TAKEN

Taken is a 2008 French action murder mystery movie starring Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, and Maggie Grace. It is based on a script by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen and was directed by Pierre Morel. Neeson plays an ex- Central Intelligence Agency operative who sets about tracking down his teenage daughter after she is kidnapped by slave traders while traveling in Europe.

Retired CIA agent Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) goes to Kim's house (Maggie Grace) his seventeen year old daughter, for her birthday and gifts her Karaoke machine, but is upstaged by Kim's rich step father Stuart (Xander Berkeley), who gives her a horse.
After partying, three of his friends turn up at his house for the steak bash that was forgotten by Mills. As they depart, Bryan's friend and ex- CIA collaborator Sam (Leland Orser) convinces Bryan to take up a occupation with him: working as bodyguards for the eminent singer Sheerah (Holly Valance). When the concert ends Bryan escorts Sheerah out of the venue and manages to fend off an assailant. The next day, he has lunch with his daughter, only to find that Lenore (Famke Janssen) has followed her so they can persuade Bryan to sign a parental authority 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 and every night thereafter.

When they turn up, Kim and Amanda meet Peter (Nicolas Giraud) who persuades the two to share a cab. When they turn up where the girls are staying, he tells the girls that his friend is having a gathering and offers to pick them up, obtaining their house number. As he leaves, he gives information about the girls to an unknown person on mobile phone.

While on the mobile phone with Bryan, Kim witnesses Amanda being capsized. Bryan informs her that she will be taken as well, and gives her directives. As Kim is being taken, she shouts out as much about her kidnapper as she can before she is knocked out. One of the kidnappers takes the phone and listens to a threat from Bryan before smashing the telephone. Bryan made a recording of the call, and Sam analyzes it. Sam tells Bryan that the kidnappers are the Albanian Mafia, and they are part of a mob dealing largely in sex slaves. Bryan contacts Stuart to secure a private plane, 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 needs to know where the Albanians could be. Jean-Claude claims that there are many Albanians in Paris. 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 saves 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. Next day, the girl tells him that she had been given the jacket at a particular house where Kim and the mob may be. He follows the girl's advice and finds the house. Bryan slays almost the entire gang after recognizing the voice from the telephone call. Bryan searches the rooms of the house and finds many drugged, captive sex slaves, including Kim's friend Amanda, who died from an evident overdose.

Bryan then tortures the surviving gang leader for information. The mob leader reveals that Kim was sold to a man named Patrice Saint-Clair (Gérard Watkins) before Bryan leaves him in an active electric chair. Bryan then appears at Jean-Claude's home and confronts him about his apparent transactions with the Albanian smugglers, threatening him by shooting his wife but not killing her. Bryan, posing as Jean-Claude, then goes to a gathering hosted by Saint-Clair.
Bryan tracks down Kim just as she is being sold in a unlit room but is subdued before he can free her. After regaining consciousness and liberating himself from his captors, Bryan finds Saint-Clair and murders him, but not before finding out where Kim was taken. Bryan tracks down the yacht belonging to the Arab sheikh that bought Kim. Bryan boards the yacht and murders all the guards on plank. He then murders the sheikh and 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 of days later, Bryan surprise Kim with a visit to Sheerah's house to help improve her singing.

Taken was released on 30th Jan 2009. The movie opened to mixed to favorable reviews with a 57% rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It is similar to Target (1985, Arthur Penn) and Frantic (1988, Roman Polanski). One can grab the original DVDs at the nearest store or you can also watch free films online, which include file sharing sites, video distribution sites, and individual films of notability, directories, archives and guides to more sites where you can watch for open.