Taken (also titled 96 Hours and The Hostage) is a 2008 French English-language action-thriller film written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen, and directed by Pierre Morel. It stars Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Katie Cassidy, Leland Orser, and Holly Valance. It is the first film in the Taken film series, followed by Taken 2.
Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson), a former government operative, is trying to reconnect with his daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace). Then his worst fears become real when sex slavers abduct Kim and her friend shortly after they arrive in Paris for vacation. With just four days until Kim will be auctioned off, Bryan must call on every skill he learned in black ops to rescue her.
Victims[]
- Unnamed Human Trafficker - Head slammed on a car by Bryan Mills.
- Peter - Committed suicide by jumping in front of a truck.
- Unnamed Human Trafficker - Strangled by Bryan Mills with a curtain.
- Unnamed Woman - Shot by a human trafficker.
- Unnamed Human Trafficker - Shot by Bryan Mills.
- Unnamed Human Trafficker - Shot by Bryan Mills.
- Two Unnamed Human Traffickers - Blown up when Bryan Mills crashed into oil drums which blew up.
- Two Unnamed Human Traffickers - Killed when Bryan Mills crashed into his car.
- Unnamed Human Trafficker - Killed when Bryan Mills caused his car to flip over.
- Anton - Decapitated when Bryan Mills caused his car to crash into a bulldozer.
- Unnamed Human Trafficker - Stabbed by Bryan Mills with a knife.
- Unnamed Human Trafficker - Stabbed by Bryan Mills with a knife.
- Darden - Shot by Bryan Mills.
- Unnamed Human Trafficker - Shot by Bryan Mills.
- Three Unnamed Human Traffickers - Shot by Bryan Mills.
- Unnamed Human Trafficker - Shot by Bryan Mills.
- Unnamed Human Trafficker - Shot by Bryan Mills.
- Unnamed Human Trafficker - Shot by Bryan Mills.
- Amanda - Chocked on her own vomit after being injected with an overdose of heroin by Marko Hoxha off-screen, body seen.
- Marko Hoxha - Electrocuted to death after Bryan Mills hooked up wires to metal rods in his legs in order to find out who kidnapped his daughter.
- Unnamed Human Trafficker - Punched in the throat by Bryan Mills.
- Unnamed Human Trafficker - Killed by Bryan Mills off-screen, implied.
- Unnamed Human Trafficker - Punched in the throat by Bryan Mills.
- Unnamed Human Trafficker - Neck broken by Bryan Mills.
- Unnamed Human Trafficker - Head bashed in by Bryan Mills with a fire extinguisher.
- Unnamed Human Trafficker - Shot by Bryan Mills.
- Unnamed Human Trafficker - Shot in the head by Bryan Mills.
- Patrice Saint-Clair - Shot to death by Bryan Mills.
- Unnamed Human Trafficker - Head bashed in by Bryan Mills with a car door.
- Unnamed Human Trafficker - Neck broken by Bryan Mills.
- Unnamed Human Trafficker - Drowned after Bryan Mills threw him over the boat.
- Unnamed Human Trafficker - Head slammed on a sink by Bryan Mills.
- Unnamed Human Trafficker - Punched in the throat by Bryan Mills.
- Unnamed Human Trafficker - Shot by Bryan Mills.
- Unnamed Human Trafficker - Shot in the head by Bryan Mills.
- Unnamed Human Trafficker - Shot by Bryan Mills.
- Unnamed Human Trafficker - Shot by Bryan Mills.
- Nezir - Shot by Bryan Mills.
- Ali - Stabbed to death by Bryan Mills with a knife.
- Sheik Raman - Shot in the head by Bryan Mills.
Deaths[]
- Total - 44
- 42 Men
- 2 Women
Kill Counts[]
- CIA Agent Bryan Mills - 41 (Alive)
- Marko Hoxha - 1 (Deceased)