![]() ![]() (Seems like a waste of a career arc to me, but guess who’s the millionaire?) The apex of the star’s work here is when he manages not to betray a giggle when directed to whisper into the phone to the perpetually edge-of-panicked Maggie Grace, ” Your mother and I are going to be taken. And this he does: He’s sturdy, solid, efficient, opaque, and wears a black leather jacket well. ![]() In these films, by sheer dint of will, strategic career planning, and physical training sessions suited to his now 60-year-old chassis, Neeson sets himself the goal of becoming a Harrison Ford-like action hero. Anyone who thinks any of the above constitutes a spoiler is not the audience for the phenomenon of the Taken oeuvre, a pair of icy-eyed movies laid over a gooey core of aspirational family bonding.
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