Taken

I always remember the significance of the cock of the school. I don't know how well used the term is outside of the North of England but it is basically the name of the hardest boy/girl in the school at the time. There would be organised fights involving the cock of the school with the cock of neighbouring schools. Kind of like a teenage fightclub. Obviously this would be more of a hazardous occurrence nowadays as we are told by the Daily Mail that today's teenagers carry knives, guns and thermonuclear devices for use in gang warfare.
In the eighties these fights were very exciting, the buzz would start early morning about an organised fight after school. The anticipation would build to a frenzy that would invariably lead to a disappointing scuffle between two lads who didn't really want to fight in the first place.

I always wondered who the cock of the world would be and last night that question was answered. It is in fact Liam Neeson in 'Taken' who is the hardest man in the world, now we need to arrange a fight between him and the the other cocks in the solar system. He'd win hands down though. He's well hard.

Apart from the violence 'Taken' has nothing else going for it. His daughter is kidnapped by East European (the boogeymen of the 21st century) sex slave gang bangers (i added the bangers) and Liam has to rescue her before she is 'tainted' with drugs or dick. His daughter is the girl who is in 'lost', only she has her hair in a pony tail and runs around like a kid a lot to give us the impression she is a young 17. Personally it just made me less interested in her survival but that's just me being a bit nasty, watch this just for the violence but also admit to yourself that's what you are watching it for.