Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) is a divorced policeman, retired from the CIA, who wants to spend more time with her 17 year old daughter Kim (Maggie Grace), who now lives with his ex-wife Lenore (Famke Janssen) and new husband This rich Stuart (Xander Berkeley). When pop diva comes to town, Bryan was hired for security. After the show, the diva is attacked, but Bryan disable the attacker. Gratefully, the diva expresses some interest in Bryan's daughter after learning that Kim wants to be a singer. The diva gives your contact information all paid.

The next day, Bryan finds out that Kim wants to take a vacation to Paris with her friend Ammand (Katie Cassidy) to visit museums. Despite his initial concerns about the trip, Bryan agrees to let Kim go, but at all times maintain communication. It gives you a phone to call when you arrive and every day before bedtime. Later he discovers that his real plan is to travel to Europe to pursue a band (U2) on tour. Leonore, boring Bryan overprotective then warns that it is free to leave or lose. When they arrive at Charles de Gaulle airport, Kim and Amanda know the exit to take a taxi a charming Frenchman named Peter (Nicolas Giraud), which attracts the attention of Ammand, Peter throws a party and find out the direction of the girls and some data more to go looking.

At home, Kim receives a phone call from her father because she had forgotten to call upon arrival. The young man replied in the bathroom because Amanda had the loud music and dancing. Then suddenly everything changes. From the bathroom window Kim sees some men enter the main room Ammand kidnap. Kim says it alarmed her father. It gives instructions to hide under a bed and wear it when leaving the cell there and cry all the information you can. Bryan connect the phone to a recorder. INITIATIVE to be crucial to reveal to the kidnappers.

Bryan is able to obtain critical information about the kidnappers when Kim screams all you can about them before being taken away. In short, Bryan speaking with one of the kidnappers, warning that has some special abilities that can turn into a nightmare for the subject and that unless Kim release, if they do, if released to Kim, he did not pursue and not denounce, the hijacker replied "good luck" before breaking the phone.

Taking advantage of his government contacts and business connections of his ex-wife's husband, Bryan travels to Paris to find her daughter, a friend of Bryan reports that the hijackers are Albanians and traffickers who use women for prostitution, which has only 96 hours to recover his daughter before they are gone forever and that the local leader is a man named Marko Tropoja.

Bryan uses digital photographs of the remains of the broken phone memory to locate Kim first of the series: Peter who surprised coaxing a girl outside the airport, knocking him questions, but he escapes and desperate jump from una'sobrevía and killed by a truck while trying to escape from Bryan.

Bryan looks at night with a prostitute and annoyed with the aim that the pimp who manages approaches in doing so he placed a tracking device. Bryan does not suspect you are being followed by an ex-friend who is a policeman in France.

Continues to pimp up some containers installed in a building where the workers pay for a while in a brothel full of drugged girls, one girl wearing a jacket that belonged to Kim, to enter and Bryan is a client and removes it and pulls the girl killing and destroying the brothel pimps.

Manages to save one of the girls abducted by the Albanians and she reveals the direction of the house in the Rue de Paradis, where the kidnappers have other girls and several other women abducted, including Amanda, who has died of an overdose of drug and where he met Kim. Bryan is the house and posing as police manage to hit one of the hijackers, Marko Tropoja recognizing the recorded voice of Kim's cell. Bryan eliminated quickly and efficiently acolytes Marko reserved for questioning under torture and electricity, until he confesses the name of the kidnapper of Kim. Marko gets tortured to discover that Kim was sold to a man named Patrice Saint-Claire, who showed interest in making a profit because it is virgin. Let Marko becoming rotisserie by electricity.

After causing havoc in the streets of Paris, Bryan is pursued by the French authorities, including Bryan's former ally, Jean-Claude (Olivier Rabourdin). Bryan meets him and discovers that he was taking bribes to conceal the trafficking and made strong action at home as long as the corrupt French police release information on the direction of Saint Claire.

Bryan enters the building where Saint-Claire, virgin girls sell there. She sees her daughter in the auction. However, it is trapped. He manages to escape and find Saint-Claire, kills him after learning that his daughter was bought by some Arab clients. Bryan manages to remain in a car to the boat where your daughter. He jumps from a bridge to the ship and kill everyone inside, finally, the Arab man, a wealthy sheik threatened with a knife to his daughter, but Bryan Kim shoots do not go getting hurt. In the course of the movie Bryan "kills" to 29 men. Already in the U.S., Kim is reunited with his mother. Kim Bryan takes home the diva as a surprise, the diva arranged an audition with her vocal coach.

Taken, película del año 2008 protagonizada por Liam Neeson y Famke Janssen.

Taken (titled Relentless Search in Latin America and Revenge in Spain) is a high impact movie in action and drama, starring Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen and Maggie Grace. Directed by Pierre Morel is written and produced by Luc Besson.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Liam Neeson	...	Bryan Mills
	Maggie Grace	...	Kim
	Leland Orser	...	Sam
	Jon Gries	...	Casey
	David Warshofsky	...	Bernie
	Holly Valance	...	Sheerah
	Katie Cassidy	...	Amanda
	Xander Berkeley	...	Stuart
	Olivier Rabourdin	...	Jean-Claude
	Gérard Watkins	...	St-Clair
	Famke Janssen	...	Lenore
	Marc Amyot	...	Pharmacist
	Arben Bajraktaraj	...	Marko
	Radivoje Bukvic	...	Anton (as Rasha Bukvic)
	Mathieu Busson	...	Undercover Agent