Talkin’ About My Revolutions

Pierre Morel’s Taken is an anachronism, a thriller George W. Bush might have enjoyed. Or, as Critic After Dark Noel Vera says, more to the point, it’s something Dick Cheney might have chortled over, reminiscing of better times, if they had remained in power.

One can imagine Pierre Morel’s Taken (2008) screening in the White House’s private theater, only not for its intended audience: the Bush’s two little girls sent to bed, the wife close by his side, both set of presidential knuckles tightening over their armrests - not so much in awe of the derring-do depicted onscreen (the action sequences are incoherent and therefore dull) as in wonder at the idiots who can dream up this garbage.

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