedy

This is a non-stop, balls to wall kind of movie. Definitely not one to watch if you’re trying to get laid, or if you’re trying to go to bed. Maybe watch it during the day, just to be safe

Jimmy Fraturday

Go ahead and try to name a more dudefest movie than this. Oh that’s right, you can’t, because there isn’t one. It’s just Liam Neeson on a warpath, killing every person in his way without remorse to get his daughter. Say what you will about his methods, but the dude knows how to prioritize what’s important to him. A modern classic, the best example of a dudefest movie I have ever seen.

Henry H. Henry

Liam Neeson is seriously unkillable. Seriously. He cannot be killed. There is literally one second of danger and his character just dudes his way out of it.

Pete Hall