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RE: Agreed - 23/10/2008 3:04:20 PM

michaelqb

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My mates went to see it .. and I .. on Empire's review decided not to bother that night and spend some quality time at home...
welll turns out time you can overcook pasta and Taken was an entertaining couple of hours... a sarcastic thanks

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Review - 25/10/2008 3:07:33 PM

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Slow to start off and lacks in places but still a great film. Fantastic action bits but terrible American accent. 3.5 STARS.

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Taken - 25/10/2008 7:22:51 PM

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If the film had been made with anyone else it would have been your usual techno-thriller but Liam Neeson pushes it up to three stars. The action is good fun and some of the spy like camera-work is alright but Neeson holds it together. Another reason it is an entertaining and interesting film is because of the relationship Neeson has with his daughter. That is what pushes the film along and makes you interested in the story. Of course it has some major problems. It tries to mix the action style of Wanted or the matrix with a modern day Bourne spy flick but can't get the balance right! Also, a lot of the directing seems as if he's trying to impress in parts, but it really isn't working. Overall, Taken is an entertaining 90 minutes with a clever but cliched story and a pretty good turn from Liam Neeson with just a bit of a floppy script and a bit too much unbelievable violence that doesn't suit the target audience. Whoever that may be!

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RE: Do Not Listen to Empire - 26/10/2008 6:53:59 PM

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Wilbert

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RE: Do Not Listen to Empire - 26/10/2008 7:01:40 PM

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Wilbert, wind your neckin, get a life and pull your cock out of Empires ass. This is a members review site and ....we...well write reviews. Excuse me that I really enjoyed the film and decided to share my opinion. As for you calling me an idiot, I have to agree, I do idiotic things from time to time, most I cant help as I have down -syndrome but I just put them down to enjoying life.

Your status shows "Forum Elder", then grow up and put a review on, dont bitch about people from the safety of your computer.

The only thing I have left to say is that your a shit house.

To all other people who read this I apologies as it is clearly not a film review but I hate members who bitch about peoples opinions.

Thankyou

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RE: Do Not Listen to Empire - 26/10/2008 7:38:53 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: mprendo

Wilbert, wind your neckin, get a life�and pull your cock out of Empires ass.� This is a members review site and ....we...well write reviews.� Excuse me that I really enjoyed the film and decided to share my opinion.� As for you calling me an idiot, I have to agree, I do idiotic things from time to time, most I cant help as I have down -syndrome but I just put them down to enjoying life.�

Your status shows "Forum Elder", then grow up and put a review on, dont bitch about people from the safety of your computer.

The only thing I have left to say is that your a shit house.

To all other people who read this I apologies as it is clearly not a film review but I hate members who bitch about peoples opinions.

Thankyou

Maybe you should acquaint yourself with the rules about posting on here. You didn't like my post but you'll notice that I made it without resorting to bad language.

If you can't express yourself without using the language you used in your post, then don't bother trying to express yourself at all.

Also, your sentence about bitching about people from the safety of my computer was funny. Although nowhere near as funny as your grammar.

You hate people bitching about other people's opinions online but weren't you bitching about Dan Jolin's opinion?

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RE: Do Not Listen to Empire - 26/10/2008 8:06:15 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: mprendo

Wilbert, wind your neckin, get a life and pull your cock out of Empires ass. This is a members review site and ....we...well write reviews. Excuse me that I really enjoyed the film and decided to share my opinion. As for you calling me an idiot, I have to agree, I do idiotic things from time to time, most I cant help as I have down -syndrome but I just put them down to enjoying life.

Your status shows "Forum Elder", then grow up and put a review on, dont bitch about people from the safety of your computer.

The only thing I have left to say is that your a shit house.

To all other people who read this I apologies as it is clearly not a film review but I hate members who bitch about peoples opinions.

Thankyou

Well you just took hypocriticism and made it your wife didn't you?

"Don't bitch about people" followed by "all I have left to say is your a shithouse"? As for your frankly bizarre explanation about idiocy. I think Wilbert calling you an idiot had nothing to do with any disability you suffer so it would be appreciated if you wouldn't go down that line and make his comments out to be something they're not.

