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Capone spends 11 minutes with Liam Neeson and is quite TAKEN with him!!!
Hey everyone. Capone in Chicago here.
It's rare when I will interview someone about a film that the studio has yet to show me. So rare, in fact, that I can think of maybe two other times I've done it in my 10-plus years with AICN, excluding Comic-Con, that I've done it. That being said, the studio releasing the movie TAKEN in America (that would be Fox, for those of you keeping score) are actually showing critics this film in time for review, so they aren't hiding the movie from me or anyone else (as of this writing, I've already seen it, just not in time for this interview). In fact, they couldn't if they wanted to. During the past year, the Luc Besson-written and -produced TAKEN has been opening country by country across the world and is finally landing on U.S. shores this weekend.
But my rule about interviewing someone whose new film I haven't seen yet is simple: I'll ask one or two questions about the new film and then ask whatever the hell I want. When I interviewed Kal Penn a few years back for VAN WILDER 2, we spent most of our time talking about THE NAMESAKE, a film both he and I cared about a whole lot more. While talking to Antoine Fuqua while he was still in the finals stages of finishing up SHOOTER, we ended up going film by film through his career, and he was exceptionally open about conflicts he'd had with various studios trying to get his films completed. Sometimes saying yes to an interview you'd be inclined to blow off gets you the interview you actually want.
Still, the interview I want to do with Liam Neeson one day will probably be a bit longer than 11 minutes, but I took the short time I had to talk to focus less on TAKEN specifically and more on what it's like to work in a Besson production. Then I spent the rest of the interview talking about some really fascinating upcoming projects he's got coming up, including the ever-elusive LINCOLN with Steven Spielberg, a just-announced film with director Atom Egoyan, and voice work he did recently for the most anticipated animated film of 2009, at least in my book. Perhaps a more substantial conversation between the two of us may happen one day, but I think I hit up the man up for some pretty tasty bits of information. Enjoy these 11 minutes with Liam Neeson…
Liam Neeson: Hello.
Capone: Hello, Liam. How are you?
LN: Very good, thanks.
Capone: Obviously, I have not seen the film [TAKEN] yet…
LN: Oh, you haven’t?
Capone: …but, I feel like I’ve seen pieces of it for about a year now, because the trailer has been bouncing around, at least in this country, for the last year. And, I know that the film has opened sort of piecemeal throughout the rest of the world.
LN: I know. It’s the most peculiar release pattern.
Capone: I’m not going to bore you with questions about release strategies, but…I feel like I kind of get the gist of it. It’s a kidnapping scenario with your character's daughter, and your character seems, perhaps, uniquely qualified to handle the situation, more than the kidnappers realize?
LN: Yes.
Capone: Can you sort of fill me in on a little more detail?
LN: Well, he’s a father, and he’s, perhaps, a bit too overprotective of his 17-year-old daughter. And, you find out that he’s walked away from a job. He’s kind of a covert government operative, I suppose. He wants to be closer to his kids--he's a divorced father--because in her formative years, he wasn’t there. He was behind enemy lines somewhere, doing this covert stuff. And, so the kid plans with their mom that she wants to go over to Europe for a bit of freedom with her girlfriend, and I’m totally against it, in a very paranoid way. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I give her permission to go over, and she promptly gets kidnapped. And, she’s just left the airport in Paris, and I subsequently find out I’ve got four days to find her. So, in that four days, you discover my character does have this set of skills he employs.
Capone: I am familiar with DISTRICT 13, [director] Pierre Morel’s last film. I love that film. And pretty much anything [writer/producer] Luc Besson gets his hands on, I want to see.
LN: Me, too, actually.
Capone: His productions have a signature high-energy, controlled-chaos quality to them. What is different about working with that group on a film, as opposed to some of the other people you’ve worked with?
LN: Their tastes and their level of working. And, of course, they’re committed to an extraordinary degree, and also, their youth. I mean, Luc has these young acolytes that come up through the ranks, and he gives them films to do. And, Pierre is certainly one of those. He is also a highly trained D.P. and also a camera operator. So, it was first time I was working with a director who hand held every shot, every scene, and was also my director. It was a very, very unique experience, being with this French crew that had a lot of girls working on it, too, which was terrific. I loved that energy, that it’s not just a male bastion, you know. Just the level of working, and the pace was pretty extraordinary.
Capone: Were there any sort of special fight-training preparations?
