Taken is a good action thriller starring Liam Neeson as an ex-CIA agent whose 17 year old daughter gets kidnapped on a trip to Paris with her friend and sold into prostitution. The majority of the movie centers on Neeson who explores the seedy underworld in his attempt so rescue his daughter. We know that he's a father who would do anything to get her back, a fact that is demonstrated several times during the film. The plot is a little obvious, but it's till a fun ride and Liam Neeson is a great actor. If you don't catch this one in the theater, definitely check it out on DVD.
Get Smart was very funny and well cast with Steven Carell as Maxwell Smart, Anne Hathaway, Dwayne Johnson (a.k.a. The Rock), Alan Arkin, Terence Stamp, and James Caan. The movie stayed true to the feel of the old TV series, while updating it for the modern age of technology and audience expectation. It was fun watch Carell fumble around as Agent Smart; I couldn't imagine anyone else in that role. I laughed through the whole movie. I can't believe I didn't see this one in the theater. If you haven't seen it yet, definitely rent it.
Ghost Town was also a good and funny movie starring Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear, and Tea Leoni. Gervais plays a cynical dentist who "dies" on the operating table for seven minutes due to a reaction to the anesthesia during a colonoscopy. When he wakes up he can see the ghosts of people who have passed on that need closure on some aspect of their lives before their spirits can move on to a higher plane. This was a better movie than I thought it would be. If you haven't seen this one add it to your movie queue.
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