

Taken
Directed by Pierre Morel
Bryan Mills, a former government operative, is trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter Kim. After reluctantly agreeing with his ex-wife to let Kim go to Paris on vacation with a friend, his worst nightmare comes true. While on the phone with his daughter shortly after she arrives in Paris, she and her friend are abducted by a gang of human traffickers. Working against the clock, Bryan relies on his extensive… From TMDB
114 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
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| Bluesky * | 2 | 2 | 78 |
| Mastodon * | 1 | 1 | 22 |
| TMDB reviews * | 6 | 0 | 2 |
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Taken is a 2008 action thriller film, directed by Pierre Morel, starring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace and Famke Janssen.
- 95 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews
- posts span Jan 7, 2013 to Nov 4, 2026
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60 of 114 · most liked first🎉🎉🎉 #Severance film still #12 Taken at wrap after hair was just set free.
neutral · AI labelView post →Why is the White House posting movie quotes from Taken? 🤔
neutral · AI labelView post →Stranger photo. Taken from a folding camera on 616 film.
neutral · AI labelView post →Edinburgh seafront properties. Taken on a Mamiya RB67 medium format camera / Velvia film. #Photography
neutral · AI labelView post →I love that account because every comment he makes gets a bunch of maga guys angrily threatening to never watch another Taken movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →the government posting death threats to my community and using a quote from the movie Taken to do so is leaving me with emotions that have yet to be named in german
neutral · AI labelView post →“Sinners: This Film Has Taken Over My Life” by ThisIsCourtneyTaylor
neutral · AI labelView post →Window view. Taken with Kodak Portra 400 film with Pentax K1000. Photo shoot with @stiopamazanco.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →If me and @pupcryo.bsky.social were in a movie what would be called? Taken at @howldtla.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →One Like = One Film About an Opera Singer Whose Voice is Taken by an Evil Hypnotist But He Becomes a Silent Film Star and the Hypnotist Has a Heart Attack When He Sees Him Onscreen
neutral · AI labelView post →They're gonna do a Taken style film like this and call it ICE breaker
neutral · AI labelView post →wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait do you think Taken is……….. not good????????? five years in Movie Take jail
negative · AI labelView post →The only time I shot on Ilford film. Taken in Paris a few years ago. #ilfordfilm #35mm 🎞️
neutral · AI labelView post →#OTD in 1944, Hamont, Belgium. Taken prisoner, by an Army Film and Photographic Unit. #WW2 #HISTORY
neutral · AI labelView post →I posted a shot from this day a while ago. That one was taken with a digital camera. This one was taken on film. Shot with my Nikon FM and 35mm lens. Taken on Fomapan 100 film. #fomapan #analogphotography #filmphotography #blackandwhite
neutral · AI labelView post →It's no one film. I need to see someone's film ecosystem. Fight Club looks different next to a bunch of stuff from the same year, as it does in a row of Brad Pitt movies, as it does again sitting between Taken and Rambo.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm excited to see the new TAKEN type movie starring Milla Jovovich tomorrow (PROTECTOR). I guess it's still January!
neutral · AI labelView post →Taken ⁞2008 www.imdb.com/title/tt0936501 #NowWatching #filmsky ·a retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris·
neutral · AI labelView post →Taken (2008) 🎬🖤 Directed by Pierre Morel
neutral · AI labelView post →Taken from the movie The Mysterians 1957, a pair of sparking ray guns #collectibles
neutral · AI labelView post →Share an ACTION movie title that begins with the letter “T” 🎥 T is for… Taken 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →Edible: Taken Movie: Playing
neutral · AI labelView post →So I may or may not be fully out of touch; but it seems to me if Paramount CAN'T turn out the presumptive audience to a solid profit for "'TAKEN' but also 'YELLOWSTONE' from the director of 'OLD HENRY'" then that audience might just simply not exist at scale anymore 🤷♂️ youtu.be/nzNYomSd5Ls?...
neutral · AI labelView post →holy shit there’s a Sydney Sweeney human trafficking TAKEN-meets-Lifetime-style-movie film out there from the same era. It’s on Prime @davidjroth.bsky.social @mobute.bsky.social @enbrown.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →View from one of the trails near Kyoto, Japan Taken with my #vintage praktica camera on #35mm @ilfordphoto.com xp2 film (400). Manual settings, #noai #believeinfilm #filmphotography #travelphotography
neutral · AI labelView post →#FebruaryMovieChallenge #Moviesky #Filmsky Day 4. Someone taken against their will in a movie. Taken (2008)
neutral · AI labelView post →I didn't realise so many people liked that one Liam Neeson movie where his daughter got kidnapped but I keep seeing people with Taken in their bio so it must have a pretty big fan base
neutral · AI labelView post →Wife guys’s favorite movie? TAKEN
neutral · AI labelView post →actually i have a better comp for what im worried this is going to be: a post-TAKEN liam neeson movie for gen-x men who read the new yorker iow, a power fantasy for the kind of middle-aged man who idolizes iggy pop instead of john wayne
neutral · AI labelView post →How about this for a first date — as Marshall Fine describes what happened on John Cassavetes & Gena Rowlands’. They were married from 1954 until John’s death in 1989. (Taken from ‘Accidental Genius: How John Cassavetes Invented The American Independent Film’ - 2006)
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy Halloween everyone 🎃👻☠️ I was trying to figure out what image to share for Halloween and ultimately I went with this image of a Red-Winged Black Bird in high-key B&W. It has a horror film about it I think. Taken on my Sony A77ii with a Tamron 150-600mm lens 📸 #WildlifePhotography #Bird #ECK
neutral · AI labelView post →Brickworks 📸 No. 1 Kodak Jr. (1914) 🎞️ Ilford Ortho Plus 80 120 Film ✨ Taken 25/19/26 by VIDIBIT I have finally tested my oldest camera: a No. 1 Kodak Jr. from early 1914. These brickworks seemed the perfect subject. I didn't expect these ethereal light leaks! #vidibit #believeinfilm #blackandwhite
neutral · AI labelView post →Fall in Maine on film. Taken with my Nikon FE and a combination of Kodak Ektacolor Pro 160, UltraMax 400, and EKTAPAN 400 #filmisnotdead
neutral · AI labelView post →Graffiti along the South Bank. Taken recently with my 1980 Olympus OM2n and Ilford HP5 film #streetphotography
neutral · AI labelView post →Orava Castle, Slovakia, where F.W. Murnau filmed the 1922 silent film "Nosferatu". Taken on my 1995 tour of former Iron Curtain countries.
