Stolen (2012)
Directed by Simon West
Master thief Will Montgomery is just released from the State penitentiary after serving a 10 year sentence, is contacted by Vincent, his ex comrade in crime, who is holding Will’s teenage daughter ransom in a hijacked taxi cab. Vincent will only surrender her when Will reveals the whereabouts of the 20 million dollars he contrived to conceal from their last robbery.
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Obviously intended to imitate the 2008 hit Taken (right down to the title), this is certainly better than a lot of Cage's endeavours of late, but it still lacks anything resembling originality.
He was referring to " Battleship ," not " Taken ," but the sketch got to "Taken" later, and one sort of can't help but thinking of that while watching " Stolen ," in which the real Nicolas Cage plays a robber-gone-right after a prison stretch ... only he has to go wrong again after an ex-partner kidnaps his now-teenage daughter.
That's right "Stolen" is lifted from " Taken " -- and pretty unashamedly, to boot.
It's a familiar premise, and was handled with some flair in the Liam Neeson action yarn Taken, but here there are just too many standard movie conventions and too few surprises.
Stolen is very different from Pierre Morel's 2008 exploitation megahit Taken : There are six letters in its title, not five.
Stolen has been criticised for its seeming similarity to Liam Neeson's Taken , but those critics must have incredibly short memories.