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73/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1687
- IMDb #659
- Google retired #370
- Rotten Tomatoes #2211
- Metacritic #2507
- Letterboxd #1880
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3309
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1066
- Metacritic Critics #3318
- Metacritic Audience #1008
- Criticker #1518
- Douban #399
- Kinopoisk #452
- AlloCiné #1079
- Trakt #585
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Lowest is Metacritic critics on 51, highest is Google on 94. Critics average 56, everyone else 77.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A retired CIA operative with a particular set of skills is desperately trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter. When she is kidnapped by human traffickers while on a trip to Paris, he has only 96 hours to track her down. He travels to France and uses his old espionage talents to dismantle the criminal organization piece by piece.
Details
- Director
- Pierre Morel
- Writers
- Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen
- Released
- 18 February 2008
- Country
- France, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $25.0M
- Box office
- $226.8M
- Awards
- 2 wins, 1 nomination
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Awards & nominations
See all 3 →2 wins from 3 nominations across 3 ceremonies
| Broadcast Music, Inc. 2008 | BMI Film Music Award | Nathaniel Méchaly | Winner |
| Golden Schmoes Awards 2008 | Best Line | Liam Neeson | Winner |
| Saturn Award 2008 | Best International Film | Taken | Nominee |
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×| BMI Film Music Award | Nathaniel Méchaly | Winner |
| Best Line | Liam Neeson | Winner |
| Best International Film | Taken | Nominee |