neutral · AI labelView post →Taken with a Rollieflex Mat EVS TLR #film #photography #Analog
neutral · AI labelView post →Old Iron 📸 Rolleicord IIc (1949) 🎞️ @lomography Metropolis 100-400 120 Film ✨ Taken 11/10/26 by VIDIBIT The Rolleicord is back, this time at Railfest 2026. G233 Leschenault Lady came up to the city for a visit! I think she looks pretty good for an 128-year-old. #vidibit #trains #believeinfilm
neutral · AI labelView post →Taken by his dog sitter Tony who is his adventure buddy while I’m in Dublin & Donegal for film festivals. They adore each other, which helps.
neutral · AI labelView post →King Alfred, Hove. Taken with camera No. 25 in my Compact Point & Shoot project — the Nikon L35AF2 using Kodak Gold film. From Part 5, the final instalment of my project, including the final ranking table of all 29 cameras tested: rangefinderchronicles.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Railway Reflections. Darkroom print. @ilfordphoto.com Delta 400 (I rarely use any other film!) developed in DDX. Taken at the @greatcentralrailwy.bsky.social. Was attracted to the reflections but the detail in the print was more than I had expected. #believeinfilm
neutral · AI labelView post →So I saw something about #FensterFreitag and #Photography so I thought - why not contribute. This window (and door) is from a journey I did to #Argentina in 2005. Taken with a Canon EOS3, I can’t at the moment remember exactly which film I used. It’s taken in […] [Original post on mastodon.nu]
neutral · AI labelView post →Taken this day, 2016, the great John Carpenter, performing #music from his own movies, in the Usher Hall www.flickr.com/photos/woola... Great atmosphere, & a fabulous night with a good chum, who is no longer with us now. Bit bittersweet, this memory... #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #musique #photography
neutral · AI labelView post →Hakeem Jeffries in the movie *Taken*: "Look, just keep my daughter. I don't want to get even or anything."
neutral · AI labelView post →Taken on its own Blair Witch movie seems to be unrelated to exact laws that govern missing people cases, but I think most people instinctively, by osmosis, knew that such real footaeg won't be on a big screen. And this osmosis for old literature is entirely list to us
neutral · AI labelView post →Add "between my legs" to a movie title: Taken Between My Legs
neutral · AI labelView post →Add "between my legs" to a movie title Taken Between My Legs
neutral · AI labelView post →ALSO I HATE THAT IVE BEEN TAKEN IN BY THIS MOVIE ANOUT THIS STUPID SCAMMER BUT I WANT TO SEE ITTTTTTTT
positive · AI labelView post →We just saw the second De Gaulle film at Institut français. Stirring, dramatic, enlightening and occasionally a little bit cheesy. Taken together, the two films are a remarkable achievement.
neutral · AI labelView post →Add “for Tax Purposes” to a movie: Taken for Tax Purposes.
neutral · AI labelView post →Greek film poster for TAKEN (2008 - Dir. Pierre Morel) Cast: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Leland Orser
neutral · AI labelView post →#1WordFor1Music #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Nov 5th: Faster The Cramps - Faster Pussycat Taken from 1983’s live album, Smell Of Female, this is a cover version of the lead song from a 1965 Russ Meyer film If you think you can take her We’ll just you try youtu.be/PDNnvycTn1A
neutral · AI labelView post →Ahh, the Trump admin ... doing my greatest hits AGAIN ... ... when I actually quoted Liam Neeson in the movie, "Taken." Good F*cking Lord. They're a stupid and useless bunch. cc: @abc7.bsky.social @cbsnews.com @nbcnews.com @ms.now @pbsnews.org @cnn.com @politico.com @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Soften up a horror film: Mildly Taken With
neutral · AI labelView post →“Yeah. If some weirdo asked me what my favorite scary movie would be, it’d be: Taken. The most terrifying thing about those was the dude was a bad enough parent to warrant two extra sequels.”
positive · AI labelView post →Also seemed to think it was the best idea to strip the Rambo franchise of it's identity in the final film, and just make it into what felt like a Taken knock-off with an extra dose of racism.
neutral · AI labelView post →Taken notes. Sourcing that movie! :) 🫡
neutral · AI labelView post →Peter O’Brien and My Brother Rob. Taken with infrared film.
neutral · AI labelView post →Add “for Tax Purposes” to a movie: Taken for Tax Purposes
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched Taken 2 last night, it was so bad compared to the first film (not saying the first film's a masterpiece or anything but still), the plot was super basic and it felt like barely anything happened
negative · AI labelView post →...viewed as Gothic-before-Gothic in its subject matter. For Liz, Cox’s film of a seventeenth-century tragedy exaggerates the Gothic’s concern for porosity in temporal, spatial, and embodied ways. Taken together, then, it is clear that Lisa's _Screening the Gothic_ launched the twenty-first...
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