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Some movies are famous for their dialogues that run a chill along your spine. But such movies are rare. Very rare. Lately, I saw Taken. It is a story of an ex-special agent's daughter being kidnapped in France, and he (Liam Neeson) trying to rescue her from the clutches of the east-European gang. The movie has a predictable storyline, but some sequences in it are worth watching. For eg., the following dialogue uttered by Neeson to his daughter's kidnapper over phone:

"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you."

Now *that* makes a movie worth watching!

The movie starts rather very promisingly, with a very different plot, brilliant acting, and fantastic music - but fails to impress in the later half, especially because of the acts done by the friends'.

Though it captivates the confusion of Indian youth properly, it fails to deliver the message. The band is shown to resort to violent means as an act of revenge, which, definitely is in-appropriate in today's context. The director tries to re-tract on this act by a clarification from the actors' towards the end, but who listens?

Since the medium is the message, and a movie delivers' a message very strongly, I sincerely hope that the Indian youth don't get the wrong message from the movie! Excellent acting, a different plot (in the first half), but overall a weak storyline. This could definitely have been done better!