Taken

Taken

Who's in it: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen

What's it about: Bryan(Neeson) is a distant but loving father to his only daughter Kim(Grace). All of her life, he's never missed a birthday, but his job caused him to miss most everything else. After the divorce from his wife Lenore(Janssen), everything has been different. Kim now has a rich stepfather and suprises her with a tour of Europe for her birthday. Bryan allows this but only on the condition of Kim keeping in close touch with her while she's away. When she leaves, Bryan gets a call from her and someone has kidnapped her friend and her. Bryan must now search the area and find his daughter before she is sold into the market as a prostitute.

What I Think: This movie had a whole bunch of action! Like ridiculous things that I would love to learn. The things that Liam Neeson had to perform were just perfect and I loved it! Grace played a very realistic and interesting character. I don't know if Janssen's character was supposed to act a bit uncaring, but I really didn't buy her character. The way that she would say things made me feel like she was part of it the whole movie until the end. The was that Neeson was pretty much the only person that really mattered the whole movie was very interesting. I watched the movie again to make sure that I could understand more concepts.

X-Men I

X-Men I

Who's in it: Hugh Jackman, Anna Paquin, Halle Berry, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, James Marsden

What's it about: Logan(Jackman) has been a loner since his operation. He has indestructable claws that retract into his arm and he uses them to his advantage all of the time. He is nicknames Wolverine. When he meets Rogue(Paquin), they travel to Professor Charles Xavier's(Stewart) school for gifted youngsters. When Storm(Berry) discovers that Rogue has the power to "borrow" another mutants powers for a short period of time, Magneto(McKellen) becomes interested in her. It's up to Wolvering, Storm, Dr. Jean Grey(Janssen), and Cyclops(Marsden) to keep Rogue safe and out of Magneto's dangerous grip.

What I Think: I've always been amazed with the X-Men. I used to watch the cartoon as a child and always wished that I too could be powerful like them. I'm glad to see some of the acting in this really portrays the characters from the comic and the cartoon. I wonder if they all had to watch hours upon hours of the cartoon and read the comics for months! I was specifically impressed with Jackman. He's Australian but you can barely tell when he plays as Wolverine. He gets the anger down and he can really make the right facial expressions. The humor was kind of hard to pick up but I got most of it! I loved Stewart and Berry. I thought that they were able to really dig into their characters personality and bring it to life. I was, however, disappointed with the way Paquin did Rogue. It was probably the script writers fault, but I found her character way out of wack.