This isn’t Superman righting the wrongs of the world, it’s Alpha Dad using all the tools of spycraft and a lifetime of expertise on the front lines of international hot spots to take out every obstacle on his mission find his daughter.

| Apr 26, 2025

[Neeson's] presence deepens the role compared to your standard invincible action hero, delivering a character we want to see succeed.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 15, 2023

A perfectly effective escapist fantasy for dads. It may stick to the formula, but with Liam Neeson in the lead it absolutely delivers what the target audience desires.

| Oct 13, 2023

He shows up, he punches, he succeeds, he goes home. It works.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 25, 2021

When the protagonist can electro-shock torture a thug for information, and the audience can applaud him for it, it's evident that an intriguing character has been born.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 29, 2020

Can we get lost in mindless action? Sure.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 25, 2020

Often bone-crackingly, flesh-rippingly violent, but no amount of excess detracts from this junky thriller's jagged appeal.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 8, 2020

Overall this is a good, not great, release of a film that has made itself an enormous amount of money and earned its place among our generation's other semi-superheroic thrillers.

| Apr 10, 2020

The cinematic equivalent of that guy in high school who was capable of making good grades but always coasted through with Cs.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 5, 2019

The audience is stuck with a film that is way nicer than it should be. Sure it makes the subject matter easier to take, but in the long run it really limits the film's overall effectiveness

| Original Score: C+ | May 22, 2019

It was great to be back in the atmosphere of intense audience involvement after seeing so many films viewed in the dutiful stupor produced by "quality" cinema.

| Mar 3, 2019

Doting dads are doting dads, I guess, and there is just no stopping him, which is a shame, as what follows is a big sorry mess of the most clichéed, improbable and xenophobic kind.

| Aug 23, 2018

The movie was awesome and definitely a must see.

| Original Score: B | Sep 12, 2017

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

As Kim, Maggie Grace is a bit old to convincingly portray a boppy underage teenager, although she appears to be giving her best to a one-dimensional role that essentially disappears during the movie's slam-bang midsection.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 29, 2011

Neeson stars in the sort of part Harrison Ford would have gotten ten or fifteen years ago.

| Aug 16, 2011

The dialogue is functional at best, Bryan's motives are basic; it's all apt for this bare-knuckle punch of an action movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2011

It's so awesome to see Liam Neeson taking out the trash in pursuit of his prized child.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

It's fun for about 15 minutes seeing Neeson do James Bond as Daddy Dangerous. But the surprise wears off quickly.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 3, 2011

In Taken viewers are introduced to a new side of Irish actor Liam Neeson, one that is relentless and likes to hit criminals in the throat -- a lot.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 1, 2011