A retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris.
Seventeen year-old Kim is the pride and joy of her father Bryan Mills. Bryan is a retired agent who left the Central Intelligence Agency to be near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. Kim manages to convince her reluctant father to allow her to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When the girls arrive in Paris they share a cab with a stranger named Peter, and Amanda lets it slip that they are alone in Paris. Using this information an Albanian gang of human traffickers kidnaps the girls. Kim barely has time to call her father and give him information. Her father gets to speak briefly to one of the kidnappers and he promises to kill the kidnappers if they do not let his daughter go free. The kidnapper wishes him "good luck," so Bryan Mills travels to Paris to search for his daughter and her friend.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
After reluctantly agreeing to let his 17-year-old daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace), go to France with her best friend, Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) is horrified to hear that she is kidnapped by an Albanian gang whose specialty is prostitution rings. With only 96 hours to go before he'll never find her again, Bryan rushes to France to save her. As a former CIA agent, he has all the skills necessary to rescue her - if he can only find her.—The Mariah
Former CIA agent Bryan Mills reluctantly agrees to let his 17 year old daughter Kim go to Paris on a trip. His ex-wife Lenore and her new husband Stuart are all for it and Kim sets off with a friend. On arrival in Paris however, Kim and her friend are kidnapped by mobsters running a slavery-prostitution ring. Bryan's only lead is a short snippet of a conversation from when Kim phoned him in a panic. With that, he's able to identify the origin of the speaker and which criminal gang he's with. Once in Paris, he quickly shows everyone connected with the case that he will stop at nothing to get his daughter back.—garykmcd
Yearning to bridge the gap between him, his ex-wife, Lenore, and his lively seventeen-year-old daughter, Kim, the divorced and almost retired former CIA agent, Bryan Mills, struggles to spend more quality time with her. However, when Mills reluctantly gives his permission to let Kim and her friend, Amanda, travel to Paris, his fears will be justified, as the two innocent girls get kidnapped on arrival by a ruthless white-slavery ring. Now, up against the well-prepared kidnappers, the seasoned veteran has less than 96 hours to rescue his daughter, and the clock is ticking. Can Mills put the fragments of information to good use?—Nick Riganas
Bryan (Liam Neeson) is retired CIA. he loves his 17 yr old girl Kim (Maggie Grace), who now lives with ex-wife Lennore (Famke Janssen) & her new husband Stuart(Xander Berkeley). Kim wants to be a singer. Bryan is protecting a pop singer Sheerah (Holly Valance) as a private consultant with friends (Sam (Leland Orser) & others) & saves her life. She shares her vocal coach & manager's numbers with Bryan. Kim wants to go to Paris with her friend Amanda (Katie Cassidy) & Bryan is skeptical but signs the consent form when Kim is upset with his refusal. Kim says the trip is an art tour of Paris, but they actually intend to follow U2. Lennore knew but didn't say anything.
At Paris airport airport, they meet a young Parisian named Peter (Nicolas Giraud). He wants to share a Taxi. Kim reluctantly agrees. They have Peter take their picture with Kim's phone. Peter drops them off & invites them to a party. Peter makes a quick phone call "Two girls about 18," and the address of the apartment. Kim asks Amanda about the cousins & Amanda says that they are vacationing in Spain.
As Bryan calls Kim, 2 men attack & subdue Amanda in their apartment. Bryan asks Kim to hide under the bed. She tells Bryan about Peter. Bryan tells her that she will be "Taken" but asks her to keep her phone on & shout as much description as possible.Following Bryan's instructions, she screams out, "Beard! Six Feet! Tattoo, right hand, moon and star!". The kidnapper takes the phone & Bryan tells him to let Kim go, else he will find & kill them. The kidnapper says "Good luck."
Bryan calls in Sam & he finds the language from a town in Albania (the voice conversation of kidnappers recorded via Kim's phone). Their leader Marko (Arben Bajraktaraj) runs a prostitution business & Bryan has 4 days to save Kim. Bryan finds KIm's phone in her apartment in Paris & traces Peter through a photo Kim took at the airport. Peter runs as Bryan pursues & gets killed. Bryan meets French intelligence Jean-Claude (Olivier Rabourdin) who gives him an address where the Albanian gang operates out of. There he finds Kim's jacket on another girl (Héléna Soubeyrand). He takes her, escaping the Albanians.
Jean-Claude wants to meet Bryan, but Bryan doesn't trust him & escapes a trap set by Jean to capture Bryan. The girl he rescued gives him an address in Paris where Kim is. Bryan gets there & finds Marko via his particular accent of "Good Luck." He shoots everybody but Marko. Then he finds Amanda's dead body in an upstairs room.Bryan tortures Marko who says that Kim has been sold to St-Clair (Gérard Watkins).Bryan enters Jean's house & finds that Jean is in cahoots with the Albanians for the money. Bryan shoots Jean's wife & tortures him to reveal St-Clair's address.
St-Clair is auctioning off the new meat, Kim, who goes for $500,000. Bryan forces one bidder at gunpoint to outbid all. St-Clair captures Bryan & restrains him & says "It's only business." Bryan escapes & kills St-Clair, before which he reveals Kim will be at the pier. At the pier, the boat has left & Bryan follows it & boards it from a bridge. He finds & shoots an Arab sheik who has Kim & other girls as prostitutes.Back home, Bryan takes Kim to meet Sheerah.
