zachmosley

I finished watching Taken (2008) on Disney+ tonight and it was an awesome action film with Liam Neeson. The film is about an ex-CIA officer named Bryan Mills, who sets about tracking down his daughter Kim and her best friend after they are kidnapped by Albanian bad guys during a vacation in Paris. Since this is a French film from EuropaCorp, this was quite a very popular film when it came out in France, it was such a big film back when it came out in 2008.

This film has pretty good acting, great pacing, neat direction by Pierre Morel, fantastic action sequences and a story that is executed very well. The scene where Marko gets tortured kinda reminds me of the torture scene from Casino Royale. I think my favourite character is Kim (Bryan's daughter who is played by Maggie Grace) because she's very pretty to look at. There is a very memorable line that will never, ever get old, which is: "If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you. I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you."

Although the only flaws I have with this film is that not a lot of side characters get that much screen time. So overall, this movie gets a 9/10.

This is actually the first Indian movie I've watched.

I finished the first Brahmastra movie on Disney+ and I thought it was a good Indian movie from 2022. Decent acting, fine pacing, and very good action sequences in the movie. It's very long at 168 minutes but I didn't get too bored watching it. This movie will serve as the first installment of a planned trilogy, which is itself planned to be part of a cinematic universe titled Astraverse (which is a bit like the MCU). And also, this is the first movie to have the Star Studios logo at the beginning.

The movie does have a few flaws but I still enjoyed it and I honestly wish it got a home media release. 7/10.