Also, you bitched about Empire. This is an EMPIRE READERS FORUM. Go and post in AICN if you want to moan about the media.

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RE: Do Not Listen to Empire - 27/10/2008 10:10:27 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: mprendo

Wilbert, wind your neckin, get a life and pull your cock out of Empires ass. This is a members review site and ....we...well write reviews. Excuse me that I really enjoyed the film and decided to share my opinion. As for you calling me an idiot, I have to agree, I do idiotic things from time to time, most I cant help as I have down -syndrome but I just put them down to enjoying life.

Your status shows "Forum Elder", then grow up and put a review on, dont bitch about people from the safety of your computer.

The only thing I have left to say is that your a shit house.

To all other people who read this I apologies as it is clearly not a film review but I hate members who bitch about peoples opinions.

Thankyou

Un-necessary, un called for, rude in the extreme and not the nicest way to introduce yourself as a new member on the forum. Debate is always welcome and banter a prerequisite on any quality forum, but, heavens! you do seem to have got off on the wrong foot, haven't you?

And calling the Empire staff crap is just plain insulting.

Here, your punishment will be to write 200 lines saying " I will think before I post " in whatever colour crayon you have lying around.

Welcome, by the way..........

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RE: Agreed - 27/10/2008 10:22:37 AM

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I find it difficult to reconcile the suggestion from anyone that they aren't PR plants, but yet feel the need to join a site for the magazine they've claimed to read for ages just because of the review of a lame action thriller - that excises them more than any other review Empire has ever given? This movie is neither good nor important enough for a review to be 'catastrophically' wrong. Which is why the word 'plant' is the one that tends to come to the fore.

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RE: Agreed - 27/10/2008 10:25:19 AM

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.............yes?.........................* on the edge of her seat *

Go oooooooon................

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RE: Agreed - 27/10/2008 10:30:11 AM

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Stop it!

The thing Ok'd me unexpectedly when I'd started a sentence that I promptly forgot when I went in to edit!

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RE: Do Not Listen to Empire - 27/10/2008 12:44:27 PM

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quote:

hypocriticism

Well you just took hypocriticism and made it your wife didn't you?

"Don't bitch about people" followed by "all I have left to say is your a shithouse"? As for your frankly bizarre explanation about idiocy. I think Wilbert calling you an idiot had nothing to do with any disability you suffer so it would be appreciated if you wouldn't go down that line and make his comments out to be something they're not.

Also, you bitched about Empire. This is an EMPIRE READERS FORUM. Go and post in AICN if you want to moan about the media.

It should be hypocrisy. People seem to have a perplexing nack of adding 'ism' or 'ality' to words when they do not exist!

What's the general consensus on the film?

It's interesting to have Liam Neeson in this action role, the last such role of his I can remember is Darkman "Durant!!!!" (in which he was the protagonist).

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RE: Do Not Listen to Empire - 31/10/2008 12:42:05 AM

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I just came back from a screening of Taken. I loved it, I'd happily and unequivocally give the film four out of five stars. Sure it's not a perfect film, the first 20 minutes which is meant for 'character exposition' is a little flimsy and it seemed for her first few scenes Famke Janssen came across as feeling bored. However as soon as the scene shifts to Europe, you know there's going to be good things in store. I thought Liam Neeson pulled off his role brilliantly, the fight scenes were bare, brutal, visceral and uncompromising. I don't understand where this supposed xenophobia stems from, other than some critic mentioned it and then everyone's latched onto that idea. It would seem strange that one of the co-writers (Luc Besson) who's French, would make a veilied/implicit xenophobic attack on Europe. To me the location is superfluous, the idea is that these two girls were in a location they didn't know and clearly were careless with what they revealed. If this film had been set in New York, Toronto or Chicago, would it have made any difference? The sad thing is that sex trafficking does occur in Europe and there are many young girls, who don't have a Jason Bourne, Jack Bauer, James Bond or indeed a 'Bryan' to smash the antagonists and bring the girls to safety. Real life is of course harsher and less forgiving. Dan Jolin ought to conserve his meaningless pretensions for something more benign in future.