LN: Oh, God! I mean, I keep fairly fit as a rule, but I certainly had to up the ante with this one. I spent about three, four weeks with my fight choreographer, Olivier Schneider is his name. He’s a Parisian. And, I learned these basic techniques for some of these martial arts skills. I think we have seven fights in the whole film. There was actually learning the choreography and, then, rehearsing it and re-rehearsing it until it became sort of second nature, you know. So, it was pretty intense. And, we would do that in the mornings, or sometimes in the evenings when we wrapped, and certainly weekends. So, I slept very well.
Capone: But, you’ve been through this sort of training before, though, even in fairly recent years, for some of the things that you’ve done.
LN: I’ve done it, yeah, certainly for BATMAN BEGINS and STAR WARS, but this is really sort of hand-to-hand combat stuff, you know. And, there’s some gun activity to driving cars at incredibly fast pace, which I always wanted to do. [laughs]
Capone: Right, right. I think people don’t realize that you have a fairly well-balanced body of work between the more high-drama and action-oriented work throughout your career.
LN: Well, I try to sort of mix it up. I just have a fear of being pigeonholed too much. And, for this one, I wouldn’t be obvious casting for this, but it was sent to me, and I met with Luc. And, he liked me, and I’d always liked him. And, it was push came to shove, and then it was, like, Okay, do you want to do this? And, I said, “I’ll do it under one condition…that I do all my own fights.” And, he says, “Well, I insist on that.” “Well, great, we’re on the same page.” But, obviously, there are a couple of extreme stunts that my wonderful stunt double, Mark Vanselow his name is, he did those. But, I’m very proud of the fact that I did all of the fights myself.
Capone: That’s impressive. I’m sure that a question you’ve been getting a lot, at least today is about LINCOLN, and where you are with that. But, before I ask you that, I saw that you do a voice in the new [Hayao] Miyazaki film [PONYO ON THE CLIFF] as well.
LN: Yes, that’s right. We finished that just before Christmas, actually.
Capone: And so, that means that you’ve seen it. My envy knows no bounds.
LN: No, I haven’t seen it…No, I beg pardon. I’m sorry, I did see the Japanese version, yes, yes. I’m so sorry.
Capone: At least among Westerners, that's a unique thing to have seen already. You’ve actually seen this film.
LN: I know. It’s a strange, beautiful, kind of weird fairy tale as only he can do, you know?
Capone: Of course. I own every one of his films, so I’m envious that I’m speaking to someone who has actually seen the new one who speaks English.
LN: Well, I think you’re in for a treat, you know. Do you know when it’s coming out? Have you heard?
Capone: I thought I'd heard something about his summer. I don't know if that's official. So, yeah, from “The Simpsons” to Miyazaki, that’s quite a leap in a couple of years for you.
LN: [laughs] And I’ve done a couple of CHRONICLES OF NARNIAs to put in there as well.
Capone: Yeah, that’s true, that’s true. So, LINCOLN. Where are we with LINCOLN?
LN: It’s quote–unquote from Steven [Spielberg] last night [at the Golden Globe Awards]…Apparently, when he was asked, he said, “It’s in the works.”
Capone: In the works, okay. But, he still hasn’t even said whether it’s his next film, or not?
LN: No. I think it’s just in the works. He’ll do it sometime.
Capone: I remember reading maybe two years ago that you were doing an intense amount of research on Lincoln. Is that pretty common for you, once you find out you’re attached to something. You just sort of jump into it, whether it’s the next thing or not?
LN: Well, you can imagine with a figure like that, there’s any amount of research and reading to do, you know. I mean, at the moment, there are over 2,000 books written on Abraham Lincoln. And, this being the bicentennial [of his birth] year, one comes out every month, it seems, you know. So, that’s a continual process. And, it’s always on my bedside table, something about Abraham Lincoln.
Capone: I also saw your name attached to a remake of LE CIRCLE ROUGE, but I think that's old news.Is that accurate?
LN: You know, that’s been around for some time. It kind of all fell apart just over a year ago. I don’t think they managed to get the script right, there were budgetary reasons, but I’m not attached to it. I don’t think anybody is.
Capone: Okay. And film I know you are attached to, because it was just announced the other day, is the new Atom Egoyan film CHLOE.
LN: Yes, that’s for February. Julianne Moore, Amanda Seyfried, myself, and we start shooting in Toronto. I believe on the 23rd of February, we start.
Capone: Who is your character in that?
