1/30/2009. Taken is released.

January 30, 2009.  On this date the movie Taken was released in the United States.  It involves some kidnappers who chose to grab what is clearly the wrong man's daughter.  Liam Neeson became an action hero, playing the retired CIA agent/father who gets quite understandably irritated with the bad guys.

"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."