Taken (2008)
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Liam Neeson has become the poster paternal hero with “a particular set of skills,” thanks to the Luc Besson-produced trilogy of thrillers.
Taken, his career-pivoting turn as Bryan Mills, begins with Pierre Morel’s installment, in which Mills’ teenage daughter is kidnapped in France by human traffickers for sexual slavery, triggering a slew of vengeful deaths until she is brought to safety.