LN: Julianne and I are married. I am a professor of music, and Julianne is a well-to-do gynecologist. So, we’re two working, married professionals. And, there’s a certain strain on the marriage, I’ll put it that way. And, then, Amanda enters into the fray, as a mysterious sort of creature. But, it’s very much Atom Egoyan territory, you know.
Capone: I’m a huge fan of his, yeah, for sure.
LN: Yeah, me too. Yeah, he does…he gives certain subject matters a different, slight slant.
Capone: Is there a lot of chronology dancing in this one, too, or is it straightforward?
LN: No, no. Not this time out.
Capone: Well, I’ve been promised that they’ll show me TAKEN any day now, so I’m looking forward to seeing it.
LN: Great.
Capone: And, I appreciate talking to you, thanks.
LN: Thank you. Take care.
-- Capone
capone@aintitcoolmail.com
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on The Daily Show. I know Jon Stewart is short, but he is a giant of a man.
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Everytime I see that trailer all I think is "Don't fuck with Ra's".
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It was released middle of last year, and was on DVD before thanksgiving?
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Check it out, looks awesome! Banlieue 13 - Ultimatum comes out in two weeks in France!
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...it kicks ass. In some ways it's like The Transporter, in that it's got a unique feel to it and excellently choreographed fight scenes, but it's very different from that film as well.
But Neeson is totally badass in it, really menacing, he looks the part and you never think think it's far-fetched when he takes down a room full of guys. Neeson is especially good in that bit everyone has seen in the trailer where he's warning the kidnapper over the phone that he's coming to get him. -
it's not very good. Liam Neeson is badass but the film is pretty disappointing.
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that I will watch every time without fail are any kind of end of the world Apocolyptic themed movie (Armageddon, Meteor, The Stand, etc) and any kind of "guy who just wants to be left alone turns out to be a badass, goes nuts and kicks ass movies" (Die Hard, Total Recall, The Bourne Identity, The Unforgiven).
As this movie falls squarely into the latter category, I'll definately watch it when it rolls out onto DVD. -
One of the few actors today who has such magnetism and quiet dignity. Neeson is top drawer in anything he does, even the movies that aren't all that good (and he doesn't do too much crap either). One of the most underrated actors in the world. And I'm shocked at how unbelievably quick and lethal he looks in the trailers for Taken. Not that he doesn't have the physicality, but he's just to damn big that such speed and ferocity is kind of unexpected. Can't wait to see this movie. Remember that little gem he did with Sandra Bullock? Gun Shy? A really funny movie and Neeson and Oliver Platt have some hysterical scenes together. Plus, he's Darkman, so there's that.
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but if you dont, i will find you and I will kill you!! dont fuck with Liam neeson. The movie script was written by racists. and xenphobes.
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country by country. Having seen the Trailer, and if I recall a review here ages ago, I thought it was just released, and flopped which would have been surprising. I definitely need to see this now. The academy does not like real men anymore. They didn't touch Clint for nominations, but gave them up the ass (pun intended) for Milk. This will help ease the pain.
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the rev Ian Richard Kyle paisley. Both are ballamena-hey! There has been talks of a biopic for years.
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algerians are scumbags. thanks a bunch luc besson. Luc besson hates the french.
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were terrble. action scene were good all the reviewers but the script was just dire, racist and incredibly xenophobic all the europeans are made out to be scumbags. Especially the french and the algerians, the movie was written by luc besson or at least produced by him.
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cannot to american accent. he just cant. I dont know why he tries.
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I know what you're implying, but you know that Neeson is Irish, right?
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Sometimes AICN forgets what it is. I don't come here to read a Liam Neeson and talk about the Lincoln books on his nightstand or the boring, softball question of how much he trained for his last movie. I want real movie-geek questions on "Darkman," "The Phantom Menace," "The Dead Pool" and "Batman." I want his thoughts on Jar Jar, on Qui-Gonn and Han Solo being in the same flick ("K-19: The Widowmaker") and did they ever talk "Star Wars" shop; on how cheapie they went with the "Darkman" sequels. Ugh.
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Predictable, but awesome.
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And it was one of my favourite films of 2008 - not best mind you, but one of my favourite. It certainly fits the stereotypical "nitty, gritty thrill ride" type statement. Anyways, HIGHLY recommended - see it and support good inventive action movies!
