| Overall: | C+ |
|---|---|
| Violence: | D+ |
| Sexual Content: | C- |
| Language: | C- |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | C- |
| Run Time: | 89 |
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| Video Release: | 12 May 2009 |
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Home Video Extra Features
Home Video Notes: Taken
Release Date: 12 May 2009
Taken releases to DVD in widescreen, with audio tracks in Dolby Digital 5.1 (English) and Dolby Digital Surround (French and Spanish). Subtitles are available in English, French and Spanish.
There is also a Blu-ray edition of Taken. Presented in widescreen, the disc offers audio tracks in DTS HD Master Audio (English) and Dolby Digital 5.1 (French and Spanish), with subtitles in English, French and Spanish.
Both the DVD and Blu-ray versions of Taken provide the following bonus materials:
- Featurettes: Black OPS Field Manual, Le Making Of, Avant Premiere and Inside Action (6 Side by Side Comparisons).
- Audio Commentary: Director Pierre Morel, Cinematographer Michel Abramowicz and Michel Julienne and Writer Robert Mark Kamen.
- Trailers: Wolverine, Street Fighter, 12 Rounds, Notorious and Possession.
- Digital Copy of Taken.
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Rod Gustafson has worked in various media industries since 1977. He founded Parent Previews in 1993, and today continues to write and broadcast the reviews in newspapers, on radio and (of course) on the Internet. He currently serves as the President of the Alberta Association for Media Awareness, a provincial non-profit society. He also authors a regular column for The Parent's Television Council in Los Angeles. He and his wife Donna have four children.
