Not long after finishing Austin Powers, my wife comes in. It's beautiful how addicted she gets. When she gets into a series, it's a full-fledged sprint to the finish. I honestly think, if she could, she'd watch every season of 24 without taking a break, just to get to the end.
This is just a long way of saying that we finally finished Taken. So Spielberg (and the cronies that actually filmed this series) didn't screw up. It wasn't a homerun or anything, but they didn't wimp out and make the aliens turn out to be little happy munchkins that just wanted to create a little blond girl. They came, they took Dakota Fanning back to the mothership (where she would remain until her next movie) and left everybody wondering "why?" As in why did this story take 15 hours to tell? Give me one of George Lucas' editors, and I'd have the whole thing down to a trailer.
Overall, it was decent, not great. In the end, it lacked famous people.
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