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because we were missing Neeson. Speaking of Star Wars, he's also worked with Star Trek actors, although both were relative unknowns at the time when he and Patrick Stewart were both in Excalibur. Blink and you miss Neeson. Stewart had a slightly larger role as Guenivere's (sp?) father who is at first the only sole supporter of Arthur. Look at all the people Neeson worked with before he became famous: Clint in the previously mentioned Dead Pool. He worked with Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins in The Bounty. It's not like today where some young kid makes a movie based on a popular teen book, and all of a sudden is a superstar. They need to make more movies with men, and not boys in the lead.
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I highly suggest people seek this one out next weekend when it opens.
Like a commando for the modern age.
Its a whole movie of Liam Neeson being a badass and killing people, full of Bourne style brutal fights(only cooler), but shot with a steady cam so you can tell what's going on. The body count in this has gotta be somewhere in the 40-50 range. Very highly recommended -
How could you not have seen it. ITS FUCKING BAD ASS. In a nut shell, Imagine if Jason Bourne never lossed his memory. Imagine then that he got older and had a daughter. Imagine then that Someone kidnapped his daughter. That is Taken. Its gritty. And Liam's character Mills don't fuck around. He'll shot men, women, whoever it takes to get his daughter back. Badass flick. One of the best I've seen last year.
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you read the empire review too, huh?
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The repeated use of the word badass in this particular Talkback makes me think that this film is probably not particularly good.
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I get tired of people who say "Everyone likes it. It must be bad". You ever think that maybe the masses could be right for a change? Or is that skeptical castle a little easy to live in than the village of chances and exploration. Its an action thriller of the highest order.
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I was referring specifically to the word 'badass', which, no matter how many times I hear it referring to positive film making, simply strikes me as something that a young child would use to describe the new Blink 182 album...
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He's the shit.
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Jan 26, 2009 11:09:27 AM CST
Great action, Neeson's awesome...the movie's mediocre...
by fuckmichaelbay
...bad dialogue, and Maggie Grace is terrible.
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It's nice to see him not playing his usual "wise but gruff mentor" role yet again (Phantom Menace, Batman Begins, ect.). "Yeeeeeesssss, I know you did...BUT LET'S PRETEND THAT YOU DIDN'T!"
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Jan 26, 2009 11:14:55 AM CST
This movie destroyed - Ra's Al Ghul meets Jason Bourne
by most excellent ninja
Jason Bourne hurts people, this dude BREAKS people. Fucking brutal movie withe shakey cam done perfectly, effectively, the impact was there.
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Jan 26, 2009 11:15:44 AM CST
movie = what happens when you kidnap Ra's Al Ghul's daughter
by most excellent ninja
you get destroyed.
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well the character is a badass, complete brutal Ra' Al ghul ruthless, yeah it is badass. How badass? breaking bones like nothing.
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not handheld, but in terms of that quickcut, shakey style that greengrass was going for, but better, because you can see everything and that quick punch in the face impact is still there.
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You know what, I liked it. It devolved into Besson-esque silliness at the end, but that is also its high-point. The last 30 minutes of the film kick ass hard. Makes me wonder why Neeson hasn't taken more action flicks. Anyhow, a flawed, but entertaining and totally unrealistic but exciting movie.
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That Irish West Virginian moonshine runner in "Next of Kin."
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...I always say...every movie could use more Liam Neeson. He elevates everything he is in. Love that guy and been chomping at the bit to see Taken for like a year now!
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Favorite scene in the movie is when he empties a clip in the rich guys face. No compunction. No hesitation. You die. You die now. You die painfully. AT YOUR OWN FUCKING PARTY TOO BITCH.
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Would much rather see that than Tintin.
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the movie really sucks. I love the guy, and he's good in it, but he can't keep this turkey from stankin'. It's seriously just a Steven Segal script, with Liam in the Segal role.
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and it is pretty badass! All I kept thinking was, 'Qui-Gonn is coming for you bastards, and he doesn't need a light saber to kick your ass!'
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And if they ever do another Bourne film, Liam Neeson has to fight Matt Damon. And kick his ass.
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Not because he's Irish, but because he'd turn around, put JWB in an arm bar, and instead him leaping to the stage, he'd get his ass thrown down.
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I'm also "a well-to-do gynecologist".
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.. and so is Empire these days. It has been for quite a few years. If it doesn't star Kate Winslet they hate it, fuck 'em.
