Anthony Lane on Taken

Anthony Lane’s review of Taken is quite a bit of fun:

If there’s one thing we’ve learned from “California Dreamin',” it’s that seventeen-year-old daughters get into scrapes. And if there’s one thing we’ve learned from “24” it’s that anybody named Kim, with a father schooled in dirty work by the U.S. government, will have a large echo chamber where her brain is meant to be. Kim and a friend leave for a vacation in Europe, where, ignoring the advice of her father, they are abducted with such consummate speed that it might have been simpler if he had FedExed them directly to the kidnappers.