Film review: TAKEN 3, from Built For Speed

Before it descended into torture porn and the mass slaughter of appallingly stereotyped swarthy Eastern Europeans, the first Taken film was a tense and exciting action/drama with convincingly visceral fight scenes, a darkly menacing Paris setting and a memorable lead performance from Liam Neeson who, as former CIA spook Brian Mills, beat up half of Europe to recover his kidnapped daughter

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Film review: TAKEN 2 from Built For Speed

The original Taken stoked the fires of western paranoia toward Middle Eastern people with its depiction of a pretty white American girl being abducted into sex slavery by swarthy fiends.  The film then one-upped all those morally dubious revenge films from Dirty Harry to I Spit on Your Grave by having the girl’s retired CIA assassin father (Liam Neeson) go

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