Summary Of Bryan Mills's Taken

What would you do if your 17-year-old daughter flies to Paris with another teenaged friend and is kidnapped by Albanian sex traffickers within moments of arriving? Well, if you're retired CIA agent Bryan Mills, you’d go get her. No questions asked. In Taken, that’s the motive. Bryan is the kind of over-protective father who wants to know where you are, what you’re doing, and who you’re with at all times, just to make sure nothing has gone wrong. Against his own judgement, and in the hopes of reuniting with his lost daughter, he allows his her to go on a trip to Paris, per her friend’s request. Her wary father instantly strongly disagrees. But his daughter's enthusiasm and his ex-wife's prodding make him reevaluate his decision, on the condition

Kidnapped by a cartel of Albanian human traffickers, she’s predestined for the horrid life of prostitution and drugging unless her father can track her down in ninety-six hours, or four days, before she “disappears” into the abyss of sex and slavery. However, it starts once the criminals pick up the cellphone, and sarcastically tell him “Good luck” after intimidating them with his words. After flying into the city of love, itself, Bryan Mills uses clues and intrigue from his short conversation with one of her kidnappers to put together clues that eventually point the way to her location, and his hunt for his daughter begins with haste. Using tips from his temporary partner, and French counterpart, Jean Claude, who later turns out to be an unexpected

Denying both laws and morals in his search to find Kim, Bryan is constantly stealing cars, and endangering the lives of innocent civilians. Unbeknownst to Bryan until later in the movie, he discovers Kim’s actual reason for going to Paris: to travel with a band all over Europe, which only her friend and mother knew about this secret. Needing more intel on sex trafficking in Paris, he continues working with his partner, Jean-Claude, who is depicted as a well-heeled bureaucrat whose only concern is for his family's comfort. It's implied that the Frenchman is aware of the sex trafficking going on in Paris, but he's doing nothing to stop it because many of those with whom he works are profiting from it and his job security depends on his passive inaction. His foes are bad, bad men who blatantly destroy women's lives for money. It's not personal, it's just business, one loathsome broker tells Bryan. Therefore, it’s difficult to show any sympathy when Bryan breaks their necks, smashes their throats, stabs them and shoots