A father tries to track down his kidnapped daughter... how original !
Any ideas how this Taken v3.0 would be any different? all suggestions welcome.
No. It's even too similar to Prisoners (2013).
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I'm sorry, but OP is retarded.
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shareYour post seems to imply that Taken started this plot trend. Man On Fire preceded Taken by 20 years (father figure tracks down daughter). This plot has been prevalent in movies for 90 years. It didn't just start when a Liam Neeson film became strangely popular.
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Have any of you actually seen the movie, or, are you just giving an uneducated comment?
shareMan on Fire? The 2004 movie with Denzel? Not exactly 20 years ago. And although this formular has been used alot it has had a resurgense with Taken. I dont think op was implying that that was the 1st movie to ever use the kidnapped daughter ploy
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Brush up on pop culture, my friend :) I love how when there's a good version of something, people forget the less-than-stellar original :) Scott Glenn headlined Man On Fire in 1987 (27 years ago) - both were based on the novel from 1980
shareEgoyan never seems to do anything very standard, I would be surprised if this is. I'm sure this will be fairly unique actually, but it has been bashed badly by the critics. Who knows? Taken was badly written crap in my view. 3.5/10
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I am a big Egoyan fan. Disappointingly, to some extent it does feel like a 2nd-rate rehash of the Taken-type movies. Although there is the Egoyanesque twist that the villain is also a computer wiz and "grief voyeur". It touches very briefly and not in a serious way on high-level pedophile networks (such as those revealed by the Dutroux affair in Belgium and many other less well-known cases throughout the world). Would have been more interesting and edgy if he had followed that up, IMO (though, of course, that sort of thing can be seriously dangerous). Some of the acting by the two leads is a bit shaky and the wife is annoying in the way she continually irrationally blames her husband for the abduction.
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