# A take on Taken (spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 13, 2009, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-take-on-taken-spoilers/499626 "2009-06-13T01:26:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-take-on-taken-spoilers/499626/21 "2009-07-06T18:13:43Z")
> [@lolagranola](#): > > I found myself wondering if he was releasing any of the other girls he kept finding while he was looking for his daughter. Aren’t those all loved ones of someone else’s? Or does he care solely about his own daughter, and everyone else can rot in prostitution and drug addiction? What happened to the girl he detoxed in the hotel room? Did he just leave her there? Probably. I was more concerned that his daughter didn’t seem to give a shit that her friend was dead. Did they ever even tell the girl’s parents? What if they had wanted to get the police involved? But overall a decent brainless action movie. The dialogue in the first 30 minutes was painfully bad, but I loves me some revenge. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-take-on-taken-spoilers/499626/22 "2009-07-06T19:35:11Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > One thing that really struck me was that Dad’s friends were total dicks. > > Oh, sure, they’ll drink red wine and eat red meat with him… but when his daughter gets kidnapped, they can’t be arsed to help out with anything other than a bit of logistical support? I’d like to think that if I’ve got a posse of hard-as-nails ex-military security guys, and my daughter gets kidnapped, they’d be flying over to Europe with me to show those slavers how we do things downtown. I took this as a better aspect of the movie. These guys were all retired government employees, probably on fixed incomes. They were not rich at all - hence taking side jobs as security guards, buying daughter Mr. Microphone while step dad gets her a horse, etc. They were with him in spirit but couldn’t really afford to go jetting around Europe. If fact, Liam probably has to go back to work now since that little rescue mission for his baby probably ate up his savings. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-take-on-taken-spoilers/499626/23 "2009-07-06T19:40:11Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > I took this as a better aspect of the movie. These guys were all retired government employees, probably on fixed incomes. They were not rich at all - hence taking side jobs as security guards, buying daughter Mr. Microphone while step dad gets her a horse, etc. They were with him in spirit but couldn’t really afford to go jetting around Europe. If fact, Liam probably has to go back to work now since that little rescue mission for his baby probably ate up his savings. On the plus side, he never needs to buy her a birthday gift ever again, and anything Stepdad gets her pales in comparison to a Get Out Of White Slavery Free Card. “Oh, another horsey? That’s so cute. Remember when I killed 20 guys on that houseboat and freed you just before that fat fuck was about to take your virginity, honey?” ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-take-on-taken-spoilers/499626/24 "2009-07-06T21:13:57Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > If fact, Liam probably has to go back to work now since that little rescue mission for his baby probably ate up his savings. I doubt that one emergency flight to Europe really killed his savings. I’m sure he’d have doctored up a death certificate or phony dying relative to ensure that he got on the flight in the first place, so he’s probably only out a grand for the flight. And he didn’t pay for much else in the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Lochdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@Lochdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lochdale)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-take-on-taken-spoilers/499626/25 "2009-07-06T21:51:24Z")
> [@iamthewalrus\_3](#): > > I doubt that one emergency flight to Europe really killed his savings. I’m sure he’d have doctored up a death certificate or phony dying relative to ensure that he got on the flight in the first place, so he’s probably only out a grand for the flight. And he didn’t pay for much else in the movie. Didn’t he fly in a private jet provided by his ex-wife’s new husband? And really, waaaaayyy too much thought put into a pedestrian, if pretty, movie. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-take-on-taken-spoilers/499626/26 "2009-07-06T21:56:25Z")
> [@Lochdale](#): > > Didn’t he fly in a private jet provided by his ex-wife’s new husband? Yup. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2009, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-take-on-taken-spoilers/499626/27 "2009-07-10T23:46:24Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > I would have read the OP except it had a longer runtime than the movie. And yet I feel like the time I spent reading this was higher quality time than I spent watching the movie. Agree fully with Scylla, by the way. I didn’t realize this film could stand up to any logical analysis, but it does… Once you posit that a)Dad’s an Über-Badass; b)Dad has Badass Resources; c)Über-Badasses have that ÜberHealingFactor; and c)Bad guys can’t aim. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-take-on-taken-spoilers/499626.md?page=1)