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RE: Taken - 6/11/2008 7:13:47 PM

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I dont know what all of you lot are talking about Taken is one of the best films of the year. Certainly the best pure action film of the year. Why are you lot hating on the film the plot doesn't really matter the action speaks for itself

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RE: Taken - 10/11/2008 1:32:49 PM

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*** MAJOR SPOILERS ***

Taken is a brutally enjoyable revenge fest and gets three stars from me. Liam Neeson handles the beating and killings very nicely and that side of things are excellently done. It begs the question why Neeson didn't do more action films during his career, maybe they weren't offered to him or he wasn't interested but either way being a big, hard looking bastard means he's perfectly suited to this kind of stuff.

What you see is what you get with this movie, it's not particularly complex - bloke gets his daughter kidnapped and then hits the trail with a mind to inflict serious punishment. That said there's a few silly bits (how he escapes capture so easily), and the fact he manages to leave France with no hassle despite leaving a trail of destruction, not least a great moment at the table of a corrupt copper which would leave you cancelling his invitation over for dinner (unless you hated your wife of course).

On a final note his daughter is really annoying - a kind of human baby deer full of beans and innocence. She almost ain't worth saving!

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Hate to say it..... - 19/11/2008 1:36:23 AM

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but jeez that's a wet dish-cloth of a review, and a fine example of why I no longer fork out my 4 bin-lid for the mag . Don't get me wrong, I'm a liberal kinda guy and I actively seek and appreciate hearing a view-point other than my own, but the only thing venomous here is Dan Jolin's 6th form standard rant. I'm fairly indifferent to the flick in question, I loved seeing Liam Neeson bust some heads, I dislike a great deal of the dialogue. So far,so meh. What I'm intrigued by is Mr Jolin's extreme reaction to the (admittedly cack-handed) depiction of gangsters from eastern Europe (surely not!) or the suggestion that rich Arabs might spend their moolah on Very Naughty Things. Would it be better if the villains were from another part of the world?

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TAKEN - great actioner done right. - 27/11/2008 10:59:40 AM

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that's okay EMPIRE. this will was not made for the 'beautiful people' so you slate it, just like you did with RAMBO 4. I already know that you won't like THE EXPENDABLES either.

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decent little fllick - 4/12/2008 4:36:56 PM

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Why did this get one star..It was a cracking little actioner. This is why I no longer by the mag..5 stars for Superman Returns which was a mediocre movie at best...but this gets one but had me and others ont the edge of our seats-no sir! You are wrong...pooh to you with knobs on!

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RE: decent little fllick - 15/12/2008 12:22:09 PM

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I saw this yeserday and really enjoyed it. Ok there were minor flaws, like Liam Neesons ability to get out of every sticky situation practically unscathed, but the great moments outweighed the flaws. I liked the way the killings of the baddies, were harsh, brutal and for the most part quick, as opposed to most action movies, where there are far too many punches, kicks, back slams agaisnt walls, more punches...etc etc and then the baddie always manges to get up. This seemed more real, no messing about, just about taking them down.
Liked the torture scene too, nails in legs and electricity...great combination

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RE: decent little fllick - 15/12/2008 1:00:46 PM

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I think because the subject matter makes you so angry it's really satisfying to see the bad guys get done over to the max - they deserve the brutality!

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Dan Jolin FUCK YOU! - 21/12/2008 9:09:42 PM

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You know nothing about films, empire should fire your ass!
If i ever hear you bad mouth a good film again, im gonna do what liam
neeson did in that film to you!
How can you say its a bad film? One star for christs sake!
Did you even watch the fucking movie???
It was a brutal beautiful piece off art! I will watch it again and again
5 FUCKING STARS *****

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Revenge, justice, realistic action escapism - 23/12/2008 12:34:43 AM

