Taken

Taken is a 2008 action thriller movie starring Liam Neeson.

RUNTIME

93 minutes

RATING

PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned) intense sequences of violence, disturbing thematic material, sexual content, some drug references and language.

MY AGE RATING

15+

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REVIEW

I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. There was nonstop action the whole time! The sexual themes were a bit hard but the majority of the movie was the epic violence and fight scenes. The theme of trafficking actually made me more aware of how that is going on in the world. If you want to know whether or not this is a movie suitable for you and/or your kid, please read onto the Parents Guide below.

DISCLAIMER: This movie's parent's guide will function a little differently that my other movie reviews. This will not be a pattern, it was just the layout that I did before I knew what I was doing. Anyways, hope this helps :)

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PARENTS GUIDE

The Violent/Hard Elements:

This movie is revolved around girls who are being kidnapped, or "Taken" if you will, and being sold and/or forced into prostitution. The father of one of those girls (Liam Neeson) kills and injures many people in the process of getting his daughter back. He tortures a man via electrocution and ends up keeping the electricity on in the end and walking out of the room, leaving the man to become electrocuted to death. We hear the man screaming. The movie flashes into the place where the girls are being kept a few times which lets us see what is going on behind the scenes. Nothing that graphic is shown, but we see shirtless men walking into the "stalls" where the girls are. I'm pretty sure you can guess what they are going to do to them...All of the girls are heavily drugged throughout the whole movie which actually caused many to die. There are a few scenes with the girls in scantily clad outfits while they are being "sold." Without going into detail about all of the violence, many people are shot and there is a decent amount of blood. The majority of the movie is tense and can be hard for people under 14 to watch. If they are mature, then maybe 13, which is how old I was when I watched it. Some of the more benign elements include tension in exes' relationships which resulted in a divorce caused by marital issues. The language isn't terrible, but there is still some. The language includes a**hole, s**t, d*ck g*ddamn, h*ll, and a**.

The Positive Elements:

The whole movie revolves around a father trying his hardest to recover his daughter who he loves dearly. A lot of the people who were involved in the trafficking died at the hands of the father, which I guess they got what they deserved. I don't know if you would count that as positive but I will put it here anyways.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK9zL0ze9O4