Just like Ashanti (1979) with Michael Cain

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freemanpatrick7 — 11 years ago(July 17, 2014 07:08 PM)

I didn't realize that Taken was just another Hollywood rip-off
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berichtausinterzone — 11 years ago(January 08, 2015 07:19 PM)

www.imdb.com/board/10078801/?ref_=nv_sr_2
Interesting!
The plots sound similar - have you seen the movie itself ?

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freemanpatrick7 — 11 years ago(January 08, 2015 08:21 PM)

It's on youtube. It's pretty hokie. Michael Caine once said that the film was "the worst, most wretched film I ever made".
In that respect it might be more like Taken 2
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berichtausinterzone — 11 years ago(January 09, 2015 04:01 AM)

thanks! haha, oh well. Maybe I'll make a double feature: ashanti and taken 2 (havent seen it yet).

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schumithecat — 11 years ago(February 15, 2015 05:02 AM)

it can't be worse than that film he made with steven seagal.

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Karl Aksel — 10 years ago(May 02, 2015 10:46 PM)

it can't be worse than that film he made with steven seagal.
I was about to say that. "On Deadly Ground". There was also a god-awful one (which I liked I'm a sucker for bad movies) where Michael plays a journalist or whatever who found himself stranded on a Caribbean island where the descendants of buccaneers still lived the pirate life. That was pretty dreadful, and certainly far worse than Ashanti. I didn't think Ashanti was that bad at all. Not great, but not bad.

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schumithecat — 9 years ago(November 23, 2016 07:09 PM)

I believe you are thinking of The Island (1980), I saw it when I was a kid and it scared me. I'm sure now it would crack me up.