Our vote goes to "Taken" which was more real and exciting. The plot was something like the "Hostel" and "Turistas" - Tourists being kidnapped in a foreign country (but of all places, why does it have to be Paris this time?). However, different from Hostel and Turistas, there were no torturing scenes showed as this film focuses on how the father saves his daughter, there was no details on the daughter's predicament during her kidnap. I had a thrilled time watching the actions and was most amazed by the dad who uses his skills and wits to gather clues that led him eventually to his daughter. He's a super human man!
"Knowing" has its suspense but the plot was unreal and slow at times. We got turned off at one point when the "Aliens" showed up... the feeling was exactly like back then when we watched "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"...
TAKENRating: NC16
Consumer advice: Disturbing content
Genre: Action, Thriller
Language: English, French Albanian and Arabic with English subtitles
Director: Pierre Morel
Cast: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Xander Berkeley
Runtime: 94mins
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Liam Neeson stars in this action-packed international thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. When his estranged daughter is kidnapped in Paris, a former spy (Neeson) sets out to find her at any cost. Relying on his special skills, he tracks down the ruthless gang that abducted her and launches a one-man war to bring them to justice and rescue his daughter.
KNOWINGRating: PG
Consumer advice: Some Intense Sequences & Disturbing Scenes
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi/Thriller
Language: English with no subtitles
Director: Alex Proyas
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne & Andrienne Pickering
Runtime: 122 min
In this thriller from director Alex Proyas ( DARK CITY ; I, ROBOT), a drawing in an unearthed time capsule from 50 years ago has predicted cataclysmic events since its burial. Nicolas Cage stars as a man who discovers the drawing and tries to figure out what is happening as the final date on the drawing approaches, and with it, comes the apocalypse.
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