Taken Heart

Acting poor and above all lots of improbable sequences and heaps of nonsense actions. Don't waste your time with such a movie>

Don't waste your time with this one. You've seen it before. Maybe not this one, but other ones that follow the same basic plot line: girl goes missing (why is it always the girl, never the boy?) during a solo trip to some foreign country, police don't believe the single parent. Parent goes hunting for girl. Fighting. Gun play. Girl rescued. The only real difference in this one is the acting. Acting that fails to impress anyone. And a final summary of why the events of the movie happened is more confusing than it needs be. The film makers probably wanted it to differ from other similar themed movies by including a ....Well, I wouldn't want to spoil it for you. The movie itself will do it for you. The Knightwolf recommends skipping this one.

Unfortunately the film is pretty bad. Potential for an excellent story but stilted acting and certainly doesn't need to have a guidance warning

Yes another copy cat "Taken film" but with a girl. Slow boring and predictable script. The acting was stunted and the timing was off to say the least. So many holes it was unbelievable such as when the girl was sedated completely out of it one minute, the next thing she's running for the boat. Quick recovery! A extremely soppy end that was not necessary but just one more reason not to watch the film

Canadian actress Gina Holden is both gorgeous and game, but neither quality will suffice to save this sodden, dull, misfit of a film.

From a production company that almost single-handedly manages to commoditize B-movies as if they came off a conveyor belt (Jeepers Creepers 3, Nightmare Nurse) we have something which, once upon a time, scrawled on a napkin in the back of a bar, must have seemed really clever.

"Let's do a version of Taken with a female lead!" someone said, then someone else agreed, then a third person raised the cash ... and here we are.

The best sequence is the first 4 minutes, which does a pretty good job of establishing Holden's character as a tough female cop who is not afraid of violence.

Would that we could say the same about the screenwriters, because, after that solid opening, the film chugs along for almost a full hour before we see even a hint of action; and when we finally do, it is too little, too late.

Recommended? No, thank you.