That's only because Bond smokes a pack a day or some such.Tanksie said:
EDIT: To be fair to you, the character never struck me as being supposed to be a James Bond type super-spy. The Neeson character is supposed to be this powerhouse in hand to hand, that, to someone with the right kind of training, looks really amateurish. He's using a style that was cooked up by their fight choreographer which is designed for soft takedowns, but he's playing a character who's training would have been geared towards hard or crippling takedowns.
Seriously though, compare Taken to Spartan. The violence in Spartan suits the kind of film it is much more than Taken's does. Taken was written by Luc Besson in his characteristic light action way, and Besson might have been able to make it work if he'd been directing it. But, then it goes for a gritty approach that runs contrary to the kind of action that is written. If you're familiar with film terminology, the script is formalistic, the shooting is realistic, and the jarring disconnect between those two is crap.
