By Matt Glasby
Retired action man Liam Neeson takes on the entire Parisian underground in search of his kidnapped daughter in this Luc Besson-penned fisticuff fest
In the gaudy gameshow whirl of Hollywood, name actors routinely win big, often ker-chinging the kind of cash that would make Richard B
ranson blush. While much has been made of this inequity, it's worth remembering that there's sound business acumen at work, even if the idea of making the Brads and the Toms richer than God while other people starve might be a wee bit galling.
There's no telling what sort of sum Liam Neeson commanded for Taken, although it's safe to assume it's a fair bit more than the average working Joe but he's worth every single penny. To all intents and purposes, Neeson is this movie; its brain, its pulse; its anima. Remove him from the equation and we're left with little more than a Van Damme vehicle, buffed up Jason Bourne-style for the new millennium. Wind him up and watch him go, however, and there's conviction and a core of steely sadness beneath all the noise and nonsense.
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Retired action man Liam Neeson takes on the entire Parisian underground in search of his kidnapped daughter in this Luc Besson-penned fisticuff fest
In the gaudy gameshow whirl of Hollywood, name actors routinely win big, often ker-chinging the kind of cash that would make Richard B
ranson blush. While much has been made of this inequity, it's worth remembering that there's sound business acumen at work, even if the idea of making the Brads and the Toms richer than God while other people starve might be a wee bit galling.There's no telling what sort of sum Liam Neeson commanded for Taken, although it's safe to assume it's a fair bit more than the average working Joe but he's worth every single penny. To all intents and purposes, Neeson is this movie; its brain, its pulse; its anima. Remove him from the equation and we're left with little more than a Van Damme vehicle, buffed up Jason Bourne-style for the new millennium. Wind him up and watch him go, however, and there's conviction and a core of steely sadness beneath all the noise and nonsense.
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