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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...coolest thing in Taken lasts about three seconds. We see a guy elude his pursuer by jumping from a highway onto the street below and, as he stands up unhurt, get whacked by a truck that neither he nor the audience saw coming. Kudos to the stunt team for what could be the finest-ever twist on a standard action-movie bit of business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taken: The French Disconnection | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

...felt like a cartoon character who runs away from a pursuer off a cliff edge. I was in a free fall,” she said...

Author: By Liyun Jin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Immigrant Author Finds Home in Books | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

...plot carefully built its tensions right up to a climax that confused a lot of viewers--but that too showed fidelity of the film to its source novel. The Coens' entente with genre conventions earned Oscars for Best Picture, Screenplay and Supporting Actor (for Javier Bardem as the pursuer). Those mulish brothers had proved they knew how to play a game appreciated by the film establishment and the audience; No Country was by far their biggest box-office success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baffled After Seeing | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

...with someone else's ill-gotten gains is maybe not entirely smart or entirely moral. But there's something pure and sweet about the young man, too, and a certain surprising shrewdness about him, too. He keeps managing to stay a lively, often imaginative, step ahead of his implacable pursuer until?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hypnotized by No Country for Old Men | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

...that's just filling in Lecter's curriculum vitae. At the end of the 1999 book, Dr. L had managed to hypnotize or brainwash Clarice, and we were left with the image of the killer and his favorite pursuer ensconced in Buenos Aires as a contented couple. Will the fair damsel snap out of it and escape her lover-tormentor? Maybe she'll unearth his submerged humanity and turn Hannibal into a vegetarian; the fava beans and Chianti would still be on the menu, but not his latest victim's liver. Or, if he's permanently lured Clarice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Becoming Hannibal Lecter | 12/11/2006 | See Source »

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