T A K E N

Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson), a former government operative, is trying to reconnect with his daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace) . Then his worst fears become real when Kim and her friend are abducted by sex slavers shortly after arriving in Paris for vacation. With just four days until Kim will be auctioned off, Bryan must call on every skill he learned in black ops to rescue her.

---> it's an action-suspense-thriller film that will surely satisfy your craving for a good movie. I love this movie. even from the start, it was interesting already. it is generally about a father-daughter relationship, about how a father would do anything out of love for his daughter. it's a touching and heartbreaking film at the beginning. a lot of action scenes all throughout which is the part that i somewhat disliked from the movie (they were so brutal). but still it amazed me as to how only one man can do all the killing and fighting. the storyline was mainly outstanding. just the idea of how one person using his special skills from like re-enactments of the actual incident, finding clues, how he can just go in and out from an exclusive event, and how he easily traces the criminals with the given time of 96 hours. it somehow depicts reality, as to how dangerous the world can be. but then it also shows that we can rely on the most important persons in our lives. its a must watch film. you'll love it from start to end.

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LENORE: I don't get you.
BRYAN: What?
LENORE: You sacrificed our marriage to the service of the country, you've made a mess of your life in the service of your country; can't you sacrifice a little one time for your own daughter?
BRYAN: I would sacrifice anything for her.

BRYAN: I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.
MARKO: [after a long pause] Good luck.

BRYAN: A friend gave this to me. Its Albanian. You mind translating it?
MARKO: [translates paper] "Good luck".
BRYAN: You don't remember me? We spoke on the phone two days ago. I told you I would find you.

13 GOING ON 30

Thirteen-year-old Jenna (Shana Dowdeswell) has had enough with the trials of adolescence. In addition to being saddled with a devoted-but-nerdy best friend, Matt (Sean Marquette), she falls victim to one of the dangers of playing Seven Minutes in Heaven with the coolest kids in school: being stranded without a willing make-out partner. Humiliated, Jenna buries herself in the aforementioned make-out closet, wishing she could skip the whole adolescence bit and move straight into adulthood, and miraculously wakes just weeks away from her 30th birthday. Of course, a lot has changed since going to bed the night before, not the least of which being an impressive set of womanly curves. The new, older Jenna (Jennifer Garner) is a successful magazine editor with friends in high places and a lion's share of potential suitors -- including a hockey-playing boyfriend and a swarthy married man. The problem is that her mind hasn't matured with her body; Jenna not only finds living on her own more terrifying than cool, but is quick to dismiss any male over the age of 14 as "gross." Half excited, half mortified, Jenna seeks out Matt (Mark Ruffalo), whom she learns she had spurned as a teenager in an effort to join the popular crowd.

---> a funny but an inspiring movie telling you that you don't have to skip parts of your life just so because something bad happened to you. a lot of younger people really wants to feel grown-up already; having to do adult stuffs like sleeping late, wearing make up, going out with friends and coming home late. i also felt that when i was younger but now that I've grown, it's like you wanted to turn back time, because it's really a pain to be an adult. being an adult means more responsibilities in life. we have to think of other people's lives unlike before when all that mattered were just toys, school and homework. it's really hard but that's part of life. and what's good about it is that we can learn a lot from these experiences, it helps us build a stronger, a more mature and a more faithful person within all of us. we can't definitely just be 13 y.o now and be 30 y.o tomorrow, we can never fast forward time. all we can do is to be patient and make most of our lives hoping that along the way, we gradually achieve all our dreams and be the person we wanted to be.

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MATT: You can't just turn back time.
JENNA: Why not?

JENNA: You want to know a secret?
MATT:Yeah.
JENNA: You're the sweetest guy I've ever met.

RICHARD: Who's your daddy?
JENNA: Wayne Rink!

JENNA: I love you, Matt. You're my best friend.
MATT: I love you too, Jenna... I've always loved you.

JENNA: Matty.
MATT:Yeah?
JENNA: Arrivederci.
MATT:I'll see you.
ENNA: Matt!
MATT: Yeah? [she gives him a look]
MATT: Au revoir.

JENNA: Matt, stop being so nice to me. I don't deserve it. Do you know what kind of person I am now, I mean - do you know who I am right now? I don't have any real friends. I did something bad with a married guy. I don't talk to my mom and dad. I'm not a nice person. And the thing is - I'm not 13 anymore.

JENNA: A Razzle, Mr. Flamhaff?
MATT: Thank you, Mrs. Flamhaff.

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