TAKEN

As I sat and watched this movie, I couldn’t believe how into this movie I’d become. This movie by far is one of the greatest movies ever.

It wasn’t until a few days later that I began to really think about this movie and got excited when I could preach the movie. (You know a preacher is always trying to find something in everything to preach)

You have this spoiled little girl Kim who is about 17 years old and she had this father Bryan, who was an ex-CIA agent who was trying his best to establish a relationship with his daughter.

But Kim had this mother Lenore who was married to some rich guy named Stuart, and Lenore wanted her daughter to have the best of everything. So Kim and her mother wanted to meet with Bryan to discuss with him an opportunity for Kim to go to Paris with her friend Amanda and that they needed his parental consent. Now even though Kim lived with her mother, who apparently had custody of her, and this rich man who could have probably used his finances to charter a private jet, they still had to go to the father to get his consent.

Now, the father had some hesitation about this idea, because of the knowledge he had of some of the areas of Paris. Kim tries to explain to her father that she will be with Amanda and her cousins and that they will be visiting museums and that they will be ok. But the father tells her that he will think about it and Kim took that response as a no and got upset.

But because the father wanted to establish a relationship with his child, he signed the consent form, but he had some rules that needed to be adhered to. He said that he needed to take her to the airport, he gave her an international cell phone and said that she is to call when she lands in Paris and that she is to call him and give him the address and phone numbers of places that she would be sleeping at. So Kim is happy again and hugging on her father and smiling and running away excited about the trip.

The father takes the daughter to the airport and when they get the luggage out the car, the father sees a map with all these different cities circled on it and he confronts the mother who then tells him that the daughter and her friend are going to follow U2’s European tour and not just stay in Paris. Now because it’s to late the trip has to go on even though the father was tricked.

The girls get to the French Airport and they meet a boy named Peter, who convinces them, after he takes their picture, to share a cab ride. Peter gets the cab to drop the girls off first, to see where they live and then after they go in, Peter makes a phone call that announces, there are some new girls in town.

So now Amanda and Kim go up to the floor they were staying on and Amanda talks about Peter and how cute he is and asked Kim didn’t she want to sleep with him and Kim responded that she was still a virgin and Amanda responded, that there is no better place to lose your virginity than in Paris.

Bryan is now concerned because he hasn’t heard from his child, of whom he left the instructions to call when you arrived. So he called his child on the phone that he provided, but because the music was too loud she missed the phone call. (She missed the phone call from her father because it was too much noise!)

Kim finally recognized that she had missed a call from her father, and she called him. But, because Amanda was still listening to the music, she had to go to another area to hear the conversation with her father.

Kim is now talking with her father, and she notices on the other side that Amanda is being kidnapped. She tells her father, and because he knows about this type of thing, he tells his daughter what to do. He tells her to go into a bedroom and go under the bed and he tells her to calm down because he had to tell her that she was about to be taken.

So he tells her that when she gets taken to start to yell everything that she sees and hears. The men come into the room and start speaking in a foreign language and then leave. Kim then tells her father, “I think they left”. (I was like, girl …no they are not, because I seen the preview and you are about to get got! Nothing like a preview)

So Kim gets taken, and the kidnapper picks up her phone and just begins to breath in the phone ……and the father says “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 will be the end of it, but if you don’t I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you!! and the kidnapper then replies…GOOD LUCK !

Now because I am tired of typing and I know you are probably tired of reading let me say this – What the father said was so AWESOME to me .

Every now and then when we are confronted with a enemy who has stolen something from us we need to let them know every now and then that the hell you been through, the things God has allowed you to go through was just giving you a set of skills that makes you a nightmare!

Let that enemy know, I know you took something that belongs to me, and I am going to locate it and when I do, I am going to get it, but in the process you have got to die, so you can’t ever mess with me or my family again! Just remember you have a SET OF SKILLS! Don’t back down, you go fight!

In the end, check this out….The daughter wanted to be a singer and her father already had the contacts to introduce her too! So every now and then we just have to trust that the Father has everything we have need of, sometimes we have just got to be patient!

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