Taken

Taken- the movie.
Overall its fairly entertaining. The plot is not bad- the movie continues to move quickly- thank goodness. Although I will say that some of the scenes are quite trite and overdone/stereotyped. I mean really- how often can the hero jump behind a couch to avoid bullet holes? Not that the hero in this movie does it more than once but it is a move that is fairly overused in the industry. Like Bond our hero makes it through to the end of the movie with only a few minor bumps and bruises and finally a bullet wound in the last five minutes. The man must have been a genius in his job to have as many men shooting at him as he did and always being able to dodge the bullet. Some oddities about the movie were that he did not seem interested in helping the other girls that were "taken." They only girl that matters was his daughter- while touching it puts the character in an awkward light. And by the way if he has all his buddies that want thim to go back to work because he is so good- and they can have steaks together and work together why could they not help in his mission to save his daughter- I mean what good are friends if you have to go on what should have been a suicide mission by yourself? Altogether the movie was fairly entertaining though. The cinematography was done quite well.