Ex-marine turned billionaire CEO Donovan Chalmers (Bruce) hires mercenaries led by Derek Miller (Jesse Metcalfe) to save his scientist daughter Eva (Lala Kent) from a terrorist known as the Pardoner (Sergio Rizzuto), who’s holding her hostage in an effort to force Donovan to reveal a secret code that’ll allow him to use Eva’s cutting edge technology.Īlso watch Survive the Night: When robbers hold a disgraced doctor Rich Clark’s (Chad Michael Murray) family hostage to force him to treat one of the gang, Rich’s dad Frank (Bruce Willis) goes on a rage-fuelled rampage to save the female family members after finding out that the robbers killed his wife. It’s never a good idea to kidnap Bruce Willis’s female family members. Soon the stadium is filled with two teams playing a whole different ball game, with Danni as the ball. With communications with the outside world and the police blocked off, Michael goes on a killing spree, and after the hostage takers investigate his background they retaliate by snatching Danni and using her as leverage for their demands to find Arkady’s brother Dimitri (Pierce Brosnan). Final Scoreįormer US soldier Michael Knox (Dave Bautista) is at a football game in London with his niece Danni (Lara Peake) when Russian mercenary Arkady (Ray Stevenson) and his men infiltrate the football stadium and lock it down with all the football fans inside, including Danni, who’s wandered off to go sit with some boy. Soon this mild-mannered banker is using household objects as weapons, driving over henchmen and swinging a pickaxe with murder in his eyes. Ordinary guy Jack is forced to play along, but tries every trick in his book to undermine Cox before Cox can cover his tracks and leave Jack looking like the thief … if he and his family even live to tell the tale. Shady businessman Bill Cox (Paul Bettany) holds bank chief of security Jack Stanfield’s (Harrison Ford) wife Beth (Virginia Madsen) and kids hostage to force Jack to transfer $100 million from this bank to Bill’s offshore accounts. Roy and his brother Danny (Chris Maher) hop to it to do Julian’s bidding – because, oh, no, not the women! – but when the diamond truck gets hijacked, a family reunion is at stake … at least for the ladies. When mob boss Julian (Quinton “Rampage” Jackson) needs collateral to ensure that MMA fighter Roy (Donald Cerrone) smuggles diamonds to Mexico for him, he kills his girlfriend in front of him and then threatens to do the same to Roy’s brother Joe’s (Chael Sonnen) pretty wife and two daughters. The black market economy works in strange ways. Cue a full-on 1980s-style action movie shoot-up as the bodies stack up like a wood pile. ![]() But when Oklahoma Governor Richard Jeffs (Eric Dane) publicly celebrates the execution of a cartel member, the truce is shattered and the cartel head Cuco (Beau Knapp) kidnaps Doc’s innocent nine-year-old daughter, Dixie (Sofia Bryant) and holds her hostage in exchange for Doc bringing him the governor’s head in a bag. Special Forces operative Doc Alexander (Frank Grillo) is called on to broker a secret truce between the Prado drug cartel and the state of Oklahoma. Try these 10 “Ms Taken” movies… Little Dixie In what other situation would an everyday guy get to throw off his disguise of mild-mannered dad and husband, and run amok threatening and killing people and (if he’s a cop, soldier or secret agent) breaking all the rules … while still being the good guy? This guy is not vulnerable enough to be kidnapped himself (obviously he’d break free with one punch, and that’s too little to make a whole movie about), but he does get called on to be a saviour. ![]() ![]() Kidnapped daughters keep TV and movie cops and dads pretty busy.
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