pulling the feels…
pulling the feels…
FUN
38
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
41
how much it moved you
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Read from 57 comments (49 from Metacritic, 8 from TMDB reviews) — 19 of them described how it moves.
➖ steady — Holds one level all the way. Warm most of the way through. Very little of it ever resolves. Marked above the line: 1 that gave people chills.
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“The movie is pretty much action all the way.”
Dark Jedi · TMDB reviews ↗
“it starts hitting them right away. We're literally only minutes into the film before we find out that Neeson's lead character is divorced, and his wife has re-married to a decent, rich provider, but one who's bookish and could never take him in a fight, and that the present he got for his daughter is for an interest that she no longer has.”
Gimly · TMDB reviews ↗
“But once we get into the action proper, it's pretty great.”
Gimly · TMDB reviews ↗
“doesn’t waste time getting to the point. The plot is straightforward but gripping, setting up just enough character development before throwing you into a tense, fast-paced ride.”
RalphRahal · TMDB reviews ↗
“action that never slows down”
RalphRahal · TMDB reviews ↗
“keeping the pacing tight and the tension high”
RalphRahal · TMDB reviews ↗
Read 26 Aug 2026 · confidence 100% · scored on the same 0-100 scale as a community score · how this works
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It plays better than it reviews — the watch lands harder than the write-ups suggest.
“The beginning is a little slow, but after Neeson starts his hunt and does his best wrath-of-God impression, it doesn’t skip a beat.”
Patrick Parker, Premiere · 88
“Taken moves so fast and with such single-minded, vindictive energy, there's no time for moral ambivalence.”
Josh Rosenblatt, Austin Chronicle · 78
“There is no mythology, no irony, no real soul--just a Charles Bronson simplicity about the whole affair.”
Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune · 75
“There's a xenophobic element to Taken's premise, to be sure - the idea that travel, even to Western Europe, isn't safe for Americans, and that foreigners (Albanians, Arabs) are by nature shifty and sinister.”
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer · 75
“Taken is nonsense, but it's terrifically entertaining nonsense.”
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald · 75
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 24 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
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“The movie is pretty much action all the way.”
Dark Jediabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“it starts hitting them right away. We're literally only minutes into the film before we find out that Neeson's lead character is divorced, and his wife has re-married to a decent, rich provider, but one who's bookish and could never take him in a fight, and that the present he got for his daughter is for an interest that she no longer has.”
Gimlyabout 0–15% inread it ↗
“But once we get into the action proper, it's pretty great.”
Gimlyabout 15–100% inread it ↗
“doesn’t waste time getting to the point. The plot is straightforward but gripping, setting up just enough character development before throwing you into a tense, fast-paced ride.”
RalphRahalabout 0–15% inread it ↗
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