Also, the bad guys in Taken aren't Algerian, they're Albanian, open yer fuckin' ears. Taken's a great film, it's a typical Besson production, and anyone expecting any depth whatsoever is deluding themselves. It's just entertainment. If the bad guys in a US film are American, is it an unpatriotic film? Someone has to be the villain, so please don't act like there aren't scumbags like this in every country, in this case thay happen to be Albanian. If you actually read a bit about European criminal gangs, you'd see that this isn't just made up for a film, people really are sold into slavery, even in this apparently "civilised" day and age. -
for taken they were unanimous. good action movie. script looked it had been written by two pissed guys who seriously hated the EU. oh and guess which band Neesons daughter goes to see in paris. U2. and isnt maggie grace a little old to playing a teen?
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Jan 26, 2009 12:36:55 PM CST
Taken...not to be confused with the button mashing delight known
by outlaw
Neeson as Eddie Gordo...
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What was with the release date delay?? Liam Neeson as a high tech Charles Bronson.
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who call this movie racist and xenophobic,they should watch the news more frequently.
They might learn a few things on what is happening in the rest of the world,apart from that a black man is the new USA President.
Sex slavery does exist, albanian mafia is a reality,just like is the russian,the italian, etc,yes the movies potrayal of how the slavery ring works is realistic and yes arab seikhs,do buy sex slaves.
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was voiced by Liam Neeson.
Ron Perlman was the narrator,and Malcolm McDowell was the president.
They were all of them great in this mediocre sequel of the Fallout franchise. -
Having seen both "Taken" and Seagal's latest, the vampire movie "Against the Dark", I'd have to say Neeson has the upper action hand at the moment. "Taken" was not big on reality, but the action plentiful over the top fun. I found it quite enjoyable. Seagal's new film is more about flashes of him giving out little nuggests of sagacity and a few sequences of sword-waving or shooting. His character actually sends another person to do most of the big fight scenes. There is a definite difference here.
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On www.mymavra.com Anyone who is familiar with Xiphos or Mr. Zeddemore on this site can also find writings by them over there.
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as far as I know the Albanian mafia trading in sex slavery is a real thing, the stuff they do in this film is real, it is very real. What is not real is a badass having enough balls to take them down. that is fantasy. A fantasy i'm sure many wish was true(me included). But don't say it's just an entertaining flick or whatever, or else it'd be Neeson against anything but they chose Sex Slave Trading which is one of the most disgusting things humans have involved themselves in.
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I'm half-Irish myself on my Dad's side. I love this joke. Q: What's the difference between a Irish wedding, and an Irish funeral? A: One less drunk.
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I think he's great. Not much more to say to that.
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"Taken" is an delightful '70s throwback that is not meant to be, well, taken seriously. It is Liam Neeson killing motherfuckers all across Paris and loving it. And, unlike "Man on Fire", he does all this in 90 minutes.
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Jan 26, 2009 1:57:01 PM CST
Liam Neeson has been in two of the top 20 movie sword fights
by catothecensor
Liam Neeson vs. Tim Roth in Rob Roy, probably in the top 5.
Neeson and McGregor vs. Ray Park in TPM, at least to 15. -
great movie.
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I loved the idea of Liam in this, and his famous ultimatum to the guys that snatch his daughter gave me shivers of anticipation but this is really a fairly pedestrian actioner.
Liam is definitely more believable than say, Dennis (Snake Doctor) Haysbert as a front line special ops guy in the Unit but there are too many skilled badasses in this for someone of his character's age to be believable. If there had been some action and some wily old fox tricks... this would have been much cooler. Too bad. Still worth a watch though. -
I'll wait for the DVD in 2 months.
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I watched Seven Pounds, Benjamin Button, the Wrestler and this over the course of a few days and Taken and the Wrestler were the only ones worth telling people about...
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..and I could see how one of those bastards would and could do this to them scum.
Their way of getting information in a hurry is to stick a knife in your calf and twist till you talk, he said it worked everytime. I know he's not SAS in the movie, but still. -
Capone did you wet your pants? His voice is awesome.
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Both Liam Neeson and Brendon Gleeson are awesome actors.
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no one has made a comment suggestion so other than me.
So it's true: the majority that said they would boycott Fox films the past few weeks because of the Watchmen lawsuit were lying and are a bunch of PUSSIES!!! This is why modern attempts at protesting don't work: WHINNY BITCHES WITH NO BALLS!!! The means of non-violent protests are in the palm of your hands yet you all no courage to use it.
The internet community makes me sadder everyday. -
An average actioner. Dumb cliched plot (pipe escape, obvious mobile relay), crap acting (Maggie Grace behaves like a 9 year old, Famke wasted role) dumb action scenes (driving through a portacabin, or the wrong way up a one-way street without looking!) I could go on... I guess the masses are easily pleased as this has hit 8/10 on imdb (shakes head).
