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Director: Pierre Morel

Pierre Morel worked as a cinematographer for Luc Besson before directing District 13, a parkour action film that used the discipline before Hollywood discovered it.

Taken is the one that mattered. Made cheaply in France with an actor nobody considered an action star, it became an enormous hit and effectively created a subgenre of older men with particular skills that is still running.

His subsequent work, From Paris with Love and The Gunman, did not repeat it, and the Besson production style he came from has been widely imitated since.

Taken Trilogy (2008-2014) film poster

Olivier Megaton

Taken Trilogy (2008-2014)

The original is among the strongest compressed action thrillers of its decade. Sequels decline predictably.

Taken (2008) film poster

Taken (2008) Review

Taken is the best pure action film of the twenty-first century. Pierre Morel directed it in thirty-six days in Paris on a twenty-five million dollar budge.