4. Bryan Mills Needs Information; Shoots Innocent Woman In The Arm - Taken
If you've ever seen Taken, you'll know that it's the movie that birthed the phrase "Hell hath no fury like a former CIA agent/father scorned." The plot centres around a teenage girl, Kim, who finds herself captured and sold into an Albanian sex ring and what her father does when he finds out. And he's no ordinary father, of course. Taken was the movie that set Liam Neeson's current action movie hero phase in motion, and it's not surprising as to see why: though he plays a morally "good" character, the lines are often blurred as he does whatever he takes to find Kim. Of course, the writers had to be very careful with regards to making Bryan Mills - Neeson's overprotective father - too morally grey, because we still have to cheer for this guy, right? Well, no, actually. Although Mills commits lots and lots of highly questionable things over the course of Taken, most of them we can get on board with. It's hard to root for him when - during one scene - he shoots an innocent woman in the arm, though. At dinner, in order to manipulate a former colleague into aiding him, he pops a cap in the man's wife. This part of the movie obviously exists to show how far Mills will go to save Kim, but it also makes him look like a bit of a dick.