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Taken, a review by KinkyCyborg

Title:Taken
Year: 2008
Director: Pierre Morel
Rating: NR
Length: 93 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround, French: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround
Subtitles: English, Spanish

Stars:
Liam Neeson
Maggie Grace
Leland Orser
Jon Gries
David Warshofsky

Plot:
Prepare to get Taken for the ride of your life! "Liam Neeson is an unstoppable force" (Premier) in this action-packed international thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. When his estranged teenage daughter (Maggie Grace) 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.

Extras:
Scene Access
Feature Trailers
Closed Captioned
Theatrical Version


No random pick tonight.... I picked Taken. I've heard from just about everyone who watched this how great it was and I have to agree.

Already a huge Liam Neeson fan to begin with, seeing him in an action film of this magnitude brings his game to a whole new level. He has had many tremendous dramatic roles in his career and yet he flawlessly makes the transition to action star... and a great one. I hope to see more from him. The ruthless edge to his character makes this movie so memorable and a keeper in anyone's collection with unlimited rewatchability. The human trafficking theme has been a popular one on screen these past 5 or so years but most of them have been of the dramatic variety.... good, but not nearly as memorable as Taken.

One of the best movies I've watched this year. 


Rating:

(From KinkyCyborg's Random Reviews 2010 on August 7th, 2010)

Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision, a review by Tom

Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision (2003/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Universal Home Entertainment (United States) Director: Steve Boyum Writing: Mike Richardson (Original Characters By), Mark Verheiden (Original Characters By), Gary Scott Thompson (Writer) Length: 81 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1 Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

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Stars:
Jason Scott Lee as Ryan Chang
Thomas Ian Griffith as Brandon Miller
Mary Page Keller as Doc
John Beck as O'Rourke
Tava Smiley as Tyler Jeffers

Plot:
Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision is the action-packed time travel adventure that takes thrill seekers on a wild ride through time - from Hitler's Germany to the Wild West and beyond.

Jason Scott Lee stars as Ryan Chang, the maverick Timecop who's assigned to prevent criminals from travelling to the past and altering the future. The clock is ticking – and Ryan must track down the evil mastermind Branson Miller (Thomas Ian Griffith) who's bent on using history as the ultimate weapon. Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision is packed with non-stop action, special effects and thrilling martial arts sequences!

Extras:

• Featurettes
• Scene Access
• Trailers

Definetely worse than the first part. Not recommended.

Rating:

(From Tom's Time-Travel Movie Reviews on January 5th, 2008)

Dark Angel Marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

1. Pilot
Max is a beautiful, unique girl -- she should be, she was designed that way. Engineered in a secret government lab twenty years ago, Max and her genetically enhanced siblings were created to be the perfect soldiers... until they escaped. Now, ten years later, against the backdrop of a post-apocalyptic Seattle, Max is on a quest to reclaim her past by finding her fellow escapees. But she's not the only one looking...

My Thoughts:
A really good start to a great show. This series made me a huge fan of the always lovely Jessica Alba!  There is nothing I like more then a strong woman.... a woman who can take care of herself... a woman that takes no crap from anyone... and that is Jessica Alba in this series... she really kicks ass and takes names later in this show!  As soon as I told a friend of mine that I just started a Dark Angel marathon today... the first thing she said to me was.... You better have a nice stack of bibs ready! 

In this episode Max (Alba) is trying her best to stay under the radar as she don't want to be discovered. That is until she meets Logan (Weatherly)... who shows her the meaning of helping people. Still a bit on the weary side... she does what is right... at the same time drawing attention to her location.

2. Heat
Max is lured further into Logan's realm when he promises her more information about her past. He tells her about the woman who picked her up roadside as a child - a woman named Hannah. Max heads out to find Hannah, and ultimately gets more clues about her biological mother.

My Thoughts:
I love this episode! Since Max's DNA was mixed with some cat DNA (for agility) she has a problem that every so often... like cats... she goes into heat. Being sexually charged to the point of barely being able to control herself... she needs to get past being in heat at the same time finding the woman that saved her the night of her escape from Manticore.... taking her one step closer to finding her brothers and sisters that escaped as well that night. At this point she is still a bit leary of doing good and helping people in fear that she will be found... but she is quicker to do the right thing then she was in the first episode.

3. Flushed
Max's seizures increase. Low on her medication after her friends mistakenly flush it down the toilet, Max breaks into a drug clinic. She is caught and ends up in jail and more openly a target for Lydecker.

My Thoughts:
This was a really good episode. Max... while trying to help herself finds a young girl that needs help... and she takes it on her own to give her the help she needs... so at this point you see that doing good is coming much easier by this episode. It's not that she was so much against helping people... more so she was trying not to get involved and staying under the radar so to speak. What with her being wanted by the military group that created her and her brothers and sisters.

(From Dark Angel Marathon on September 3rd, 2007)