[bribriagain]

I agree. When the opening scene looked like a shameless rip off of Close Encounters, I just switched channels.

[spectre]

"shameless ripoff of Close Encounters"

"Taken" is a "shameless ripoff" combination of most scifi ET and UFO movies. I found myself thinking "hummm, where did I see THAT little scene before?"..was it Close Encounters...was it Independence Day? How about the Outer Limits?

Spielburg isn't original anymore. Especially when he has to plagerize his own movies.

sw