So, it’s
July, you know what that means
Neeson
Month!
Liam Neeson,
the man with a very particular set of skills, we’ve seen crop up in a couple of
movies already. He had a cameo in the Dark Knight Rises and he played Good
Cop/Bad Cop in the Lego Movie, but we’re going to look at a few more examples
of his work, both the good, and some of the bad too. But why not start with the
movie that coined the phrase I used earlier in this paragraph, Taken
Released in
2009, Taken was a huge hit, making over $200m on its modest $25m budget. It’s
reception critically was a little more mixed, holding 59% on Rotten Tomatoes
with an average 5.8/10 and a 50 on Metacritic. It was also involved in some
very strange controversy when someone fraudulently said this was based on a
true story. Turned out to be all lies of course, but still kind of intriguing.
But to the movie itself.
