At the end of the week, Liam Neeson is going to be kicking some ass. I'm not talking Qui-Gon Jinn slicing up some robots, but really going to town on some criminals. Taken follows a man who has "a very particular set of skills...skills that make him a nightmare..." for the people who have kidnapped his daughter.

There's a lot of buzz around this picture, and some people are even comparing Liam Nesson's performance in action to that of Matt Damon (check that link, trust me) in The Bourne Trilogy. That's really saying something considering Neeson has almost 18 years on Damon.

The first trailer for this movie really surprised me with its sort of twist if you will (if you haven't seen it, you'll see what I'm talking about in the trailer below). This movie will definitely be a breath of fresh air in the hellish empty void of the movie season that is January through April. It's also fresh in the sense that the last time something I liked involved a kidnapping, all it led to was the character who lost their kid running through the jungle yelling for him and reminding everybody that the kid was taken ("WAAAAAAAAALT!" I'm looking at you Michael from LOST). Anyway, if you've seen the theatrical trailer, then this isn't a huge departure from that one. There's some better music in my opinion, and some more intense action cuts. What do you guys think?