Liam Neeson makes like Jason Bourne in this Luc Bresson-produced actioner, playing a former CIA agent who takes on a cabal of Albanian sex traffickers in Paris who’ve nabbed his estranged 17-year-old pop diva-aspiring daughter Kim (Lost’s Maggie Grace) while she’s vacationing there. Co-written by Robert Mark Kamen (the Transporter series), Taken isn’t as flamboyantly over-the-top as its director Pierre Morel’s previous film District 13, but it’s just as mindless and brisk with its business. The action, which has Neeson doing everything short of parkour acrobatics, is shot with a distinctly old school flavour; the windpipe-crushing fight scenes and shootouts erupt in short, sharp, brutal bursts comparable to prime-period Seagal. And Neeson is more than game, administering his Jack Bauer brand of tell-me-where-she-is-or-I’ll-stick-two-metal-rods-in-your-thighs-and-electroshock-the-shit-out-of-you with a hard-bitten fervour that belies his deceiving hangdog features.