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Taken

November 2019

  • Illustration by David Foldvari.

    What Britain really needs now is a credible Liam Neeson figure

    Stewart Lee
    It’s crystal clear: the election is following Taken’s plot

July 2019

  • The Inbetweeners 2.

    Ranked
    Worst holidays in cinema – ranked!

    As Spider-Man: Far From Home and Midsommar bring the well-worn trip-gone-wrong back to the big screen, here are 20 of film’s most appalling vacations

February 2019

  • Steve Rose

    Is Liam Neeson cancelled? Of course not - he's played this character for years

    Steve Rose
    The actor has clearly examined his conscience since he went looking for revenge after a friend of his was raped years ago

September 2017

  • Acting powerhouse... Liam Neeson.

    Liam Neeson has retired from action films – we'll miss his particular set of skills

    The Taken actor has announced his departure from the genre after a decade of gleefully schlocky thrillers, but also one stone-cold classic

February 2017

  • Taken - Season 1<br>TAKEN -- "Ready" Episode 102 -- Pictured: Clive Standen as Bryan Mills -- (Photo by: Panagiotis Pantazidis/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

    It will find you. It may kill you. It's Taken – the TV show

    Move over Liam Neeson … the stone-cold revenge classic hits the small screen this week. Does it have the ‘particular skills’ to become a bone-crunching hit?

April 2015

  • Liam Neeson

    Film blog
    Why Liam Neeson's dadsploitation films shut out women

    Taken created a genre of action films starring older male protagonists. Why are they all men? Because in movies, women still aren’t allowed to take vengeance on behalf of others – they have to be victimised first

March 2015

  • Liam Neeson in Run All Night

    The film quiz
    Liam Neeson: match the threat to the movie - quiz

    As Liam Neeson's latest thriller Run All Night hits, we can be sure to expect ambitious stunts, a difficult to pin down accent and a series of carefully worded threats. But can you match these intimidating Neeson quotes to the movies they come from?

November 2014

  • Pierce Brosnan

    John Patterson on film
    The November Man and the rise of the geriaction movie

    Pierce Brosnan joins the long list of tough-talking action heroes – and heroines – who refuse to stop swinging in their 60s

September 2014

  • Liam Neeson 2014

    With Taken over, Liam Neeson cuddles up to Ted 2

    The actor has signed up for the sequel to Seth MacFarlane’s hit comedy Ted, but has said the Taken franchise is going to come to an end

July 2013

  • 'Taken' Film - 2008

    Film recap
    Taken recap: 'Would the world be a better place if Liam Neeson hadn't gone to all that trouble to save his daughter?'

    Former CIA agent goes through action hero motions to rescue spoiled girl from human traffickers, but delivers killer speech

February 2009

  • Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore in He's Just Not That Into You

    US audiences really into He's Just Not That Into You

    Female moviegoers turn out in force for the rom-com based on a self-help book, easily knocking last week's No 1, the Liam Neeson-starring Taken, off its perch

October 2008

  • Taken

    Off the Leith
    How Taken took hold of me

    William Leith

    Liam Neeson goes from caring, ponderous presence to ultra-warrior in Taken. William Leith enjoys the ride

September 2008

  • Film talk
    'Wow, this is a rollercoaster'

  • Taken

    The Guardian Film Show
    Film Weekly: Liam Neeson

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