Taken created a genre of action films starring older male protagonists. Why are they all men? Because in movies, women still aren’t allowed to take vengeance on behalf of others – they have to be victimised first At this point, the thing that Pierre Morel, Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen created with Taken , and what Liam Neeson gave his shovel-shaped Gaelic face to, has become its own genre …
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Why Liam Neeson's dadsploitation films shut out women