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checkmate.
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Was an awesome Jedi, Qui-Gon Jinn is one of my favorite SW characters, it hurt when Darth Maul wasted him. Loved him as Darkman, love that movie. Next Of Kin, he was cool in that. In fact he is damn good in just about everything he does.
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Gives you an idea of the quality of the film itself. Love the fucking up of Albanians though. It's interesting that the film has a lot of lines concerning French pride and how the Albanian hugs abuse the social systems and how they are all trash - but it's all said by an "American" so everyone that's bitching just thinks it's the old xenophobic American (which is basically an oxymoron if from an Old World perspective). Sly that French bastard is.
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Very well done.
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That's THUGS not HUGS. Tragic. - and by the way all my posts are to be read in the voice of Jeremy Clarkson. Why? Because I said so and you can't not do it now anyway, so why stop?
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Hey all, I saw this when it was showing in London back in November. Theres no question that some of the action sequences are good and the film does raise the issue of human trafficing/sex slavery well BUT I think the script was a litte poor. The biggest problem being that at the begining your told Neeson is ex CIA and if anything ever happends to his daugther he will kick there ass (or at least to this effect) then she goes off and guess what somthin happends and he chases them and kicks there ass. So all through it you know the ending and I guess I found that a little boring. Now I know you could say yeah but take 007 we always know the ending to all those movies i.e, bond wins preety much all the time. True however, I expect that outcome from a Bond movie where as with this I expect somthin a little bit for than the obvious and predictable. Or am I asking for to much? Maybe. My advice see it on DVD!
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If I was the kidnapper I probably would have just left the girls there after the phone conversation. Liam is the definition of badass in this role. The quiet professional set loose from his restraints to raise hell. By the way Aloy Dennis Haysbert is totally believable as Snake Doc on The Unit. Just watch the ep. when his daughter was taken hostage in Iraq. He was ready to blow up a mosque and himself to get her back. Show after show he proves how good of an actor he is.
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Nothing spectacular or groundbreaking, but just a good straightforward tense thriller. Wish there were more movie like it quite frankly. No huge effects, crazy plot twists, just a decent script, a good actor, and great action.
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Did Capone ask him that question? I can see a crazy plot where Ra's comes back from the dead (due to the Lazarus Pit)and he resurrects Harvey Dent, but the main plot would center around an offer from Ra's to resurrect Bruce Wayne's parents. The catch is that Bruce as to give up being Batman, by revealing to the world his true identity. An impossible choice...and throw in Catwoman, the Riddler, etc.
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you know, you get what kind of movie it is and it does look kinda straight-to-video, judging by the trailer - whoever said Steven Seagal flick, yes ON PAPER...
but DAMN if it didn't exceed my expectations and in terms of actions scenes, had one of my favourite car chases - you've seen big ass four wheel drives in car chases a hundred times but this guy actually PUTS THEM TO WORK!
it's a quality thing - put Luc Besson together with Liam Neeson and you can't lose
you just can't!
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And liam Neeson is one of my favorite people. The world is a better place with people like him in it!
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I love the way this guy sounds, and I'm not ashamed of it.
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of the nolan cast or crew returning. nolan's batman doesn't have lazarus pits or superman, a bitter pill to swallow as nolan doing a superflick could be interesting. but it ain't gonna materialise. licking a poisonous frog to simulate death and wake up to impress his ninja palls is as close as nolan's world would appear to resemble the comics. but thats pointless to the story, and ra's is dead so it'd be in flashback.
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Go see it. Fucking awesome movie, loved the absolute shit out of it.
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This movie came out in South Africa, a while back. Brilliant film, cross between bourne identity and target with Gene Hackman
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It's The Fifth Element, set in Paris, in Modern Day... Mr. Shadow is a Middle-eastern Sheik, who wants some action. Korben Dallas is chasing after his daughter, instead of the stones. And for some reason he goes by the name Bryan Mills. The priest is now a Paris cop, retired from espionage... And Zorg is diminished into a kung-fu action Palestinian...
Go figure.
But does he get his stones back... er... I mean his Daughter back?
It's fun, outside of the fact that Neeson is really not aging well and the makeup artists were at a loss on what to do to make him even close to presentable.
If you get it, great. If not, oh well...
Thank you Luc Besson!
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