7.9 rating, really?

7.9 is low for this movie, it should be higher. Just watched it again for about my 10th time, great show. Completely entertaining. Love it.

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I have to agree. The movie is ridiculously overrated. It has all the worst aspects of American 80s action movies without any of their charms like insanely over-the-top action and violence or cheesiness. It's also far too cliché, silly and unrealistic to be a gritty 70s-style thriller.

Even the action I thought was rather pedestrian. Even the 'extended, harder cut' as it's called is almost totally bloodless with hardly any memorable action scenes. How many scenes do people actually remember other than the "particular set of skills" monologue?

It may have resonated with people due to the fear of their own children being kidnapped. Also Liam Neeson is in it.

I really enjoyed it. One of the best action films ever made :) I remember seeing it in the theater, and everyone applauding at the end, including myself (first time I've ever been in theater where that has happened). If that's not a sign of a great film, I don't know what is.









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The rating stands for how a film compares to other films of it's genre. For instance there are some classic films that many consider masterpieces with a 7.9 rating. That doesn't mean that people consider "Taken" as good a film as A Luis Bunuel or Ingmar Bergman classic. "Taken" however IS one of the best movies..of it's genre; which is the thriller/espionage/action genre. It really is very well-made, and the pacing is really wonderful as well. I can understand why it got a high rating. This isn't even my type of movie, but I was riveted to this story from beginning to end.

Fabio Testi is GOD

I'm not sure if spamming was used; I reckon the case was that the general cinema-going public just fell for Morel's lazy cash grab. The director of this movie was clearly only set on making this film to further their career. They probably worked out the stuff that most action fans wanted from a film of the genre, and built their movie around those conventions. And the vast majority of the public, being the predictable flock that they are, fell for the tosh. So, I would say that no conjuring tricks were used here; just crafty, sly crowd-pleasing direction methods.

I love a movie that shows in very graphic detail ugly stupid Muslim bastards and ugly Euro-trash/Euro-crap bastards having the crap kicked out of them. The world seems full of degenerate bastards and ugly worthless immoral expendable pieces of garbage that are better off dead -much like the bastard trash that are in the movie "Taken." I love seeing them get their LONG, LONG, LONG, OVERDUE 'come-uppance.' The city which I happen to live in in (Portland, OR) is full of almost nothing but anti-American liberal ugly stupid dark-skinned bastard degenerate tattooed, body-pierced, abortion-loving, marijuana-smoking homosexual pieces of garbage and ugly crappy white trailer trash. I would love to see this entire city destroyed or see everyone in this city die very slow and excruciatingly painful deaths and be able to break all bones in everyone's bodies and castrate them in the most painful way ever conceived...
There are so few 'REAL' enlightened people and Americans anywhere these days...

It's easily one of the best simple action movies out there to say the least.

in fact, i just re-watched it yesterday (on Nov 30th 2016 (my previous re-watch was June 2nd 2014) and it held steady)). it's within my Top 115 movies (i.e. the link in my signature below lists them all) simply because there is only 115 movies currently that i give a 7.5-8/10 or higher.

it's one of the best movies of 2008.

but with that said... i do agree it's 7.8/10 is a bit high for the average score (low 7's would be a bit better in my opinion) but then again it seems people on IMDb fling around 7/8/9/10 scores fairly often unlike myself as there is only 203 movies that managed to get a 7 or higher from me out of the 2,000+ total movies i have seen which is what i consider my favorite movies. i still enjoy movies i score a 6 but only mildly as counting all movies i scored in the 6 or higher range that comes out to about 575 movies out of the 2,000+ total movies i have seen. everything else is average/forgettable/thumbs down simply because the rest have no re-watch value and to me a movies true worth long term is whether it's a movie you want to re-watch from time to time as the years pass or not. if that's not obvious then ill state the obvious... i ultimately rate movies based on how much i enjoy watching them and the further they get away from that the lower the rating. once a movie drops below a 6/10 it's Thumbs Down status from me as it's got no re-watch appeal.

It's a ridiculously high rating for such a dumb, generic, self-serious movie that is watchable but not very good.