Taken

I just saw the other good movie for this year. "Taken" starring Liam Neeson is fucking great. No bullshit. There is really nothing you do not need. The plot is that Neeson is a ex-agent of some sort, retired, but his daughter gets kidnapped on a trip in Paris. The reason she gets kidnapped is because she's attractive. The kidnappers are part of an underground group that abducts girls and sells them into some kind sex slave market. They kidnap them, drug them up, get the addicted, and then force them into prostitution. They move them to the eastern Europe or northern Africa. This kind of trade REALLY does go on in that part of the world so it's a rather believable plot. Basically, what's good about it is that it's simple. Liam wants his daughter back and he's such a badass trying to get her back. The fighting is awesome and really believable...kind of like the fighting in the Bourne Identity movies. The action is consolidated too. Again, nothing you don't need. Nothing is drawn out. The poster is in French but the movie is in English. It's a Luc Besson movie so...there ya go.