It's all that stupid mom's fault
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Movie_KING — 12 years ago(September 07, 2013 06:51 AM)
I thought Lenny acted the way she did because she married a rich man and forgot how to act like a real human being. I've seen it more than once. A working person comes into money and now can have anything they want 24 hours a day and people bend over backwards for then, then the first time someone says "No" to them about something they get totally bent out of shape and throw a fit like a toddler. That was Lenny in a nutshell. A spoiled rich beep
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joe_538 — 12 years ago(January 10, 2014 11:30 PM)
She is not a real character at all. There is nobody on earth like her.
Um, yes there are women like her. As a matter of fact, a mother was arrested for killing her teenage daughter on Christmas day. There are all kinds of people in this world. A bitchy ex-wife isn't unheard of. -
ntsci — 12 years ago(September 09, 2013 08:03 AM)
Well, the father was being a total idiot Lots of people go to France without being abducted and sold into the sex trade. In fact France on the whole is safer than the US. The fact that he turned out to be right regarding the plot just simply meant that his character apparently knew about the unlikely plot ahead of time. Must have read the ridiculous script, LOL.
Note that there is an international human trafficking trade, but its mostly girls from poor countries that are exploited not tourists from rich countries.
From what I've heard a man is more at risk from the sex trade in Paris. Apparently there's a common scam where a flirtatious lady will invite a man into a back alley bar for a drink, give him a beer, then charge him 600 Euros or even more (typically without even getting sex). I've heard a number of stories about this scam.
RIGOLETTO: I'm denied that common human right, to weep. -
TheCommenteer — 12 years ago(December 07, 2013 08:05 AM)
There's more around than sex traffickingand sending your teenage daughter around Europe alone isn't something people should do lightly, especially for someone with a background like his.
I also like how you seem to think that because something is commonly done this way in this country (according to your reliable sources no doubt), that this is the only potential way it could ever be, that nothing will change and of course that teenagers wouldn't be easy pray for the uncommon events that you seem a little vague on admitting actually happen. -
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keyvenx — 11 years ago(February 16, 2015 06:34 PM)
The girls could have avoided it by "being safe". Their naivete (or stupidity) are largely to blame for it.
If they had been much more cautious - as teens are not wont to do - such things wouldn't have happened.
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torniojaws — 10 years ago(April 12, 2015 08:36 AM)
Western Europe is not a dangerous place like this movie makes it out to be. The most dangerous thing likely to happen to you is pickpocketing, or getting lightly beat up/mugged. But you'll only get beat up if you really attempt to, by going to some very shady neighbourhoods in late nights, despite warnings.
Even ex-Soviet countries can be safe, if you have half a brain about safety and common cons. -
mistershankly — 12 years ago(September 11, 2013 01:10 PM)
Yeah, the mom is really annoying and mean to him, but I think that was the purpose for that character. She was a horribly written stereotype, angry ex-wife who was just there to make Neeson look heroic.
I remember she said something like their daughter needs to travel without her parents to experience what the world is really like. Terrible logic! Thats like allowing her to try drugs or become a prostitute if she wants, otherwise she wont know what it`s like. -
fishingbird — 12 years ago(November 21, 2013 07:29 PM)
Man what a dumb btch And she stayed a dumb btch throughout the whole movie. One of the most unlikable characters I've come across.
If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
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Redart27 — 12 years ago(November 30, 2013 09:52 PM)
Both parents are major failures for not teaching their daughter the most basic of all safety skills - DON'T TALK TO STRANGERS!! Of course, most kids are taught this young, and by Kim's age know,at least, not to give out your address.
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DirectorzCut — 11 years ago(April 02, 2015 03:29 PM)
I was so furious when I watched this. I hate Lenny, she needs to be spanked. It's hard to watch and enjoy the movie with such an idiot character like that. Even the daughter was hard to sympathize with. Did she have ADHD or what?
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Mellow-Fellow — 10 years ago(April 23, 2015 12:18 PM)
I HATED that stupid beep I never really cared for these movies and just happened to catch Taken 3 at my friends the other day kind of half-watching, anyway I was so happy when she got
Killed, I only wish it would have been on screen and more gruesome
it made me remember this first movie. Now that I'm watching the original it really does not seem as great as I once thought it might be. I think I gave it an 8, granted I'm only 30 min in I just had to let out how much I hate that Lenore. I feel like its a 5.5 movie right now, wait til the good parts and the end ill probably give it a 7, didn't age well, but not horribly, just a point I'd say.