I'll write about Taken in the notes, but while I didn't love the hyped up direction in the latter part of the film, I did think it moved right along (the film is only eighty-four minutes sans titles) and was a decent bottom of the bill programmer (if they had bottom of the bills anymore) and I'm a sucker for this type of story, even though the plotting is very cliched - and I enjoy Mr. Neeson, who is very good in the film. The biggest problem, for me, was a simple one - there's no strong villain - the person you think is the villain is, of course, A villain, but there is really no THE villain - there are multiple villains and that doesn't make for as satisfying a drama.