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Revenge, justice, realistic action and escapism, just what I like to be the main ingredients in my action films. So when I was speaking to a friend of mine (a film fanatic like me) I was shocked at his response after I recommended this film; 'Empire said it was rubbish so I haven’t bothered with it'...... So I read the review and because of it I have taken a solemn oath never to read an Empire review ever again, the reasons are summed up in my first sentence: Revenge, justice, realistic action and escapism, films are not real they are not supposed to be, if you want real watch Vinnie Jones toughest cops it probably more brutal but where is the excitement?
I firmly believe that this Empire reviewer should not be allowed to review a kids cartoon let alone a feature film. This film is supposed to be cheesy to start with and the father is supposed to be over obsessed and weird, he was a government agent totally detached from his family and how to live a normal life! this reviewer has missed the point of the film or been paid to slate it, luckily if you read further down the page just about everyone shares my opinion of this film. For instance if he knew anything about Albanian gangsters he would know that their portrayal in this film is a mild one, the crimes committed against foreigners in Albania are often so frequent and horrific many areas are no go areas for UK/USA tourists, Michael Palin had to have an SAS escort when he simply took a train through the county! So the premise that they may operate from a popular European city like Paris is not too far fetched at all. And as far as him taking out all the bad guys, I can tell you that I am a martial arts instructor and the fight scenes are great simple close quarter combat, as a friend of mine is a Paratrooper and another a former Marine now in CP (close protection) work, add all our skills and 25 years experience like Neeson’s character is portrayed to have and I reckon the body count could have at leas

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Revenge, justice, realistic action escapism - 23/12/2008 12:34:47 AM

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Revenge, justice, realistic action escapism continued..... - 23/12/2008 12:59:01 AM

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least outdone the last Rambo movie if it had wanted to.

I do not normally get involved with reviews, but hey someone’s got to stand up if they love great films.

Stick to IMDB.com quite simply the most accurate movie review source on the plant, bar none.

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Revenge, justice, realistic action escapism continued..... - 23/12/2008 12:59:03 AM

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EMPIRE IS WRONG - 21/1/2009 10:02:30 PM

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Empire as it often is, is very wrong on this film. Neeson is great busting heads and generally kicking ass in search of his daughter. If you liked him in batman or star wars youl love his work in this as a tall bringer of justice, laeving a trail of bodies and carnage across europe

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matmartinanchris sum it up - 21/1/2009 10:06:12 PM

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buy FUCKING TOTAL FILM instead

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Dan Jolin sees things that are not there! - 22/1/2009 1:02:39 AM

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Dan Jolin got his oh so 'intelligent' 'review' of Taken completely wrong. Seemingly more obsessed with painting a picture of xenophobia and racism on every line. Because of course Dan, there are no women trafficked by Albanians, and there are no Arabs that like to buy said trafficked women! Damn Luc Besson, he clearly should have made every antagonist white to appease the PC banner waving brigade that Dan Jolin is so clearly a paid up member of.

It was a decent enough action flick with a serious topic backstory.

Dan Jolin needs to grow up, and realise that bad people come in all shapes and sizes..... colours and creeds, your 'review' was a joke.

I only hope that Empire do the decent thing and rate it properly come the DVD review.

How in the HELL Dan Jolin or Empire think this is 1 star worthy in the same company as Disaster Movie is deluding only themselves.

Please do the decent thing and give it a proper DVD review, more than anything else, it would be crass and stubborn of you to stand by the original review.

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RE: Taken.....For a ride by the reviewer! - 22/1/2009 5:20:25 PM

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3/5 movie

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Pulse Pounding Action Movie. - 26/1/2009 4:00:31 PM

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I was a little worried that this movie would really disappoint me, I have seen many action films that have either been good or just plain bad. Didn't realise that I was gonna LOVE this movie! It has everything, a gripping plot and pulse pounding action that is high-core. Liam Neeson was brilliant in this, playing a retired cop out to get his daughter back from nasty people wanting to sell her for prostation. The kick-ass moves are razor sharp, the torture scene is harsh but wicked and the ending leaves you with a smile on your face. Brilliant pefomances, excellent action and a story that you're not going to forget forever. I really enjoyed this movie, probably gonna buy it when it comes out.

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